Week 9 BFA website feedback

Chen, Wei-Ching Graphic & Web Design

weichingchen.com
The navigation is simple such as scrolling all the way down until it reaches to the end and automatically goes back to the very top. The typos used in this website is similiar to the font used for the Seattle Art Museum logo. The details shows mostly his projects that he worked on

Ho, Viet  Web Design & Interactive

vietho.com
One and two pages navigation, with simple fonts and the detail shows a lot for each of the projects done.

Huang, MeiFei  Graphic & Web Design

meifeihuang.com
Similar to Ho, Viet, both use one to two pages of navigation and simple fonts, but theres more details for the each of the projects. 

Hyde, Ian  Graphic Design

muse website: ianhydedesign.com
Navigation is the main webpage with several navigations to the projects. Font is both bolded and simple while the detail seems more like images rather than words.

adobe myportfolio:    http://foreveryodeling93.myportfolio.com/

Toha, Lettisia  Graphic & Web Design

lettisia.com
Navigation works both the top and scroll down. Fonts is simple and large while the details is just like the Hyde, Ian's, images replaces words for details.

Smartphone project brainstorm

My idea is to develop and app that works like a credit card and ID. People these days can easily forget their wallets or lose their important ID which makes life hard for them. I believe if this app can somehow store every important credit cards, gift cards, identifications and passes this would make life so much easier. Like Starbucks, they have something that allows the customers to use their phones to pay.

My second idea that me and my partner agree on is to make an app that works like a credit card and security pass for a market. The customers can pay from the phone and when they get to the market they use to phone as a security pass to enter, once they enter there will be lots of glass doors with products inside. They can only access the doors if they purchase the product from their phone. Each door will have a scanner and it will scan the phone for the purchased product and allows the customers to gain access. This will help minimize shoplifting and keep products nice and fresh.

My other idea is like taking pictures of what you don't know and let the internet figure out what it is. Like siri or google users can ask questions but what if its a visual question that they cannot answer? I want to create an app that allows users to use their phone camera to take pictures and allow the internet answer the questions

Unit 6 Reading Response

The Flat Design Era tells about the graphic style that doesn’t use any elements of decorative abstract as well as the use of gradients, reliefs, volumes and realistic. Instead the graphic style uses simple solid shapes and forms. Many apps shown in phones, computers or tablets appears to be flat and has a nice contemporary design with it. If there is too much element mixed with it then it makes it much harder for viewers to see what they want. Skeuomorphism is to borrow features from the past and use them for a different design, more people are slowly moving away from skeuomorphism since iOS was first introduced. Some say flat design is different from skeuomorphism but apparently there is no difference since flat design is skeuomorphic meaning they both are the same.

Designing iOS has three important theme and that’s deference, clarity, and depth. It’s important to understand the content and clarity while they can see legible text and have realistic motions to make it more attractive.

My reaction to both is I often see these kind of design on all types of apps, they design is to ensure legibility, understanding content and creative design to get the users or viewers to understands the purpose of these design.

http://arctouch.com/articles/app-developers-for-iphone/

http://www.brainvire.com/iphone-application-development-benefits-restrictions/

https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/development-iphone-applications

Unit 5 Reading Response

CHAPTER 8 “The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends”

In this chapter it all about making decisions about usability for websites. This often tend to led to arguments of decision making but in the end they will always end up with the same conclusion such as having the website work out, flash animation and understanding strengths and human convictions. Each website has their own designs on what they do for a living. Designers and developers are more visually interesting and easier to understand with lots of cool features. Average users doesn’t seem to be possible because web users can be almost anything with no simple right or wrong answers. When I read this chapter I feel like this is pretty common whenever I have to go to specific websites. As a graphic designer there’s tend to be more creative design for those designer websites.

CHAPTER 9 Usability testing on 10 cents a day

In this chapter it’s about usability testing on websites. Like all prototype or rough design there is always a testing in progress to insure the functionality or working progress. Despite the testing they can sometime be a success or a complete failure which leads to out of business or loss of economy. Sometime test requires test users and it would be easier to find users who are more of a beginner’s level or anyone who are interested in giving their personal result on the test. I feel this what might happen if I get a job as a graphic designer, there will be lots of testing and users who will be testing and giving the result.

Book Promo Links

http://www.laurenceking.com/us/logo-the-reference-guide-to-symbols-and-logotypes/

http://www.designboom.com/design/lance-wyman-monograph-unit-editions-09-10-2015/

http://magculture.com/

Unit 4 Reading Response

In this chapter it’s all about design home page and how it’s navigation works. Home page must require site identity and mission, site hierarchy, search, teases, timely content, deals, shortcuts, and finally registrations. Home page is supposed to make us feel what we are looking for or not as well as were to begin and decide whether we should establish it or trust it. Most homepages can really confuse us when we are trying to navigate which is why they have taglines, it’s some type of a small message that defines what the homepage is all about. Navigations come in many ways whether its horizontal or vertical as long as it’s understandable especially pulldowns, sometime it helps but navigation is pretty long. I feel like this is the most common situation I’ve been almost every day whenever I use my computer. I always go to many different home pages and there’s always a lot of navigations to go through, sometime it’s easy and simple while others are extremely long and annoying. Some homepages such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook are one of the best home pages there is, I have no problem going through the navigations for each home pages.

3 links

http://www.amazon.com

https://www.google.com

https://www.facebook.com