IxD301 – My Portfolio site so far… I am really happy with how my portfolio turned out. There are some minor adjustments that I need to adjust. I am excited to keep broadening my site, through adding ongoing projects. My site Youtube walkthrough of my site I am really loving using WebFlow and feel that […]
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Week 4 – IxD301 – Rerun of HTML and CSS
Week 4 – IxD301 Rerun of HTML and CSS Today we went through the basics of HTMLs and CSSs, something that we covered during first year. This rerun has been really useful and refreshed my memory on all of the things we learnt before. This year however, we have focused our interest a lot more […]
IxD301 – Site Mapping / User Journey Mapping
IxD301 – Site Mapping / User Journey Mapping A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site within a domain. A user flow map can help designers (and their teams or clients) stay user-centered, even when mapping out complex processes. As a designer, you can use user flow diagrams to decide how […]
IxD301 – User Research
IxD301 – User Research WHY USER RESEARCH IS ESSENTIAL!! User research provides an essential foundation for design strategy. It helps you to create an optimal product for users. Most importantly, you’ll have the data to back your strategy and design decisions. User research also helps you to identify early adopters who would use your product. […]
IxD301 – ELE
IxD301 – ELE After reviewing a lot of different ideas I have been having for the elements project, I realised after a discussion with my sister, who is 17 years old, just after completing her GCSEs and found chemistry to be her most difficult subject. I realised that I felt the same when I was […]
IxD301 – My exploration of ideas
IxD301 – My exploration of ideas I have had quite a few ideas for the elements project. As always I start generating ideas with some sketches and bubble maps. I then went Post-It note crazy and wrote down all of the words that come to mind whenever I think of “Elements”. I find these to […]
IxD301 – Exploration of the new brief
IxD301 – Exploration of the new brief Our latest project for IxD301 is called “The Elements Project”. We have been asked to present five of the elements, designing them along with a home section. It can be either a webpage, tablet/mobile device or even something that doesn’t exist yet. It is very important to remember […]
IxD302 – Week 7 – Talk with Ronan Mc Kinless
IxD302 – Week 7 – Talk with Ronan Mc Kinless During our week 7 lecture, Daniel got a little break and we Ronan McKinless, Lead of UX at Octopus Energy, came to speak to us and give us advice about placement and which roles would be the best to apply for. Ronan’s views were very […]
Ulster Museum Visit – Elements
To gather some inspiration for our latest project, I decided to take a trip across botanic to see the elements exhibition currently located in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. I had a really interesting experience and took time to read all of the facts and information on display. Typography inspiration The museum has some really […]
IxD301 – Portfolio site wireframes & mock-ups
IxD301 – Portfolio site wireframes and mock-ups I have decided to dedicate this blog post to wireframes. I love creating wireframes and think they are great for when designing a site. This blog post will contain a couple of series of wireframes I have created for my own portfolio site. As I keep updating and […]