Month 7: Applied Design Tools and Interfaces

Lab 8 and 9: Get Away Travels Composition

Same thing again, once we were finished with our wireframes, we went ahead and completed a style tile before starting the composition. We had to upload those screens to (a great little program) Invision. Just like the ESPN project, you can click through the clickable prototype. Just follow the link below. If you get lost, you can hit the "Shift" key to find out where to click. I guide you through the process and force you to click on certain things. Deal with it. :P

http://invis.io/HA51BF6T

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Month 7: Applied Design Tools and Interfaces

Lab 6 and 7: Get Away Travel Wireframes

After we finished the Acme Movie Reviews website, we moved onto the Get Away Travels site. Since I've already explained the process with some of this stuff, I'll just post the wireframes here.

However... Here's a little bit of a look into the "real life" at Full Sail. Being a Full Sail student, I'm naturally broke. I haven't been able to pay my cable bill for two months now, and in the middle of this month my internet cut out. There's no knowing when I'll be able to get it back, either. So. I'm a web student without internet. We'll see how this goes... I'm updating my blog from class. But, here it is!

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Month 7: Applied Design Tools and Interfaces

Labs 4 and 5: Acme Movie Reviews Composition

Once the high-fidelity wireframes were finished for the ACME movie reviews website, we continued to do compositions for the four pages we did wireframes for. Before we began our compositions, however, we had to do a style tile, which is a great document I would recommend as a deliverable for clients. You can get a free download here:
http://styletil.es/

The Style Tile includes examples of primary, secondary and copy text as well as global navigation, textures and color palettes. After I finished that, I moved on to my comps:

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Month 7: Advanced Design Tools and Interfaces

Lab 2: Acme Movie Reviews - Designing for Task Based Workflows

For both Labs two and three we're working on high-fidelity wireframes for a fictional movie review website. Included is the home page and the genre listing page. (Next class are three additional wireframes.) Utilizing design patterns, principles and elements, I've created a composition that I feel is quite unique compared to sites like IMDb, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes and Movie Tickets. Let me know if you have any suggestions. I love feedback like zombies love brains! Hmm. That gives me an idea for a painting...

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Month 7: Advanced Design Tools and Interfaces

Lab 1: Principle and Elements of Design

For this lab we were told to create a design for print. It had to encompass at least two Principles of Design. I chose emphasis and contrast. They were easy design principles, and though I don't like to take the easy way out, it just fit my design really well. Additionally, we had to create another document with color swatches featuring their RGB and CMYK color values. This lab was really easy, but incredibly fun. It's the first lab where you can do anything you want. The only requirement is that it has to be something that will be printed and it also had to use two images. I found the skully gas mask off of Google. Now that I think about it, I probably should have made my own. Perhaps it calls for a bit of a redemption. Anyhow...

The design itself is based off an idea that I had for a movie, surrounding the Denver International Airport conspiracies. Do I believe them, myself? No. But I think they'd make for a fantastic Horror / Suspense / End of the World Doomsday movie.

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