This week, we looked into the fundamentals of UX and Ui design as well as useful resources on the topic, such as videos and books.
“Human-centred design is a design philosophy. It means starting with a good understanding of people and the needs that the design is intended to meet.”
-Donald Norman
Human-centred design is a design approach which looks at the wants, needs and limitations of the end user of the design.
It involves researching user data and putting yourself in the user’s shoes to achieve the most effortless, easy-to-use and satisfying end product.
For our first exercise, we were tasked with designing an iPhone screen size layout for a paragraph from “Laws of UX” by Jon Yablonski, using assets we were introduced to earlier.
During this exercise, I tried to use what I had previously learnt from previous projects and added a gradient in the background to add visual appeal and a one colour rectangle at the top to make the title stand out through contrasting the text colour and that of the background.
This exercise consisted of two parts. First, we were given a layout guide with precise measurements for spacing, font size, line height, etc. With these measurements, we were tasked to change the type and image space into our favourite album covers and artist names . I felt really satisfied with this end result, and using the layout made me appreciate more what proper spacing, type hierarchy, etc, can do for a design.
For the second part we were given looser guidelines for the layout and more freedom with what we could make as long as it pertained to an album of our choosing and used previously mentioned assets.
I decided to take inspiration from Spotify and made a “ play screen” for one of my favourite albums by Celebrity Skin. I decided to include two lines of information about the album as well to mimic a Spotify feature where information about the artist is shown at the bottom of the screen, and to fill the space and give it a little more substance overall.
