Reflection

I have learned from every single project we have done. Each website has been completely different and called for different things. I feel like now I am much much closer to being confident in actually designing a website for myself or someone else. A part I see myself lacking in is organization. I am so used to doing print pieces and having little information to design for and now doing web design there is so much information to consider. The audio tutorial actually really helped me along with the inspiration pieces that were sent. I really noticed how tightly organized they all were and how strict they were to a grid system, even if it is not an obvious grid; everything matches and flows well. I tend to just get overwhelmed when I see a long list of info that I have to design and put on a page. Like this project for example, just reading the list of things the home page needed, I thought there was no way I could put all of it together. But that is a fun and challenging part about web design for me as well. Each little block of information, or menu bar, slider bar, whatever is like an individual piece that has to fit in and match with the overall page as a whole. So even though it is overwhelming for me to think of taking on designing all that information, once it starts to come together I am inspired and excited to add on to the page as a whole. Technically I still have much to learn and work on. It is really easy for me to break away from a grid system at all and just start designing something that i think works. I am learning though and  have learned an incredible amount over the semester. My opinion of interactive design has definitely changed. It still isn’t my most favorite thing to do but I do enjoy it and I want to continue improving on my designs.