Over the last few years, we have a seen a significant increase in not only social media users, but social media advertising and marketing. From this apps have been developed to make content creation for social media campaigns even easier and people are able to run them even with just their phones. The task: The …
What is AI? Artificial intelligence (AI) is a machine with the ability to perform functions normally associated with humans, for example creating images and writing copy can now be done through AI. Although AI can be preferable due to its speed and efficiency, it has been argued that because it is artificial, the work created …
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For my design portfolio, I have chosen to create a blog style website aimed at new parents called ‘not the main character’. I have named the blog this in reference to when you have a baby for the first time, everything becomes about them, hence making the parent ‘not the main character’. The following is …
A social media campaign is a marketing plan created generally by large companies to generate sales or to spread a message or awareness. This can be done through organic advertising or paid advertising. organic is when a company does not pay for views or clicks and uses engaging posts onto social media (be that on …
In terms of graphic design, brutalism is a style that attempts to look raw, haphazard or unadorned (Moran K., 2017). Looking at brutalistwebsites.com, they are a complete different style to what would be expected from a web page; they are bold, seemingly random in placement, and some difficult to navigate, which after studying accessibility last …
A visually responsive website is a website that will adapt to what device the user is using and still be accessible. For example, often in an app the menu which is horizontal on the website, is condensed into a side bar, which is accessed by tapping on 3 horizontal lines (sometimes called a hamburger menu). …
For this exercise, we were told to create a new Elementor page, and given files to use to create our own parallax. Step 1 Add a single column section and change the colours as shown. Add a section heading called Parallax Exercise. Add another single column section below the first. Use the space scene to …
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For this task we were asked to look at a site that Chris Newell helped build many years ago: https://www.spellzone.com/. We were asked to analyse the site and its onboarding process, while using Rolfe’s ‘What? So what? Now what?’ (fearlessculture.design, n.d.): Do an analysis of the onboarding and the design of the pre login or …
This task was based upon responsive web design. By ensuring a webpage is responsive, it means that the webpage is accessible on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Elementor, has a view for each of the devices, so you are able to look and see how the page will look on different devices without having to …
For this class we began first by presenting the assessment RP2. Following this we proceeded to the group activity for email marketing. Firstly, we signed up for mailchimp. Mailchimp is a marketing platform that specialises in email marketing, it allows users to send up to 2500 emails for free before having to join the paid …
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