Category: Practical Exercises
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Post 02: High-Fidelity Mobile App
When I was starting off my high-fidelity prototype, I picked out a photo that I thought was aesthetically appealing enough but not overcrowded in a way that takes away from the rest of the page. I used this photo near the top of each page to break up the flatter colours and add some texture…
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Post 01: Design Style Guide (PDF)
When creating my logo I had a simplistic design in mind to fit in with the simplistic design I wanted for my app layout as I felt a big and complex design would look out of place and therefore draw the user’s eyes to a less important part of the page. To start I picked…
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Post 03: Design Reflection
When researching for the design process, I discovered how an app or website must both be aesthetically pleasing and practical as I found many websites that didn’t get used simply because of bad visual design decisions but its functionality was easily useable and vice versa which encouraged me to research websites that had failed in…
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Post 02: Low-Fidelity Prototype
When creating my early sketches, I had already been looking at inspiration which caused most pages to be quite similar to what I ended up refining into a high-fidelity prototypes. Due to most layouts I had seen and taken interest in being imagery heavy, my designs had been quite similar with heavy amounts of images…
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Post 01: Design Elements
When researching other examples of UI to take inspiration from, I found myself drawn to UIs that had more focus on images than information as while doing my research on other art museum websites and apps, the biggest flaws I found was that that heavy amount of information was often overwhelming. I also preferred UI…
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Post 03: UX Design Statement
For my gallery, I have chosen one that will present older works such as baroque to mix the arts and history as I personally think they go hand in hand and aid within each other’s research. A common problem I have seen in art galleries so far is how they’re either very vague with information…
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Post 02: User & Market Research
The York Gallery website is overall clear, content rich and functional with a simplistic and traditional structure. However it can seem more text heavy and more confusing in the navigational tab which is something I would say is important when creating a website. The site uses a top-level horizontal navigation bar with drop down menus which is…
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Post 01: Preliminary Research
When I visited Ferens Art Gallery, most other visitors moved against the walls of each room as most of the artwork was on all of the walls and rarely in the centre which created a slight bit of congestion when others caught up and therefore made it take longer to view the art. This could…