Category: IXD301

While these methodologies have major differences, each project management methodology has the same goal: to further the completion and success of projects. Therefore, each methodology helps manage a team’s working processes with structure and communication. Where they differ is the implementation. For the purposes of my IXD 301 work I will be using the Agile…Continue Reading Agile vs. Waterfall vs. Kanban vs. Scrum IXD301/302

It is the final week in term and we have to present and critique our work. My prototype was not completely functional at this point of the project as I had planned to work over the Christmas break. The feedback I got about my designs however was very useful. During the process, I had become…Continue Reading Week 12 IXD301 Critique & User testing

I began by experimenting with some ideas to try and figure out how I was going to integrate the elements of the periodic table into my app, I wanted to build on the knowledge that children would already have such as spelling a numbers challenges within the app and sprinkle the elements into the app…Continue Reading Week 11 IXD301 Experiments with challenges

  Continuing with the thought that I was simple characters within my app I decided a Humpty dumpty style character would really work, I knew I could relate to what kids already knew and also give these characters elemental names as can be seen on the right. I decided this idea didn’t really work as…Continue Reading Week 10 IXD301 Character Development

I began turning my logo sketches into high-fidelity versions. I turned my designs into app icons in order to see them in their natural environment. I based them on research. As the project is space-themed I begin by researching some existing brands that fall under the categories children would enjoy.         Typically…Continue Reading Week 9 IXD301 Branding and competitor research

In order to gather some hard user data, I emailed local schools with my questionnaire attached with the instructions to post my google form onto their Facebook page to try and get parents from varying backgrounds to give me no-sensitive information on their children’s devices habits and access to learning materials. This made me nervous…Continue Reading Week 8 IXD301 User research

We had a task set to organize data from the periodic table and find relationships. To begin this task I had to take data in this format H Hydrogen 1 Diatomic Nonmetal 1 s 1.008 1766 and discover what each meant first of all in order to arrange them on a spreadsheet. I already knew…Continue Reading IXD 301 Data Organization

This week we received our final critique on our portfolio sites. I was asked to insert a background image to break up the white space a little on my landing page. Instead of this, I decided to make the text larger as I could not get an image I wanted to sit correctly, This was…Continue Reading Week 7 IXD301: Critique

This week was another personal tutorial session for the students. to help iron out some aspects of their portfolios. I submitted mine via email as I felt it wasn’t fair to expect an in-depth dive into my portfolio giving the fact that there are so many to get through. I was given some really good…Continue Reading Week 6 IXD301: Submition for feedback.

This week was used primarily as a personal tutorial class to help people with Webflow issues. I personally had not come across any major issues that I couldn’t fix with a few google searches. I don’t normally bring my laptop into class as it’s large and a little bit of a hindrance, but now as…Continue Reading IXD 301 Week 5 Tutorials and personal reading