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Essay briefing
Evaluating user-centred design For this project we had to write a 3000 word essay we were told to: Word count includes: User-centred design means the needs wants and limitations of users, and it is an approach not a process. Topics to follow are: Produce a written report that identifies and evaluates three case studies, for…
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Websites and apps
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…
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Design for good – generative research
Design for good. For this project we were briefed to design a product/ service. Briefing When we were briefed we were told about design thinking to emphasise, define, ideate, prototype and test. We would need supporting documents on Miro board with screenshots, mind maps, user flow diagrams and user journey maps. We also got taught…
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User tests – script
To test the website I was creating I did some user tests to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the website. Within this script I asked them to do a task to test whether they can navigate through the website easily. I also asked them questions about their experience at the end so I could…
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Magpie studio talk
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…
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Experience website – wireframes
Black and white wireframe I did low fidelity wireframes first. For this I first looked at how websites usually construct themselves. I noticed that the front pages had a lot of images and very little text so I tried to mirror this. I found out that other websites do this because it doesn’t overwhelm the…
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Fonts
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
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Website Building
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…
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Greg Quinton
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…
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Figma workshop 2
For this workshop we were introduced to some more advanced parts of figma and how to use them. We were taught about how to use components, variables and frames to get the results that we wanted. We were taught how to make these different experiences that we could put into our website. Toggle First we…