In my opinion this lecture was the most useful lecture of the year so far. Stink studios is a creative design and technology company. Their mission is to elevate the way people interact with brands through design that is beautiful, purposeful and entertaining. They believe that strategy and execution go hand in hand. Thee Stink…

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What is the difference between websites and apps?Native apps are built for specific software Web apps are like HTML, CSS and JS Hybrid apps use both sets of code Traditional software it what apps are based on, they are installed and run on a device, they must be written for specific operating systems and can…

This talk was from two female designers: Katherine and Lily who work on Magpie studio, ones a junior designer ones a senior designer. They were really interesting to listen to as they gave lots of advice and spoke about how to make your name more known and what we can do as women to make…

Typographic semiotics and grapheme synethsesia  Why fonts matter – book – Sarah hyndman  What is a typeface?  Truth is not font dependent but can subconsciously influence us to believe that a sentence is true Context Matters Cultural and demographic context also matters 

Ask for design for desktop and mobile  Adaptive designs Breakpoint  The viewport (screen)-width or in pixels at which an adaptive website design switches to a different size. These are set by the designer, and controlled in the code by css media queries Most website builders will handle this for you to some extent Best practices…

We had a lecture from Greg Quinton who spoke to us about his work, experiences and gave us some advice on how to create interesting and useful designs. I really enjoyed Greg’s talk because I found it incredibly inspiring and interesting. He mixed his talk with lots of different images, videos and inspirational quotes which…

Website patterns For the beginning of this workshop we looked at different patterns with designing a website and which ones might be more useful than others. Z-shaped pattern  F-shaped pattern  Layer cake pattern  Other patterns  Avoid f-shape pattern  Home page Navigation  Menu icons