This week we decided to start drafting some ideas for our design. We decided for this progress it would be good if we all took a segmat each and created 3 individual drafts then brought them together and compared them and took the good elements from each to come up with a design we are all happy with. I chose to draft the main screen for the app design. Here is the draft that I created.
I decided to focus my design on space as part of Einstein’s theory. I used graphics I found on the internet and edited them for my draft. I used the Facebook menu feature, I liked from my research, in my own design. The second image shows how when the menu tab is selected it produces a drop down menu on the left hand side.
I am happy with these as my first drafts however i recognise that i have a long way to go before it is how I want it to look. When I had finished my design i took it to the group and we all shared our ideas on how we thought each design could be made better and what we liked, for example we all liked the theme of planets and space. However, the main thing that stood out from this meeting was the use of graphics found on the internet. We thought it would look much more professional if we drew and scanned the graphics in ourselves. Taking note of this we started to get to work straight away on drawing the graphics. We gave each of us a graphic to draw and then went and drafted them, however when we then brought them all together they looked odd because they all looked different. We decided it would look better if one person drew them so that they all looked the same, because Natalie is the artistic one of the group she volunteered to draw them. Here are the drawn and scanned in graphics:
I am very happy with the way the graphics turn out as they are exactly what we imagined. We wanted them to purposely look hand drawn and childlike, yet colourful and fun. I feel that these graphics fit the target demographic perfectly, based on my research.
