Year: 2021

Ixd103 Week7: Brand guidelines research task

During this weeks lecture time we were given the task of choosing a brand we like and compiling brand guidelines for it, as a means of practice before we start compiling our own. For this I chose my one of my favourite brands, Nintendo. I had already established things like their values and tone of…Continue Reading Ixd103 Week7: Brand guidelines research task

IXD104 Week 7: Lecture Reflection

This week’s lecture was all about visualising data. We looked at diagrams, visualisations and how data is really everywhere if you just take a look around you you’ll see it. We also looked at some different designers who are know for their data visualisation like David McCandless, Brendan Dawes and Giorga Lupi. In this lecture…Continue Reading IXD104 Week 7: Lecture Reflection

IXD103 Week 7: Lecture Reflection

Brand Guidelines This week’s lecture was all about brand style guidelines which are essentially rulebooks that explain how an organisation presents itself to the world through its design programme. It’s a tool that helps maintain consistency throughout the brand especially when you have different people and departments working with it. We also looked at the…Continue Reading IXD103 Week 7: Lecture Reflection

Ixd103: Word mark Research and Development

Research I first went and had a look at the pages on word marks in my “Designing Brand Identity” book by Alina Wheeler to give me a bit more insight into word mark design. I also looked at the section on typography while I was at it because I feel that that sort of ties…Continue Reading Ixd103: Word mark Research and Development

IXD103 Week 6: Lecture Reflection

Application  Before getting into the lecture content we uploaded our Pizzeria Branding Tasks to padlet for critique. There wasn’t enough time to get to mine but it was really cool to see what everyone else had come up with. Here is a link to my blog post on the task: https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/laurabfoy/2021/03/01/ixd103-week5-pizzeria-branding-task/ After that we went into…Continue Reading IXD103 Week 6: Lecture Reflection

IXD103 Week5: Pizzeria Branding Task

What’s my brand? For this task I went a pre-existing and familiar (to me) brand, Pat’s Pizza in Donegal. So far Pat’s has three locations in Donegal. Two of these are casual takeaway Pizza places but the other, Pat’s on the Square offers a more high end, expensive, classic Italian dining experience and its branding…Continue Reading IXD103 Week5: Pizzeria Branding Task

IXD104 Week 5: Lecture Reflection

We’re having a group critique next week on our first 3 travel app screens so it made sense that this week ‘s lecture was all about tying everything things together app wise. We first looked at all the principles of user interface. We also looked at important things to consider like touch screen target sizes…Continue Reading IXD104 Week 5: Lecture Reflection

IXD104 : Developing my first 3 travel app screens

Research I learned a lot about interfaces from week 4’s lecture. I would still have to do some research before developing my travel app screens though. I started by looking at the anatomy of different app components and when to use them on material.io. This gave me a good understanding of what bars, buttons, menus…Continue Reading IXD104 : Developing my first 3 travel app screens

IXD103 Week 5: Lecture Reflection

Digitising Monograms Before we went into the lecture content we were given a quick illustrator demo and tasks with digitising our monograms (and word marks if there was time). We were given the afternoon to work on this and then we all came back and uploaded what we did to padlet for critique. Here is…Continue Reading IXD103 Week 5: Lecture Reflection

IXD104 : Designing my travel app icons

Since I want my app to have a fun and playful feel to it, I thought I would try to incorporate cute faces into my icon designs. Based on my initial sketches for my travel app I decided that I would include icons spread across the bottom of the screen for the five main sections…Continue Reading IXD104 : Designing my travel app icons