What do you see, you people gazing at me?

I really liked doing this little exercise thing... But when I had finished I realized that mostly I drew fish and women's body parts... Deary me...

First Wireframe...

These are my first wireframes... I did them quite a while ago, but I have no scanner so I had to photograph them...

Design History...

Debbie Millman...
Designer, artist, painter, writer, author...

Pictures from her book, 'Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Like and Design.'

I really like the style of all these... They're pretty weird but I like that they just look like she has been scribbling on a black board or picking at the paint on her walls... I chose this artist over all the others because, this is probably really bad to say, but it was the only one that actually stood out to me... I also think I like her work because it's pretty much just random illustrations which is what I seem to do, even if I want to draw a whole picture, I just go off in my head and start drawing bits of everything...




















These repetitive ones remind me of doing lines at school... I really like that everyone will see a different meaning to them all... Kind of like a song with weird lyrics that everyone thinks are about them...




































This could be taken in a manner of ways... And considering she has pictures like the next one down...




















This is titled 'Trouble'... Strange... I really like it though... It's hilarious... It's the type of thing people (including me ;)...) used to draw on other people text books at school when they wern't looking... So good...





















I hope this is a real letter that someone has wrote...
















I like this quite alot... I can't say I think this is 'art' though, becasuse I used to do pull the wallpaper off the walls all the time in my room when I was little and I got shouted at not called an artist...





















I think this one is a valentine's day card... It reminds me of what I did for my Art GCSE mock... It's really cute and quirky though... I like making cards for people... And I love how it looks like it's been done in auqa crayons, I love them...

Moodboard About Myself...

Complete Beginners Guide To Interaction Design...

Web designers used to be similar to graphic designers in a way that they both worked with presentation, but now websites are more interactive, that's where the web designers stray from the layout of things and concern themselves more with the responsive aspect of sites. Interactive design, being only a couple of decades old, is relatively new.

Interactive Design- The study of devices with which the user can interact.
Experience Design-
Human- computer interaction- Being only concerned with the interaction between users and computers.

IxD Concepts

Gold- driven Design
Using research to see what the user wants to get out of the site to make it more successful.

Interface as Magic
Making interfaces so good the the user simply has to 'see' them as an extension of the underlying system. 'Less is less' giving the user just what they need.

Usability
The ease that the user can use the interface to achieve there goal. Web designers should always have this in mind.

Affordances
The quality of the interface and how straightforward it is for the user to perform an action.

Blog To The Future ||

Right... So I got a little confused about the 'write on your blog about the future' thing... It was actually, 'write what you want to get out of this year'... So... I'm aiming to get quite a lot out of this year because I didn't do too well last year... To say the lease... :) But I think I will get a few things out of it which I really didn't think I would, or never would have done unless I would have came to university, like... Work experience... I thought the only work experience I'd ever do was the 3 days I did at Lloyds Pharmacy on the Isle of Man, where basically all I did was mess with the tester make-up all day because they didn't trust me on the tills... But no no no! I'm going to go to a big company?! Crazyness! I still have no idea where I want to go yet though... Not even if I want to go to somewhere here or on the Island... But to be honest, the thing I'm most worried about is that no one will probably want to to do work experience at there company... Bad times! But I'm sure I'll find somewhere... Ahem... :)
Another thing I'm looking forward to is not dreading some days of the week, (no offense film and 3D people) because I'm only going to be doing things I want to be now... I don't really know what else I want to get out of this year yet, because we're still right at the start, I just want to get as much as I can! ;) Haha...

Blog To The Future...

Simon told us to write on here about what we want to do in the future... I don't really know what to write that I haven't already said in class... But I'd like to be a teacher after this course so I'd have to do a teaching course after this one, but I'm thinking of not coming back to NTU, (not that I don't love it here) But I think I'd rather do an open university course at home on the Isle of Man because I would love to work at a manx school to bring a more computer based approach to art lessons and give students more access to interactive media and technology instead of just drawing and painting. I'd also really like to make silly children's books and online games on the side, just because I really enjoy doing it... :)