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Portfolio Brand Guidelines These set of guidelines are implemented as a set of rules and standards that tell me how I will communicate my brand and all of the elements on my website such as colour, typography, media, etc. It helps layout all the visual details with the addition of containing my original tone of…Continue Reading IXD301 – Portfolio Guidelines

  Site Map Site maps provide a structure and a set of arrangements to the basis of my website ultimately allowing for a more navigatable site and an overall vision of my site’s goals and purposes. It displays all of the pages that consist inside of a domain/website and often uses a hierarchical structure. For…Continue Reading IXD301 – Site Mapping & Content Audit

To start the semester off, Kyle has given us a seemingly relatively simple task to complete which involves looking up keywords for our personal portfolio website in Google Trends. In order to get the most accurate statistics, I will be looking at the data from the start of Jan 2020 with the location set to…Continue Reading IXD301 – Google Trends

For one of today’s class tasks, we got to create two user jobs stories. At first, I was slightly confused at what was being asked even after watching a video about it. When I got home, however, I decided to do a little extra research into what it is about. I quickly understood the sequences….Continue Reading IXD301 Week 2 – User Job Story

Today’s class Kyle was preparing us both mentally, physically and intellectually for our upcoming presentation in a week’s time. This lecture will talk about how to structure, guide and present presentations with a few tricks and tips to stay in tune during it. This is a great experience for me as if I’m being honest…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 10 – The Art of the Pitch

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