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Week 3 – 17/03/20

Lecture Pods Summary The lecture pod this week covered the following areas: Design Patterns in Interactive Design: Having similar design patterns to others is not necessarily a bad thing – it is indicative of the way the web has changed based on consumer need and preference. For example, the hamburger menu is one of theContinue reading “Week 3 – 17/03/20”

Interface Design Project

This project was done alongside the user flow and site maps that we completed for our ongoing toast project. For this segment, we had to make the visual screen designs for our interface on toast with indications of the interactive elements. My interface is extremely simple, however I wanted it to be as the designContinue reading “Interface Design Project”

Site Map and User Flow Project

Over the past few weeks we have been expanding on our exercise of making toast – primarily in regards to setting up a mock user interface for the project. A part of this expansion has been creating a site map detailing user flow around the site. Due to the minimal content we have – justContinue reading “Site Map and User Flow Project”

Week 2 – 10/03/20

Lecture Pods Summary The lecture pod for this week covered the following areas: Design Processes and Overviews There are 8 distinct steps in the process of interactive design. The example used in the lecture pod is pictured below: The steps chronologically are: ERROR/ISSUE -> IDEA -> METAPHOR -> SCENARIO/DESIGN ->TASK ENGINEERING -> MODEL -> PRESENTATIONContinue reading “Week 2 – 10/03/20”

Week 1 Class Notes

In this week’s tutorial we covered the following topics: Unit outline/Introduction – we went over what the structure and content of the unit would be this semester. Within this discussion we were given Assessment information, various links to resources for the Assessment topic (issues with the Marine environment and how to learn about/solve them) andContinue reading “Week 1 Class Notes”

Precedent Project

About the Project This project forms a part of our Interactive Design assessment task. As a part of our research we have to find examples (precedents) of Interactive Design with the same topic as our assignment (Marine Environmental Issues). We worked in groups for this project in order to establish a stronger project. My ProjectContinue reading “Precedent Project”

What is Interactive Design?

Definition Interactive Design can be classified as the designing of a product with the specific purpose of being used by a wide range of audiences. Products with interactivity focus on the experience and knowledge of the audiences and aim to create an immersive experience through many different mediums. These mediums can be as complex asContinue reading “What is Interactive Design?”

Flowchart Project

Tutorial Date: Tuesday 3rd March, 2020 (Week 1) In the tutorial we did a small project where we focused on how to provide a step-by-step process to a user. This consisted of examining and creating flowcharts for a specific process. The aim was to make the process as simple and accessible as possible. Our processContinue reading “Flowchart Project”

Week 1 – 03/03/20

Lecture Pods Summary The Week 1 Lecture Pod explores the following areas: What is Interactive Design, and what do Interactive Designers do? Interactive Design cannot exist without other specialist areas of design such as Information Design, Web Design and other Software Design. It is an area of design which has features of many other disciplines,Continue reading “Week 1 – 03/03/20”