Month: March 2014

mid-term

food timer

I focused on reading topics I’m interested in. And here are my thoughts:

Enlightened
I focused on reading an article about Apple’s UI elements. Apple has specific guidelines for user interface elements with consistency. I like how Apple combines their design principle to their apps in unity style and how they keep their identity. For this reason, I prefer App design for iOS than Android.

Confused
Since the appearance of iPhone, Apple takes care of user experience and they added some finger gestures for action. However, I’m still confused with this because I sometimes don’t know what gestures I need to do for some apps.

NightSnack 3.0_ Presentation

Mock up in Pop:
https://popapp.in/projects/5321da0fba4822b65f33f7d1/preview

The 3rd iteration
 

 

Final Design (See pictures above)

Initial Prototype
Wireframe Iteration

Design Iteration

Gustatory Presentation Slides
Pop App Prototype

wooof presentation 0313

 

Mock up in POP app:
https://popapp.in/w#!/projects/5321435fba4822b65f33f067/preview/532145b1e0689d031a90ba8f?transition=none&t=1394690836001

presentation slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TvSpHVsowpjhl0lrrgs-nM5L9HQNhUy_nIW6RrfSX00/edit?usp=sharing

 

This is another simple but beautiful app that I really like, the graphic design is very neat. The goal of this app is trying to introduce the 16 most popular espresso-based drinks.

 

https://popapp.in/w#!/projects/53218303ba4822b65f33f322/preview?replay=true

One of the applications I brought up in class was called PolyFauna, which was collaboration between Radiohead and Universal Everything. It is an experimental application that allows users to be immersed in an abstract world of graphics and sounds. To navigate throughout the world the user can just turn their phone and look around, moving it around them to see the world from different angles. The application does not tell you anything but instead allows the user to discover how to use the application through trial and error, which suits this experimental world. You learn that there are more useful ways of navigation by swiping rather than having to physically face your phone in different directions, which become part of the journey in learning about the app. There are 3 icons on the bottom which allow the user to take a photograph of what they have created, go to the website, and are told about the red dot that they can follow. This is a very interesting navigation tool; if you make the red dot collide with you then you are taken to a different world. It’s a new way of doing things rather than just pressing a button, and while it definitely is not easier because often you miss the dot as it passes you, it does make the experiment feel more like a game or challenge even though it isn’t.

 

http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/take-deep-dive-strange-mind-radiohead-new-app/

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/polyfauna/id793263070?mt=8

 

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/polyfauna1.png

 

Samir