Week 1 – Franky Wang

Franky Wang


My name is Franky Wang, I started my career as a designer in Beijing, China. During my past several years of study, I have been trying to break myself from traditional culture atmosphere through the trend of modern art and design.

I have a strong awareness of designer’s social responsibility, especially when they are playing a role to lead a better life for people. In this case, I managed to create works for the public which could be both educational, and creative.

APP map assignment

I created a food APP called DishExpo, in which users can take photos of their favorite dishes from restaurants, post it and recommend it to other users. By editing the simple information of the dish and the restaurant, every user becomes a dish referral. Because of people’s appreciation for elegant looks of nice dishes, the APP in return gives users a direct choice purely according to the photos of dishes.

Wireframe

3 things I didn’t know from the Apple HIG or the Material Design Guidelines

1 – Three Navigation Styles

+++Hierarchical Navigation

One choice per screen until reaching a destination. (Setting and Mail)

+++Flat Navigation

Switch between multiple content categories. (Music and App store)

+++Content-Driven or Experience-Driven Navigation

Move freely through content. (Immersive apps like games)

2 – Branding and iOS APP design

Make the app feel like an iOS app. Ensure that it’s intuitive, easy to navigate, easy to use, and focuses on content. Avoid displaying a logo throughout the app unless its necessary for providing context. This is especially important in navigation bars, where a title is more helpful.

3 – Resting Elevation of Material Design

All material objects, regardless of size, have a resting elevation, or default elevation that does not change.

How you determine the elevation of objects – their position in z-space – depends on the content hierarchy you want to express and whether an object needs to move independently of other objects.

One thought on “Week 1 – Franky Wang”

  1. It’d be nice for you to indicate what view that we’re on, even on the wireframe.

    How will “Top Recommendation” work in 2.0? It seems problematic that the aspect ratio of that image is different than the main posts. What’s the most useful way to show posts to users there? You have “all” instead of friends (side note, how do I add a friend? I only see following.)

    On 1.1 photo editing, if you’re really going to offer all of those options, you should to document how each will work. That said, do you need all of those options for now?

    It should be easy to identify the restaurant that you’re at with location services in 1.2.

    Once you publish from 1.2, I’m unclear about where I’m taken as you have two lines coming from that button.

    2.0.1 doesn’t need a back button. The “Done” button is enough.

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