Year: 2021

For today’s class, Kyle presented us with additional ways we can cater and design towards our users through studying their behavior, actions and motives when interacting with our work. As I have mentioned before, as a designer we must be aware that we are not designing for ourselves, rather we are designing for a collective…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 9 – Usability Testing

 What is content strategy and its purpose?  Content strategy is the methodology of planning, creation, delivery and governance of content in both visual and typographical form. This ensures that the content strategist’s work is highly structured, relevant, accessible and useable creating a higher quality user experience. One of the examples of content strategy and organization…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 8 – Content Strategy, Design and User Personas

For today’s class, we learned about creating a story through self-advertisement on various platforms to promote me and my work. Social Storytelling  Everyone is a storyteller, we tell stories in everyday life whether it’s talking about a funny situation or describing a brand new gadget you want; we all unconsciously tell stories. Through this process,…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 6 – Promotional Strategy

For today’s class, it was a critique of our deliverable 1 portfolios. Kyle created a Miro board along with custom set boxes for each of us to comment on. This was a good chance to see how Kyle and other classmates think of my portfolio website so far allowing for them to share and review…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 7 – Portfolio Critique Session

In today’s class, Kyle gave us an overview of our new project involving the periodic table and its elements. I’ve seen some of the work last year and was curious about when it will come up.   So firstly, we have to remind ourselves, what is the periodic table? Obviously, nearly every adult knows what…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 7 – The Elements Brief

These classes involved more HTML & CSS with more emphasis on responsive web design. This is one of the obstacles that I am facing as I am new to this kind of stuff so I decided to do some exterior research to help me create a functioning responsive website. First of all what is responsive…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 4/5 – Responsive Web Design

This was a very refreshful class by Kyle about all the basics of HTML & CSS. Everything from tags, headings, links, parameters, etc was covered in today’s class. More importantly, we went over responsive web design which is one thing I am worried about as my previous website failed to consist of these principles. As…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 4 – HTML/CSS and Website Building

For today’s class, we got to see other students’ portfolios (mock-ups) so far. This was great as I could see how everyone was getting on. Even better the class commented on each other’s work both construct and critical feedback as it was necessary to identify what is going well and not so well.   Before…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 3 – Portfolio Mock-Up Feedback

UX Work Flow We began the lesson on a basic UX workflow diagram,  as I need structure to get more clarity I decided to note down each section and some of its involvements.      1. Discover(y) Portfolios discovery and research Content Audits Trends (Google Trends) Likes/Dislikes of other portfolios Inspiration Portfolios      2….Continue Reading IXD301 Week 2 – What is Content?