Deliverable 1A: Immersive Prototype https://xd.adobe.com/view/6d04c25c-e5b8-4902-b4d8-006dbd58c3f2-3857/ Deliverable 1B: Responsive Website https://apollo-11-129c70.webflow.io/ Brand Guidelines https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/03/ixd304-brand-guidelines/ Style Tile https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/03/ixd304-style-tile/ …Continue Reading #IXD304 – Deliverable 1A & 1B Submission Blog
#IXD304 – Research and Discovery Blog Submission
TAG – IXD304 Lecture Content & Reflections Week 1 https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/01/ixd304-week-1-introduction-student-examples/ Week 2 https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/01/ixd304-week-2-typography/ Week 3 https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/01/ixd304-week-3-art-direction/ Week 4 https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/01/ixd304-week-4-journeying-immersivity/ Week 6 https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/20/ixd304-week-6-prototype-critique/ Week 9 https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/03/ixd304-week-9-amplifying-data/ Week 10 https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/03/ixd304-week-10-big-motive/ Week 11 + 12 https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/20/ixd304-week-11-12-critique-session/ Research & Discovery 10 Inspiration Mood boards (Article Review) https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/04/ixd304-10-inspirational-mood-boards-article-review/ Initial Mood Boards https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/cormacmccann/2022/03/03/ixd304-initial-mood-board/ How to Choose a Font (Article Review) …Continue Reading #IXD304 – Research and Discovery Blog Submission
#IXD304 Week 6 – Prototype Critique
This week’s critique session was conducted by Kyle & a guest. This is good as it gives me a widened view of my work. I am always looking forward to these sessions as it gives us a chance to look at others to see how their progressing and ultimately confirm strengths and weaknesses posed in…Continue Reading #IXD304 Week 6 – Prototype Critique
#IXD304 Week 11 + 12 – Critique Session
Last week’s class consisted of Kyle coming around to us individually and having a look at our work in the entirety so far. I love these types of critiques as it gives me a chance to properly discuss any issues I am facing. Additionally, it allows me to see and confirm any strengths that I…Continue Reading #IXD304 Week 11 + 12 – Critique Session
IXD304 – Breaking Down Apple’s Immersive Journey
Kyle’s journeying immersively class showed us a great range of different types of narrative immersions built into websites through interactions and various elements to create a story. While I had a look at them and briefly discussed them individually, I want to do a more defined dissection into the one and only; Apple! – The…Continue Reading IXD304 – Breaking Down Apple’s Immersive Journey
IXD304 – Art Direction Article Review
In this blog, I will look at a few articles that Kyle has recommended about Art Direction by Dan Mall and Stephen Hay. I will be covering and reflecting on the articles while also giving my own opinion on such material. In a 2010 blog post on Alistapart, Dan Mall talks about the chaotic nature…Continue Reading IXD304 – Art Direction Article Review
IXD304 – Cindy Chastain – Thinking Like a Storyteller
In the world of interaction design, storytelling is a fundamental aspect of communication. It can introduce users to information and help navigate through design to create an informative experience. In this video that Kyle has recommended to us, Cindy Chastain will talk about the understanding of narrative techniques which can help me as a designer…Continue Reading IXD304 – Cindy Chastain – Thinking Like a Storyteller
IXD304 – 10 Inspirational Mood boards – Article Review
One thing to kick my inspiration off starting my Apollo project is to create a storyboard. However, I wanted to find new innovative techniques and ways to create and visually manifest a proposed identity for my new project. Thankfully, Kyle has shared with us an article to read by Tony Ho Tran which delves into…Continue Reading IXD304 – 10 Inspirational Mood boards – Article Review
#IXD304 – Brand Guidelines
Apollo L2L Brand Guidelines I have decided to create a set of brand guidelines for my Apollo 11 project. This will help me create a standard of communicative design in my project as I am trying not only to convey a sense of story and journey but also a unique experience that my brand can…Continue Reading #IXD304 – Brand Guidelines
#IXD304 Week 9 – Amplifying Data
This week’s lecture gave us a look into the world of data and how it can be shaped to provide a story or a sense of progression in today’s products. Data helps us understand a depth of a problem, it confirms the factuality of a sequence, without data everything is an assumption. Data storytelling can communicate…Continue Reading #IXD304 Week 9 – Amplifying Data