Research
The research I did for the About Me project was find articles about good and bad design. I found articles that would sometimes agree with each other about design then some that would have opposite opinions. All the articles had the same idea about design which is that design should be useful, reliable, and accessible. The article ,Why Good Design and Empathy Are Key to Resuming Office Life Again discussed how they had to create good design so that employees would feel safe and comfortable going back into their working environment after the pandemic. The article Good design at Vitsoe discussed ten principles for good design like, innovative, useful, aesthetic and etc.
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Exercises/Activities
Here is the exercise/activity we did its shows some of the designs I think are good design and some I think are bad design, and in the boxes it explains why I like or dislike those designs.
Iterations
This is my visual brainstorming I did on Sketchbook this is a drawing I did before actually starting the website. I did this sketch to kind of get a visual idea of what I wanted my website to look like. This sketch compared to my final website is totally different now but it helped a lot to get an idea of what I wanted my website to look like.
Concept Statement
My concept for this project was to create something to be easy to read, and to have good information I thought would be interesting to learn about me. I wanted my website to be a clean structured website that focuses on my accomplishments from school and what I do as far as design outside of school. My website was meant to look professional but also be easy on the eye to read.
Production
The picture on the left is showing how my website looked before and on the right is my final website. I started removing information I thought was to much, and cleaning up some things I thought that was taking up space on my website like some pictures, and I created my noteworthy information into bullet points instead of paragraph format. At first I had my future plans at the bottom of my page but I decided to include that into my about me section at the very top of the page. I created lines on the website to create the sections so it wouldn’t feel it’s all one big paragraph.
Link to Portfolio Project
View About Me project at About Me