Conceptual Design Research Planning

The first concept I had planned on doing was to start with the NHS logo and have the lines move to make it into a £ sign. After looking at the concept, I decided against it because I felt it was very simple and did not give the message I wanted. It was from there, …

Ethical or Sustainable Subject

Following the effects of COVID-19, the already underfunded NHS now has over seven million people in the UK currently waiting for treatment (The Health Foundation, 2022). The NHS has truly reached its breaking point. For this topic, I did consider doing the subject on environmental issues, but struggled to find a specific subject that I …

Research for my Design Portfolio

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 …

RP6 – Social Media Channels

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 …

RP5 – Websites That Break the Rules

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 …

RP4 – Visual Responsive Websites

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). …

Development Blog 9 – Overview of Advanced Techniques

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 …

Development Blog 8 – Spellzone Team Activity

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 …

Development Blog 7 – Responsive Design

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 …