A Project Guide to UX Design by Ross Unger and Carolyn Chandler User Interviews Ross Unger and Carolyn Chandler describe user interviews as structured conversations with potential users of your site, or in my case product. A factor that should be considered when conducting an interview is the environment. Will interview take place over the […]

One of the tasks in class this week was to organise raw data taken from the periodic table. Above is the table I produced in Excel using the raw data provided. I organised it into 8 columns: Symbol Element Name Atomic Number Classification Group Orbitals Atomic Weight Year Discovered I added a filter to the […]

Overall I am very pleased with the final outcome of my portfolio website. During a feedback session, it was advised that I left align my section text in my Case Studies. I have since made this amendment and am happy that I have increased the readability of my Case Study pages. During my interviews, I […]

The promotional task set for this week was to create a series of promotional stories and a promotional post for Instagram. The primary focus was to tell the story of our work. It was advised that a good place to start could be our portfolios. I decided to move forward with this as I have […]

Purple Cow is a book written by Seth Godin on the importance of being remarkable. This is a fairly high standard to reach for but he does offer some helpful tips along the way. The first tip that jumped out to me was inviting the user to change their behaviour to make a product dramatically better. […]

This week 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. As designers, we can use social media to help us tell the stories behind our brands and design work. When used effectively social media can help us […]

I have some experience using Webflow however I always struggled with creating consistent page structures and making top nav’s. I found the tutorial we received in class particularly helpful. I didn’t quite keep up but did my best to follow the steps throughout the demo, see above outcome. I have applied the same method to […]

Content Strategy for Mobile by Karen McGrane looks at why it is not only important to design and build mobile-friendly websites but also why it is important to make a content strategy specifically aimed at mobiles and other platforms. I have outlined some of the content that jumped out to me in this book below. […]

Learning Responsive Web Design To begin my recap of responsive web design I began my reading Learning Responsive Web Design, A Beginner’s Guide by Clarissa Peterson. My understanding of responsive design before reading Peterson’s book was that responsive design incorporates new design parameters and styling at certain width points so that a series of changes […]

While I have already created brand guidelines for my brand I have made some changes since their creation e.g. removing the wordmark from my logo. I, therefore, decided to create the above visual style used to create my portfolio website. The information included on my monogram was as follows: The monogram included in the Rachels […]