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UI Design: Where to Start?
When you are designing and you have all of your finalized framework behind you, what’s the next step? It’s the FUN stuff! The next stage is the beginning of the design of all visual aspects. But where do you start? You look for inspiration! Try looking for things that you think will inspire your project.…
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Wireframes & Prototypes: Why Are They Essential?
Wireframing and prototyping are two integral steps in the process of designing a product. While there are times where the two terms are used interchangeably, there are a vast amount of differences between the two. Among these differences is at what point in the design process each is created. In almost every case, wireframes come…
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Design and Development
Moving through the process of designing an app or website, information architectures, and wireframes set up the basic elements of the framework that are needed to bring the design to life. Both can equally serve as a blueprint for the design of the product, but each serves its own unique purpose. In most cases, information…
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User Research
User research is essential in the world of User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI). Without conducting user research, designers would have no data to use when creating products or services. Three key elements that are included in the user research phase of design are competitive analysis, empathy maps, and personas. Each step requires information…
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What is UX? What is UI?
User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) are two of the most highly demanded occupations today. While the terms are sometimes used in tandem and even interchangeably, they have a variety of differences. Most people haven’t even heard of the terms UX or UI, let alone know what the jobs entail, so I’m here to…
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Ransom Note
For my last project in my Design Research and Methods class, we were assigned to create a humorous ransom note. We had to toy around with who would be sending the note, and who it would be directed toward before we even thought about taking a step into deciding what exactly the note would say.…
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Personal Logo and Cover Design
When creating my logo I wasn’t sure what direction I wanted to go in, and I struggled choosing just one idea. I liked the idea of images, shapes, hand lettering and so much more. I knew the color scheme that I wanted to use, and I knew that I wanted to do something with watercolor…
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Turtle Publication
For this project, I was given body text and images to make a publication design about Hawaiian green sea turtles. I made a nice background for the text to sit on and still be readable, I chose a catchy title, and I put a brief summarization in. I also put my text into columns and…
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Simple Poster Design
For this project, I had to create a simple poster design on InDesign. I started with the background and built the artwork and text on top of it. I wanted to use different tones of blue so that the black text would have a nice contrast on top of it. I took the banner artwork…
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Infographic
In this project, I had to create an infographic on any topic I chose. I chose to do “How to be more creative” because that is something I often struggle with myself. I got the data from https://camillestyles.com/wellness/6-surprising-ways-become-creative-person/. I wanted my design to be something that your eyes could easily follow throughout, with my focal point being an…
CRyder Design 