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IXD104- Week 4 Reflect

This week, we looked further into illustrating and how to illustrate for UI. For user interfaces, illustrations can provide a quick way to get a message across that doesn’t involve text. For example, a weather app may have an illustration of clouds and rain rather than plain text telling you what the weather is. Not…Continue Reading IXD104- Week 4 Reflect

IXD104- More Illustration Research…

I have continued my research looking into different people and styles to increase my inspiration for illustrating. Olly Moss Olly Moss is a designer and Illustrator. His Instagram and website display his work and I found some styles I really like. These are some posters he designed for the game Firewatch. He also helped design…Continue Reading IXD104- More Illustration Research…

IXD104- Recreating City Illustrations

This week, we were given the task of recreating some illustrations of cities. These are my results: Original: My Recreation:   Original: My Recreation:   I really enjoyed doing this task as it has helped me become more familiar with the tools on figma. I used techniques I had never done before and learnt a…Continue Reading IXD104- Recreating City Illustrations

IXD104- My Travel App Content Research

The idea of my app is that the user can virtually “travel” through different deserts, learning about the types and what wildlife live there. To gain more of an understanding on the topic of ‘Deserts’, I wanted to do some in-depth research. What are deserts? A desert is a vast, arid area of land that…Continue Reading IXD104- My Travel App Content Research

IXD104- My Travel App Research and Inspiration

Mind Map My idea Of these ideas, the one that interests me the most is the educational one about the desert. The general idea for this is that you travel through the desert through the app, learning about animals, types of deserts etc. I chose this because I have an interest in wildlife and I…Continue Reading IXD104- My Travel App Research and Inspiration

IXD104- Week 2 Reflect

This week, we looked deeper into icon design. “Trying to capture the essence of an object or idea with only a few lines and at the same time maintaining its elegance is pretty much design in a nutshell. That’s what’s so great about icons, they’re tiny poems” – Kyle Tezak Why use icons? Designing icons…Continue Reading IXD104- Week 2 Reflect

IXD104- Illustrator Research

I decided to research some illustrators for inspiration for my travel app. Rogie King Rogie is a designer, artist, illustrator, and a designer advocate at Figma. After looking further into his work, his illustrations really caught my attention. I feel that these can really inspire me for my travel app and other future projects. I…Continue Reading IXD104- Illustrator Research

IXD104- Week 1 reflect & icon task

We got a brief on what the image and data visualisation module would involve. Overall, it focuses on the fact that images can be used to communicate. “A picture is worth a thousand words”. I found it interesting that we can read pictures in a way and everyone will interpret them in different ways. Therefore,…Continue Reading IXD104- Week 1 reflect & icon task