Coraline Coffey's DMA blog posts

Final Design

Wireframe

Flowchart

• What did you learn?

How to implement videos into Figma and how to use them.

• What was easy?

Creating an idea and design for my final project.

• What was challenging?

Figure out how to get the AR elements of the project to work with the limitations of Figma.

• How could your submission be improved?

My AR videos could have a lot more added to it if made outside of Figma.

• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?

Spend more time learning tools to make AR stuff.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

In my future assignment I can incorporate videos into my work.

Stamp Project By Coraline Coffey

• What did you learn?

How to implement all the concepts we learned and used them together in multiple designs.

• What was easy?

Finding ideas for my stamps and implement the concepts from class.

• What was challenging?

Nothing was too difficult for this project

• How could your submission be improved?

A bit more designs on some of my stamps.

• How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

Doesn’t need any change.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I’ll for sure be incorporating these concepts into my other projects because they give my the rules and balance that gives the work a processional look.

Typography

Sketch

• What did you learn?

How to edit and customized text in Figma and learn what tools that Figma gives me to create better looking text designs.

• What was easy?

Picking the font that I wanted to use.

• What was challenging?

Wasn’t very interested in the project which made it a bit harder to come up with and create an idea.

• How could your submission be improved?

I could have been a lot more creative in my design if this kind of art was more interesting to me.

• How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

Doesn’t need any change.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I’ll would be incorporating some Typography skills into my future designs.

Final Design

Wire Frames

• What did you learn?

How to make a sliding bar interactions and create styles and variables. I also learned had to use the component coding in Figma.

• What was easy?

Using components in Figma because I already have experience with coding.

• What was challenging?

Setting up Dark Mode was probably the hardest part of this assignment.

• How could your submission be improved?

Being able to switch to light and dark mode will in the presenting mode.

• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?

More time with going over how to set up light in dark mode.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

In my future assignment I can add the features, interactions, and components that I learned how to make and apply them to future design projects’.

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you? Refer to a specific reading or link for this; do not reference a class video or lecture.

Final Design

“Media controls the world”

Sketch

• What did you learn?

How to combined and merge photos in photoshop and make patterns in Figma.

• What was easy?

Making a pattern in Figma and combining images in photoshop.

• What was challenging?

Coming up with a idea for my project and finding words in my metaphors that I can use to make a design.

• How could your submission be improved?

Add more effects to my final design.

• How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

No improvements need to be made.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I’ll definitely will be using photoshop whenever I’m working with multiple images that need to be combined.

• What did you learn?

How to incorporate 4 different color palettes into there own design.

• What was easy?

I found creating the designs with analogues, split-comp and triadic to be the easiest color palettes to work with in there respected scenery.

• What was challenging?

Creating a city design using a complementary color palette was quite difficult due to the lack of different colors I had at my disposal.

• How could your submission be improved?

I could have used more gradients in my designs.

• How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

I wish we spent a little more time going over color theory in class rather then reading the articles online.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I’ll create my future color palettes using the color rules and palettes that were used during this project and incorporate them into my future works.

• What did you learn?

I learned how to create interactions in Figma for example creating a slide in menu that allows you to change frames that can be pulled in and out of the frame your currently on. I learned how to create pop ups in incorporate them as features in my design.

• What was easy?

Brain storming an idea and coming up with my design was the easiest part of the project. once i had a rough idea i wanted to create the over design came to me with ease.

• What was challenging?

The challenging part to this assignment was creating all the pop ups and features in Figma like my slide in menu and fake edit text button because it wasn’t something i have previously done in my other classes or pass assignment so it was all new to me.

• How could your submission be improved?

When designing my app I should have thought about what features i want in my design before i start working on my final design for the project.

• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?

In my opinion nothing needs to be changed or added for this assignment to be improved for the next class.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

In my future assignment I can add the features and interactions that i learned how to make and apply them to future design projects’.

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you? Refer to a specific reading or link for this; do not reference a class video or lecture.

Iconify helped a lot with finding icons for my app.

• What did you learn?

how to use Gestalt properties in my design only using the colors black and white along with only using primitive space.

• What was easy?

I found this project very enjoyable and I had an easy time coming up with a design.

• What was challenging?

it was a bit challenging incorporating the Gestalt properties into my work because I needed to look for opportunities were the ideas could be applied.

• How could your submission be improved?

Add more Gestalt properties to my final design.

• How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

Its great the way it is, no change!

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

keep Gestalt properties in mind when I’m working on my future projects and designs.

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

Gave me an Idea of what my project should look like.