Keith Jernigan's Archive

Project 5:

Compared to the last app we did I think I have improved quite a bit as far as functionality and user experience goes. It was a challenge to have to think like someone else who really wouldn’t understand how to do simple things in the app and try to make that easily navigatable for them. I think some of my technical weaknesses for this project were relying on illustrator to make the actual graphics and them placing them into the PSD screen place. I would have really liked to be able to do it all in photoshop but I couldn’t get the aesthetic that I wanted like that. Another thing that I struggled with was conceptually coming up with randomly generated graphics. That proved to be harder than I thought. Overall though I think I improved on my UX skills and I think that my app looks clean and modern and easy to use and in general looks pretty tight. I can still improve in some areas of Photoshop though.

Year Reflection

When this class first started I thought that i had a pretty good feel for what was cool and good interactive design and I thought  that I would do great work. I was wrong, I found myself struggling to make things perfect and produce work that was nice looking and cool. After the first project thought I felt like I had a new understanding and I think I have improved ever since then. Overall I think I drastically improved in web design UX and other aspects of designing a website, and I realized that i really didn’t know anything about it like I thought I did. However, I can still greatly improve in pretty much every thing that we have learned in this class. One of this biggest things I still struggle with is negative space issues, and while I have improved at dealing with that, I still have some room for improvement. Overall I think I learned a ton and excited to try and apply the skills I have learned in here.

Keith-P5-Wireframes

Phone tracker

Infotron.

Appfographic.

Stuff my phone does.

Info with friends.

Graph with friends.

Super sweet party time info graphics.

No. 7.

1. Phone will gather data while you use it. (not really a task)

2. User asmebls data about something the have done.

3. Submit data to generate a info graphic.

4. Share info graphic about a daily item to a social network.

5. Compile a monthly graphic that displays all the graphics made over the month.

This project was very interesting, I really liked designing a app but at the same time I really didn’t like designing an app. I really struggled with the functionality of my app, but at the asme time I was fully aware of how it functioned and I thought everyone else would see it the same way. But they didn’t.

Some things I struggled with technically was something that I realized was going to be a problem from the get go. I wanted to stay with apples already in place aesthetic that they use in apps. But this proved very challenging to do and when i didn’t have the photoshop knowledge and skill to do it exactly the same I got pretty frustrated and i think it shows in my app. While I think that my technical skills were good enough to make a pretty good looking app they just weren’t quite good enough to make the app that was in my head. Over all though I am pleased with how my app turned out.

Conceptually, I struggled with making the features of my app understood by my fellow classmates. I went into this project knowing exactly what i wanted to do but as the project came along I realized that some parts of my app either weren’t possible o not realistic. So when i showed everyone how it functioned they didn’t get why it couldn’t or didn’t do some stuff and I wish I could have conveyed those reason better.

Over all I saw great progress in my attention to detail and the organization of the space that i am allowed to design with. It was a great challenge to try to put forward so much information on a 3 inch screen while also trying to keep that information very clean and clear looking. I think that my improvement in attention to detail is very noticeable form the first project, and you can even tell some difference from the last project. I also think that I could still improve on some things, one of them being color. Color is something I continue to struggle with today and am actively trying to better understand so I can do great work.