DMA 370: Designing for mobile devices
- I learned a lot from this project because it was a lot of experimenting with different things to see what works. It was a lot of trial and error and I had to learn a lot about the prototype tool to make sure it is going to the right place and has the right effect on it so it flows naturally.
- What was easy was designing and coming up with the idea of the music player. I have been recently going to spotify to look up sleeping and focus sounds and realized that it would be a perfect idea for this project. Creating the layout of the app was quite simple to me and I knew how I wanted to make it after doing a quick sketch.
- What was challenging was definitely the prototyping because there are so many frames and had to have so many arrows going to different frames so the buttons would work and was confusing. Also making sure everything was laid out evenly and in the same position on every frame so it looked organized.
- My submission was improved because we talked about it in class and got advice on things I should fix like my hamburger button. I made the hamburger button actually work through all the frames and made the app design more organized.
- I believe that this project is very straightforward and gives us a chance to be creative. I don’t think there is anything that needs to be changed for the next time.
- I will apply what I learned from this project to future job positions because now I can say I am proficient in figma and understand how to be creative and create an app if I ever need to do this for a future job or project.
- What inspired me to come up with this idea for my music player app is my own experience of what I was going through at the time this project started. I was recently just starting to use Spotify to help me focus on homework and sleep with their relaxing sounds and thought to myself how it would be nice to make an app that only had that function.