Graphic Design Blog
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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…
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Class Work
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Post 04: Adaptation for Web
When converting my iPhone design layout to a desktop version, I started by using a black bar at the top of the page to act as my navigational menu instead of completely copying what I did for my phone screen layout. This is because as the desktop will have a bigger screen and therefore I’ll…
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Post 03: High-Fidelity Mobile Prototype
When I started transitioning my low fidelity pages into high fidelity prototypes, I struggled on how to incorporate colour into my pages at first as all the colours from the palettes I made all looked flat and didn’t resemble the existing apps I used as inspiration at all. This led to my decision in using…
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Post 02: User Flow & UI Wireframing
When creating the beginnings of the key pages and the navigation between them, I attempted to keep everything as simple and straightforward as possible for the comfort of the user. I did this by considering the environment the user would be in while using the app which would have many distractions as well as being…
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Post 01: Design Research
When I was beginning the assignment, I started by researching the design choices of other apps of all types to see what type of style is more appealing to users while still being simple to navigate. A simplistic layout that was easy to navigate was my main goal over aesthetics as the app would be…
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Narrated Video
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Three Cover Designs
When creating my first cover, I wanted to firstly sort out my composition so I could easily include an aspect of each article without it becoming too crowded or bare. To do this, I chose a photo that would relate to one of the articles and in the first cover, that was a picture of…
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