During my time at the Seattle Central Creative Academy, there was a time when I had to pivot due to circumstances I had not anticipated in order to finish a project on time. A few weeks into this quarter, I started having problems with my health. I had a debilitating headache that would not go away and only got worse as time went on. It was preventing me from physically attending class, and I ended up having to go to the ER because of it. Because of this, I fell a little behind in a couple of my classes. The assignment was for my Interactive Design class. We had to design an online magazine with a linked webpage to an article. The choices of category for the magazine were music, food, and travel. I had decided at the start of the project to make my online magazine about music. The parameters for the project were to first create card-based elements in Figma. After that, we needed to lay out the card-based elements into a wireframe for both the homepage and the article. Finally, we had to transfer the design we had created in Figma to Dreamweaver as a final website.
My health interference meant I was about a week behind in the whole process. When my classmates were starting to lay out their wireframes, I was finalizing my card-based elements. Despite this, I wasn’t worried. I was confident in my ability to push through and complete the project on time. I knew my understanding of html and css meant the actual coding part of the project would take less time for me than it might for my classmates. After being behind for a couple of weeks during the check-ins, I finally transferred my design into code and just as I had expected, I was just fine. I was able to fully code my homepage to a quality that was at the same as my peers by the weekly check-in despite having been behind prior. By the next week, I had completely finished my project. I had faith in myself and my abilities and knew that despite my hardships with my health I could produce high-quality work. At the end of it all, my website came out with a quality I am proud of.
