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CSS Styling
This week we focussed on CSS and how we could get certain parts of our webpage to animate. This code allowed us to hover over the heading and it change size and colour. In my case it changes from black to orange and goes from slim to bold. It also allows the background to change…
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HTML and CSS
For this workshop we were split into smaller groups and taught different things on how to design something using HTML and CSS. First we had to download visual code editor, which allowed us to type in code and view what we were doing live, to see whether it worked. This week we just went over…
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Figma workshop
For this workshop we were taught how to design different things in figma. For example pixel densities, layout grids and wireframes. Pixel densities We were first taught to always design at 1x. Which is the rectangle 1440 x 900px, and is the same aspect ratio as a 13″ Macbook. ‘Pixel density’ is different on different…
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Design patterns
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
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User testing
Evaluative research methods and usability testing Evaluative research and generative research Why conduct evaluative research False-consensus effect When is evaluative research done Test your assumptions Evaluative research Quantitative and qualitative Usability Testing Number of usability tests Bad Questions types Good questions Usability testing situations Guerrilla testing Remote moderated usability testing Introduction During the test don’t…
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The design of everyday things
Donald Norman I read this book and found it very interesting. Norman spoke about design in a very unique way in which he spoke about it without actually having to talk about technology that much. The main thing I took from this book was the seven fundamental design principles that he mentioned. These were: Discoverability…
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Experience website – research
When I first started to think about my website I picked the theme of adventure and decided to design it for the target audience of gamers. I decided this as it links to the website that I analysed before so I felt like I knew more about designing a website for this. First I started…
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Evaluate and iterate
Use industry-standard methods to conduct evaluative UX research into an ecommerce website, and make design recommendations for improvements to the site. For this week we were tasked with just completing the first three tasks which were to choose a website and using standard flowchart notation create an annotated user flow diagram for the site. Referring…
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Production blog
Customise and make regular entries in a WordPress blog to record your project research and development. I logged into my WordPress blog and began to add different entries over the week about what I was doing. This started with the workshop we did at the beginning called friction and delight. I plan on writing every…
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WordPress
For this workshop we went into a mac lab and were told about the basics of wordpress and how we could improve on and design websites with it. Rob left us with some tips on how to create a useful and accessible website as well as what we should do when talking to clients on…