Like the Focus-Up App, I created another one for a different project. The objective of this project was to create an app or website to help college students learn about the Gestalt Principles of Design. The key ways that people take in information is through discussion, watching, and hands on experiences. I wanted to incorporate that into my app design.
“An app to give insight on things that students would learn in UI/UX classes. UI/UX are things that Graphic Designers also learn in their degree requirements. This gives them a way to learn how to set up their own important documents in way that is accessible and usable.”
How I did it:
This was also a pretty big project. I started with a proposal. In the proposal we figure out a problem statement and strategic plan. The problem statement is just a question about what we are trying to fix (“How can we educate college students about the design of the Gestalt Psychology in a fun and engaging way?”). The strategic plan just goes over what will be on the app and how you will let others know about the app. Then I did a heuristic evaluation which is a process where we measure the usability of “user interfaces in independent walkthroughs and report issues”. I used 10 different measurements. I created a competitive analysis after that which is just used as a criteria to look at the usability of the competitors. This helps identify competitors, and understand competitor’s strengths and weaknesses in relation to my app. It helps “gauge how to curb competitors and refine my own strategy”. I then complete an analysis where I go over personas (demographics, needs/expectations and how to adapt to those needs/expectations), scenarios (goals and questions to be achieved and how the user(s) can achieve them), and lastly use cases (building the structure and organize information for your designs for those scenarios). After all that research, I finally started creating wireframes for my app. I drew out ideas for navigation, buttons, message-popups, and every page/screen the user would see. When all my ideas were finally draw out, I started actually designing them in Illustrator. I ended up with designing 38 screens. I showcased 5 of the 38 in the image above. You can see the process by clicking the link below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZOC-ZOJ4VYlAYwdKWwZEz5FfhFv48TOx/view?usp=sharing
