Overall there was an enormous improvement from the first project to this one. My treatment of elements progressed as well. After going through the Photoshop tutorial about creating buttons, I felt more confident in experimenting with my own. I definitely feel that I have a long ways to go–there’s always more to learn. I’m learning to enjoy Photoshop more; I love learning new shortcuts. Trying to perform one task can take forever, like finding the layer you need to work with, but now I can just command + click and there it is!
As far as technical mistakes go I realized that I failed to follow the grid structure as much as I should have. I think it would have definitely created a stronger since of unity between the pages. I struggled with varying the pages; I tried not to venture too far from the overall layout look and feel. I need to continue to learn more and improve my use of hierarchy. It’s frustrating because I’ve worked with it time after time, but I still make senseless mistakes. I need to be producing more sketches, but I feel like I’m getting there!
Conceptually, the beginning process was not what I ended up with, which is just fine. I feel that I still struggle with communicating what my vision for how things should work. That’s always a challenge though. So hopefully I will be able to better depict my site map for the next project and it will not be a stumbling block.
I was glad to have more freedom in this project, it could have been daunting, but I feel that I found a subject I was passionate enough about to keep it concise. I think a strength is that I really strive to listen and take critiques seriously, if something needs to be changed I am willing to at least try it, if not completely go with the suggestion. It was a wise decision for my menu page as well as a text box on the home page of my site. I thoroughly enjoyed this project and wanted to keep making pages!
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