As my pitch is more geared towards charity fundraisers I took a little time to research how to present a non-profit pitch. I found the following guide particularly helpful. Are you a Non-Profit looking for Funding? Here’s a guide to creating an effective pitch deck  Some interesting points and key takeaways were as follows: The […]

Mood Board I began branding my product by first researching other charities and considering names around the theme of helping the homeless. I then started to consider the fact that the primary aim of my system is to deal with the problem of cashlessness. I, therefore, started to consider names relating to the donations points […]

As demonstrated during our lecture this week by a number of us standing at the front of the room, giving a presentation and even just standing in front of an audience can be a pretty daunting experience. However, we were given some advice on how to tackle those nerves. The first bit of advice was […]

In this weeks workshop, we formed groups and each selected an approach to help us generate new ideas. Our group selected brainstorming. As we attempted to come up with ideas we began to struggle and decided to add the associations approach into our brainstorming session. We used a random word generator to help us do […]

This week we began looking at our product pitch. The primary focus is this weeks lecture was on idea generation to help us come up with ideas for our products. The following options were provided to help to get an understanding of what our products could be. Web Site (Something Substantial) Native Application (Phone, Watch…) […]

Mood Board When considering how to design my invoice I decided to begin by gathering some inspiration from Pinterest and Dribbble, shown above. As I am currently freelancing I do currently have an invoice template. However, as I have now updated my portfolio website and made some changes to my brand e.g. removing the wordmark […]

To begin my research I began by looking at a guide on how to create an invoice. A post I found particularly helpful was How to write an invoice: what to include in an invoice template by Sam Bromley. Bromely breaks the stages of creating an invoice template into the following steps. Make your invoice […]

I decided to design my cover page on a grid as shown above. I also added a purple highlight line beneath Hill Street inspired by the yellow highlight line used on the IDEO website homepage shown below.  I was pleased with how well I was able to incorporate the highlight line in my cover page […]

In my wireframes I have taken the information and inspiration I have gathered from Visual Grammar and my mood board of examples of proposal document layouts to create a series of potential format outcomes. In the above wireframes, I experimented with scale and attempted to produce balances and formal formats. I also wanted to consider […]

This week we had a guest lecturer, Ronan, who spoke to us about the design industry. This was a really great lecture as it provided a clear overview of the fundamental differences between UX and UI, what it’s like working for a large company vs a small company and what the differences are between working […]