Designing a responsive landing page I’ve been using grids as a graphic and web designer, however I hadn’t delved in deeply to the concept of designing on a responsive grid as we did in this week’s content. As I’ve been transitioning from using Elementor [Wordpress] to Webflow, I’ve been encouraged to consider breakpoints over several …
Visual identity sprint As a brand designer in my day-to-day job, creating a brand identity is something I enjoy. Capturing the personality of a project and tailoring the aesthetics to the intended audience is always a fun challenge. Working collaboratively with stakeholders and engaging in industry research is key to creating a long-lasting, strategicly placed …
Where I’m at This week I’m at the stage of usability testing my low-fi prototype. In theory low-fidelity prototypes allow the user to test the interaction flow without a vast expenditure of time or resources (Hannah 2021). In practice I believe that I spent too long trying to ‘perfect’ my low-fidelity prototypes as I was …
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Designing the browsing experience My second round of interviews was very much helpful in helping me prioritise the information architecture of the Wastevine homepage, my goal was to find out how students search for and categorise materials. The user we’re designing for is: A designer-maker seeking to reduce waste in their work / studies. The …
“Information architecture is a set of concepts that can help anyone making anything make sense of any mess… caused by not enough, or too much information” (Covert 2015) Covert’s book ‘How to Make Sense of Any Mess’ introduces the reader to the concept of information architecture (IA) simplifying examples down to what we see in …
On Design Workshops & Critique This week we were introduced to the ‘Design Studio Methodology’: Design Studio is usually an in-person workshop with a diverse selection of team members, with the goal of generating and critiquing ideas, then converging towards a solution. There are many different flavors of design studio workshops and everyone has their …
Defining the user story The concept I’m working on for this module is based on a need that considers a triangulation of stakeholders: I’ll be focusing on the user journey from the buyer’s perspective, as they will be the key users of the product, they are the design students who I interviewed last week. This …
This week in the Falmouth University forum we were asked to define empathy as a designer. It was supposed to be just a quick Q & A, but I went off on a tangent… We were asked: So what is empathy? Why is it important for UX designers to try to understand why their users …
For this three month module titled ‘UX Design’ we’ll be creating a digital product from research & ideation through to testing and prototyping. We were tasked with defining a brief last week. I decided that I’d like to work on a live brief, so I turned to one of my communities of practice – Climate …
This week Clemantine shared a video on a topic that many creatives grapple with, the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Of course the message can apply to those in any industry, but from my perspective it’s particularly pertinent for those in the creative industries. Ira Glass makes the point …