Month: October 2022

• What Point of interest (POI) did your team decide on?
• How did you create it (photoshop, Figma)?
• What assets did you use? (jpg/gif/audio/etc)

For our Point of Interest, my team decided on Seattle Lakes. We thought about the broad audience something like this would target. We covered Lake Washington, Lake Union, and Green Lake. Each team member chose a lake (in my case Green Lake). The goal was to add panels giving fun facts about the lake, Activities, History, and an image of the lake.

We created our panels in Photoshop. In order to maintain the cohesive look throughout different panels one of my team members made templates in Photoshop. We all used the same style by using the same number of panels, color palette, and fonts.

I created a GIF of a duck swimming off in procreate for my asset. I thought about something that Green Lake has and went off the Duck Island fun fact I added in one of my panels.

5 years ago I made a decision that changed everything. Back in 2017 I visited Seattle during spring break. I am from Texas and had never been to the PNW. I was very amazed at how different it was in every sense. After that trip I came back during the summer for the 4th of July to visit my friend. My friend was all alone and really wanted someone familiar to live close by. She asked me to move with her to Seattle. At the time I was 19 I was going to school back in El Paso and studying Business Administration. I wasn’t very passionate about my life back in Texas but didn’t feel ready to leave the nest. I thought about it for a couple of weeks then decided I would make the move! I went from Southwest to PNW.

The most difficult part about that decision was leaving everything I knew behind. I felt scared and unprepared but also excited about what was coming. fast forward 5 years and here I am. Over the years I have learned so much about myself. I learned how to be independent. I learned to be at peace with my own company and just enjoy hanging with myself. I have met lots of people along the way. Some stayed some went. I have have several different jobs in retail, service industry, childcare/preschool. All of those jobs have taught me different lessons which have led me to be here today. I think the hardest things to say yes to are the ones you should say YES. Thanks to that decision I am here in this program learning towards becoming a graphic designer. So far I have met some great friends who I see myself working towards creating something great in the future. I am excited to keep saying yes to things.

SolAr is an interactive Augmented Reality app that allows you to explore our solar system through your phone. It is optimized for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices. The app has 4.5 star review which is pretty good for an AR app to have. I wondered what could help make solAR better and this is what I found.

SolAR can improve the user experience by working on these small things. The fixed point when you go into AR mode is difficult to tweak once in the mode. I found myself having to exit and try again in order to get the position I wanted. When you attempt to rotate the planet it disappears or gets stuck. I didn’t see any of this in the reviews but I did se a few minor complaints about it only being available for iOS devices. Would be nice for non-iphone users to have the option. Second frequent complaint was the fact of paying $4.99 to get the full (you get 4 planets on the free version)

What is working for solAR? Solar has a very intuitive interface. In terms of figuring out the app, icons make the experience easier to follow. It is for ages 4+ which is a broad audience. Clean and simple wireframe very easy to the eye as someone with astigmatism it was pleasant for my eyes. Provides a 3D model and AR model for those who are not necessarily using it as an AR version the app does offer 3D which actually has no glitches. Gives fun facts about the planets you select under the binoculars icon. Very educational and easy to use.

After listening to our host speaker Joe Hallock, I thought about my main interest in design. Initially, I came into this program very interested in packaging design. I am aware that the packaging design class is taken the second year, I am looking forward to it! So far I have been pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoy the Interactive course. Then I realized UX is essentially packaging design for digital products. So far I am still quite interested in packaging design but am trying to open my mind to everything I am learning to have broad knowledge of the possible ways this program can potentially branch out to.

From my understanding packaging design can range from mid-high density. If you are designing packaging for a food company then taking into consideration things like environment, nutrition labels, ingredient lists, functionality etc. If you are designing packaging for pharmaceuticals it is similar factors but with more extensive research involved. For a UX product design if it is for a social media the information density is about medium. In packaging design it really depends on the product.

In terms of audience Packaging design can be for a broad to specific audience. If your packaging is a standard product that is targeted for a wide range to be sold in chain stores like Target, Costco, or Walmart you have a broad audience. If your product is cosmetics for Sephora packaging targeted towards a specific demographic. Usually women form 18-55 years of age. All of these factors will determine where on the spectrum the position falls on. I would personally like to start with something mid density information and broad audience like a food packaging and make it sustainable and ethical. Until then I might find that I would like to go a different route.

For this mashup project I decided I wanted to focus on an object that inspires me. I chose a Clay Jaguar that I got a few years ago at a small town in Chiapas, Mexico. This represents how my experience at SCCA has been so far by portraying how the jaguar progressively gets a new pattern with each frame. I feel that way because every day I learn something new.

My mashup consists of a photo of the Clay Jaguar, A digital drawing, and an animation. I used Procreate for the digital drawing and animation. The animation is essentially a progression of the Jaguar’s body being filled with patterns. I then added a background color to each layer to create a strobe effect once animated. My biggest challenge was working with onion skin layers on procreate. The animation consists of 145 frames at 8 frames per second.

For my A_R card I chose to go with a space exploration theme. The scene starts with a rotating gold cone. When you tap the cone a scene appears. The scene is Jupiter scaled to move with a spaceship orbiting around it. The second part are rotating stars placed on each side of Jupiter. Above Jupiter and the Space ship is the word “GO”. Lastly above the letters is an astronaut orbiting the word “GO”.

One of the challenges I had was getting my triggers in the right order. I revisited the tutorial and looked at the behaviors to guide myself. Overall I found it to be fun!