Final Reflection

One of my weakest points that I’ve noticed (or maybe it’s an unknown strength) is color palette/texture choice within my web designs. In all areas of life, I tend to lean toward simplicity, often with the color grey and delicate line weights appearing frequently. I chose to go that route with this project in order to effectively organize all of the information but when I saw my work as compared to everyone else’s, I realized that may have been a foolish choice.

A very different aspect of this project was working in teams to establish the timeline/criteria and I think it was very helpful for us to establish which parts of the creative process we deem worthy of group time while still recognizing the need for individual contribution. The hardest part was in creating the wireframes; we are all highly visual/creative people so expecting our minds to all agree on a direction for a wireframe provided some challenges, but also made us more thorough. I can definitely see the benefit of group time but I can say that it would be difficult to do on a regular basis.

This morning, as the sun began to rise and I uploaded my final files to the dropbox, I realized I triple checked it to make sure every aspect of the required content was there. I have a problem with follow through (in all areas of life) so me disciplining myself to not only check, but double check, and triple check the necessary things. This surprised me because I, like the rest of the class, am completely burned out of school. This class was a good experience to enlighten me about the ways of the real world but it also is coming at the end of 8 consecutive semesters chock-full of design that have semi killed my creative spirit. When thinking about it terms of that, I can look around this class and be so proud of not only my work, but the work of my peers who continue to inspire me.

I know that I have a lot to learn in all areas of design and I’m looking forward to pursuing it after graduation. It’ll be nice to finally read the books I spend my life savings on ;)