Blogs aren’t as much fun as I expected. Code is though. Onto GD2
Daniel Allgood
Having critique in the hallway with that many projects to look at just sucks. While I did receive lots of helpful critique I feel a lot of my classmates don’t get as much response for their projects especially those at the end of class. Maybe having a slight break from critique half way would help, but it’s just rough standing 10 feet away to critique things. While I haven’t been able to put the feedback people gave me into my design yet I plan to do a lot of changes to the overall feel of my site because I feel it’s more of a ad and not really interactive for the user. So, maybe back to the drawing board on a few things with the site, but that’s alright. I personally just want to get into the coding aspect of this project where I think my site will start to make more sense rather than just printed out on paper.
Spent most of my weekend working on my project 3 which I plan on it being an interactive story telling the re-founding of my fraternity, my cardboard site, and code academy. Needless to say I’m a little burnt on the code and want to be burnt from the sun while on the beach this Friday. Haha, anyways I learned a ton on using java code for how my menus can interactive with the user, and spent a solid amount of time learning from devtips on youtube. Great channel by the way. They have tons of tutorials and useful information for anything and everything graphic design, and web design. Check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/user/DevTipsForDesigners
I found a pretty easy to use wireframe application called Axure and it’s really helpful in laying everything out quickly and easily. After I got a little mock up made I went to photoshop and made a few different colored versions for my first page of this navigation website. Hopefully I can code this the way I want it later down the road, because I’m currently not so sure how I’d code this website to make it do what I want it to do.
The test was a little difficult, but only because it was definitely not your standard test. It made us think in a different way, as if it we were solving a puzzle and all the pieces were there. I’ve learned after spending the weekend working on designing navigation menu’s with structured hierarchy of all the people, terms, technology, skills, and such that you can go a lot of different ways with these, but it’s hard to make it simple for the user to navigate without there being too many options in their face at one time. Coding this will probably be as much of a puzzle as the test haha!
I think having a set in stone background is great and all, but only for certain webpages. I personally like a parallax scrolling background though. Going through this chapter was sort of helpful for when it comes to making our own webpages for if we were to need gradients, or just background images in general. I think I’ll be trying the linear repeating gradient sometime soon just because it pops text out so much. I also learned while throwing my typeset images into illustrator that it actually isn’t giving me any helpful code at all. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong to be honest. I watched the videos and my files just bring up the code to make the image a background image?
Going back to the videos; the one that was like 50 minutes talked about an app called Adobe Kuler, which turns out is pretty freaking sweet. You can literally take a picture of anything that inspires you color-wise with your phone, and Kuler will pull certain colors out of it and then let you save it as a theme that’ll automatically be synced into all your adobe programs for use in designs, which I think is pretty sweet.
After last class I kinda can see how my page is going to look, and just how much more I need to dive into the coding side. There’s so much I want to do, but I’m not sure how to do, yet. I’m planning on going on code academy again this weekend, and hopefully finish up my fraternity’s website as well. Cheers to the snowday
Let me start off by saying this man is very low-key on the internet. There’s quite literally maybe 2 paragraphs of information on the internet actually about him. Regardless I found what I could, and here it is. Originally from Paris he started working at a robotics company, which if you go their website https://www.aldebaran.com/en it looks like he was definitely in on some cool projects. He then ended up at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris, and from there he and Damian Henry created Google Cardboard. Eventually taking a prototype to silicon valley, and landing a job at the main Google headquarters. He wanted to make a low cost VR headset, and they did just that. The next big project is working on getting it into classrooms for students and teachers to utilize. 
