Learning Promotional Strategy In this weeks lecture we looked at creating a promotional strategy to help us promote ourselves as designers. We looked at how helpful social media can be in this context, a great example that came to mind was Instagram and how we create our own design Instagram accounts back in our first…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 6 – Promotional Strategy

What is Content Sources? Content source is a repository of all text elements that are used in, or to create content. Think of all the content types you manage, documents, web site pages, images, graphics, video, etc. Most content is managed in proprietary management systems designed for each asset type. Content can come in lots…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 2 – What is content? Where does it come from?

Prologue What we learnt in this lecture; Visual Grammar Language and Typography Narrative Design What is Visual Grammer? Visual grammar provides a way to describe and communicate features of an image. It is practically a set of rules and practices, a definition from Christian Leborg; The reason for writing a grammar of visual language is the…Continue Reading IXD301 Week 2 – Visual Grammar and Language

Prologue When looking for ideas on how to actually make my branding for the app I spent time looking at the periodic table and trying to make words out of the elements within. I was having no luck at first until I came across a website called ChemSpeller. This app was a lifesaver, it was…Continue Reading IXD 301 – Elements Project – Branding

Prologue After getting the one on one feedback with Kyle, I began to make the changes. Most of the changes where mainly smaller details or move text slightly, it was all about consistency. As Kyle said to me, it’s called “sweating out all the details”, as he explains to me that even the smallest changes…Continue Reading IXD 301 – Elements Project Changes

The Drafts The first attempts at making the UI for the app, these are practically mockups for the app to showcase the UI and how the app would look and behave. I got a one to one feedback session with Kyle on the app should feedback I recieved from him will also be included.  …Continue Reading IXD 301 – Elements Project First Draft and Feedback

What are user scenarios? They are a description of why users have come to the website, app, etc. It will include their specific goals and the journey they take to reach them. Why are they important? User scenarios are important as they let you get to know your user and their specific goals, with this…Continue Reading IXD 301 – User Scenarios

Overview Now that I am concrete idea in place and I have interview my friends (users), I know have a basis on what to make my user peronas on. For the purpose of accessibility I will make the peronas as fictional characters with fictional needs/goals based on what my users told me during interviews. I…Continue Reading IXD 301 – Elements Project – User Peronas

The Users Before I even start making User Peronas for my Elements project, I need to actually talk to my target audience to gain insight in their needs/goals. Luckily I have wide range of people to ask, I went up to the Coleraine Campus and I asked some of friends who study Pharmacy questions related…Continue Reading IXD 301 – Elements Project – User Research

Reasoning Just like with the Portfolio Website project, I am back to colour consideration. What sort of colour palette do I want for my app? I feel brighter colours would be a better option this time around compared to my website. The reason being, I am use Tinder as my base. Tinder uses bright colours,…Continue Reading IXD 301 – Elements Project – Colour Consideration