Jack & Jill
Throughout working on this project, I learned a lot about the Gestalt Principles and what they look like as well as represent. I will admit, some of the concepts were very hard for me to understand and differentiate among the others. Putting the designs into practice really gave me a grasp of what these concepts look like.
The easiest part of this project was simply sketching and planning my designs. I feel like on paper I knew what I wanted my designs to look like, but getting them arranged on Figma the way I wanted to did not work as well as I wanted it to. There were many times I had to completely redesign and start from scratch in order to make my ideas work on Figma.
Although I did the best that I could as a beginner, I think I definitely could have gotten more creative with my designs. I really tried to keep things simple and not over complicated as to not confuse myself with the concepts. I feel as though it was hard for me to focus on the design concepts as well as the nursery rhyme itself.
For next time, I think I need to try not to think so hard and put as much pressure on myself. I get confused very easily and I think I thought way too hard on each of these concepts.
From completing this project and gaining a deeper understanding of the Gestalt Principles, I have definitely started to pin-point the principles in the real world. Being able to identify them in the real world, will give me more inspiration as well as a different perspective moving forward with future projects and assignments.
When looking for inspiration on this project, looking at the linked examples from students really helped. Although most of them seemed too complex for me, it gave me a lot of ideas.
Overall, I thought this project was a great challenge and really fun.