This weeks lecture was all about icons and their uses. Icons where going to play a huge role in our travel app, as they where going to be the way a client/user would navigate throughout our app. To start us off we where showed some examples of good designers to look at. Each of the…Continue Reading IxD 104 – Icons – Week 2
During week 6 we group critique and feedback on our travel apps we had been working on. We had to display 3 or more screens of our app so far and show it on miro, everyone was asked to put a post-it note under everyone’s app and write what we liked and what we feel…Continue Reading IxD 104 – App Critique
Style Guide – The Physical or digital document that represents the styles, patterns, practises and principles of a deign system and teaches how to use it. Pattern Library – An organised set of related, reusable components, often containing code examples, design guidelines and use cases. Components – A self-contained and reusable pattern that represents a…Continue Reading IxD 103 – Style Guides
This week we had a short lecture on brand guidelines before our brands critiques. So, what are brand guidelines? Brand guidelines are simply an instruction manual and rule book on how to communicate your brand. They lay out all the visual details, as well as important notes about the company’s voice, tone, and messaging. We…Continue Reading IxD 103 Brand Guidelines
In Mid March we had to present our final brand to a group within the class, I was personally excited and nervous as I personally a shy person when it comes to talking to groups of people. I presented my work to a group of 5 people and Daniel, we all shared our brands and…Continue Reading IxD 103 – Week 7 Brand Critiques
Business Cards On week 6 we talked about the application of our brands and where they could be applied, we had to make business cards. These where some initial outcomes I had made for the business cards, they are subjected to changed in the future. This business card was used as a test bed to…Continue Reading IxD 103 – Business Card
Week 5’s lecture was about colour, it’s applications, and how we could use colour to express our brands. We looked at tools we could use to pick and use colours for our brand and to keep a consistency in the colour we used. Daniel started by showing us the the different types of printing press…Continue Reading IxD 103 – Colour
Sketching I started out with mind map to gather my interests and ideas for my Visual mark, I continued to go with the Japanese Aesthetic. The outcome was a mixture of finalised designs, I went for a full Japanese aesthetic to compliment my interest in Japanese culture. The main 2 striking colours…Continue Reading IxD 103 – Visual Mark Design
Visual Mark Research I looked at a generalised Visual marks designs on Pinterest for an understanding on them. I then looked at a more specific area being Japanese styled Visual marks, I did this as it fell in line with the travel app I was doing in my other module and also because I have…Continue Reading IxD103 – Visual Marks Research
Monograms Part 2 After looking back at my first monogram designs I decided to change some things up, I felt I could remove some of the simplicity in the design while keeping it fairly simple. It design outcome was the M and G merged, the first attempts left the G looking more like a Cyrillic…Continue Reading IxD 103 – Monogram Designs 2