Alanna Lee McKenna's IXD blog Posts

Jakob Nielsen Jakob Nielsen, co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, is an interaction designer that specialises in the usability of the web and was named ‘guru of web page usability’…

An experiment with 3 letter A’s, 2 black and 1 white.

Building on my knowledge of typography, during class we looked at punctuation, typeface for screen and delved further into the anatomy of type. We looked at the differences between: Prime…

Degenerate Art During Adolf Hitlers rule, modernist art, many from internationally renound artists, were taken down from museums and galleries around Germany as they were believed to be an ‘insult…

For 101, our second project was to design a poster for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights using the previous knowledge we had obtained from previous unit such as point,…

Colour Theory The first known theory of colour was developed by Aristotle. He believed that colour was sent down by God through celestial rays of light, that they came from…

My first project of the year began with learning terms that were new to me like point, line and plane. After some research and sketch drawings using these new terms,…

Ancient Art Around the world, images have been found carved, painted and drawn on cave walls and rocks which is believed to show the beginning of communication among humans. The…

For our first project in IXD102, we were tasked with creating a type specimen screen based on a font of our choosing from a list of 6. I almost chose…