Week 7, Session 1 | 11.04.22
 

(Corporate focused)

Intro to UX

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Today we sort of established our group dynamic, we found out what we were good at and what our weaknesses are. Both members have a background in sound as they both produce music irl. It's hard to gauge dedication levels at this point but I think they are both slow burners and that their productivity will spike up as the assignment deadline approaches.

Ryan: Strong skills in sound design and music

Will: Strong skills in video editing also sound design

I am more than happy to 

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I've tried to include everyone in our discussions, hearing out everyone's ideas etc. I think all of us are on the same page in terms of ideating so far. 

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It's hard to see how on board everyone is right now but I'm keen to utilize everyone's strengths and see how it fits into the design brief and statement.

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EARLY IDEAS:

Chinatown Brief

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Week 10, Session 2 | 30.09.21

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Okay today our group did really well, we solidified the design decision and we all have similar project visions 

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Uni Break

Damn, it's actually kinda challenging to keep everyone accountable for their work and tasks. But also i've been taking into consideration that everyone has commitments and life things to work on. 

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Week 11, Session 2 | 07.10.21

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I was pretty much in a rut at this point in time and I felt like there wasn't this golden idea that came up (not that I was searching for the perfect idea). I just needed some sort of inspiration that could help me finalize something unique. 

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I basically decided to take a walk outside after being inside for way too long, pretty much walking by things I found interesting, I walked by a menu that looked interesting and thought that could be a potential front page, I walked through alley ways and found these walls of stickers that sparked an idea but it felt a bit too hard to do at the time, but eventually I walked passed a storefront that had an interesting geometric poster type wall.  

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Week 12, Session 1 | 11.10.21

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Group Feedback Session:

This didn't go too bad! Everyone at this point, including myself didn't have much besides the basics and the homepage + wireframe pages. It was hard to give actual constructive feedback as there wasn't much content to give feedback on besides fleshing everything else out

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I knew I wanted to maintain the same timeline type scrolling aspect, so I used them for my assignment pages, this was the free code I adopted!

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https://codepen.io/Fischaela/pen/sJdqg/

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I ended up changing the text, colours and position to suit what I needed for the content.

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I had a lot of overlapping issues and it took me really long time to figure out that you could use z-indexes to manipulate the overlap hierarchy. z-index = 2 to overlap any other elements

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Week 12, Session 2 | 14.10.21 - Last Session!!

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I really don't know if I've developed Stockholm Syndrome for this online class but whatever it is, it kinda felt odd to end it there. Maybe it was all the struggles we went through and then making it all the way to the end?? It was by far the most challenging course unit, but for reals though, these blog posts + course content + submission feedback has honestly equipped me with the design tools and creative output that I didn't even realize was a thing for me.

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I keep forgetting that it's only been 1 semester but boy, it felt like an eternity.

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Pretty much from this point on, I've been working on getting all of the content in the assignment pages, the timeline style works well for me as you can probably already tell with the blog posts, I figured I might as well keep it consistent. (it doesn't look too bad too)

Closing Thoughts! | 15.10.21

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This was a really great introduction to the Digital Media course, definitely super fast paced with learning all of the new software in only 3 weeks, which was daunting at first, but each new module kept you on your feet and we all got there at the end (I hope). 

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Future habits/reflections:

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- Practice giving better feedback!
 

Applied habits from previous assignment:

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- Getting feedback

- Reiterative process

- Having an early concept in mind and building on top of that from the start.

Things I gained:
 

- A lot more insight on html coding! but definitely need some polishing up with the code.​

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