Emily Scherer

1. What did you learn?

I learned how to cover backgrounds and all the different ways you can do that. There were many different tools you can use to get rid of the background of a photo and it was easy to figure out. I also learned that if you do command J it will let you choose a section of the image and put it on top of another section and then I lowered the opacity so it blended in with the background. 

2. What was easy?

What was easy was importing my individual photos into the template and using the tools I was taught to remove the background of the pictures so you could blend them together. 

3. What was challenging?

What was challenging was that my background color and pattern didn’t really work with my images and my pattern was so intense that I couldn’t see the color of the background and didn’t come through or blend well together. Also what was challenging was creating the mobile version from the desktop version and definitely struggled with that but was able to figure it out after watching the class video. 

4. How could your submission be improved?

My submission was improved by a lot because when I first submitted it the images weren’t blended and were just each placed on the template and saw the pattern and the color of the background and just didn’t look great and then when I realized what I needed to do I redid it and made the images all blend together and definitely looked a whole lot better. 

5. How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

You could improve the assignment by maybe taking out the background color and creating a pattern because I feel like for at least mine, it didn’t really fit in the whole scheme and worked better if you just used your images and overlapped them and took a section of a image and put it on top of another image with low opacity. 

6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I will apply my knowledge that I learned in this project to help me on future projects and labs that we will be doing in class and can also help me in classes I will be taking next semester and is just a good skill to have when applying for jobs/internships. 

7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

The Erik Johansson surreal photography website helped me on this project because it inspired me to think outside of the box and not make my project so basic. 

Emily Scherer

https://www.figma.com/file/RL4W6eRZtjZQiHr6YPGhS9/Project-2?node-id=4%3A12

1. learned how to add more animation to the frame and app than I did in the first one. I learned how to use smart animate and how to use fewer frames with the new feature and using my design system to make it easier for me to make the design and text the same on each frame so I didn’t have to do it manually each time. 

2. What was easy for me was creating the format and structure for the game and coming up with the frames and writing what everyone’s score is and whose turn it was and drawing the pictures and just coming up with the whole idea. 

3.  What was challenging for me was making the app interactive and giving it more animation because I had trouble trying to figure out how to make a button look like it was clicked and show that a person guessed the word. I had to work through this to make my app more interesting and entertaining because if there wasn’t any interaction or animation then it would be boring. 

4. My submission could have been improved by adding even more animation and interaction to the frames and possibly figuring out how to show the picture being drawn and show what the players are seeing. I feel like that would be a really interesting touch to the project. 

5. I don’t believe you could improve this project because it was very straightforward because it was just making an app for people to use when they have to quarantine and this project gave us the opportunity to be as creative as we want and do pretty much anything and I think that it was a good idea to let us be in charge of how to create our projects and not just tell us what to do or design. You were so helpful and really helped bring our designs to life when we didn’t know how to do something and give us ideas when we got stuck and made us think outside the box. 

6. I will apply this project to future assignments and in my career, because I will use the knowledge I gained to help me understand prototyping and interaction more in case I need it in my future job and will be prepared. 

7. The video you showed us in class about the new way that came out on Figma for prototyping really helped me because it was so much easier and a big time saver. I didn’t have to make as many slides because of how I could just put them in my design system and would work for my whole project. I remember how much of a pain it was for the first project having to create a frame for each thing and was way too time-consuming. 

Emily Scherer

Urban city- Analogous

Seascape- Complementary

Arid desert- Triadic

Outer Space- Split complementary

1. I learned how to create a color scheme like split complementary and match it with a landscape like desert. 
2. The easy thing was creating the shapes and design of the frames to match the landscapes like extraterrestrial I made planets and stars. 
3. What was challenging was to create a color scheme with one color and different hues because I felt like I kept wanting to choose different colors. 
4. My submission could be improved by fixing some of the rules that I may be breaking like don’t be a wimp and make things bigger and also not have things so symmetrical and diagonal symmetry. 
5. You could improve the project by adding two color schemes in one landscape to make it a little more challenging. 
6. I will apply this to my future job because I will know the color schemes and how to design a website with a working color scheme. This will be beneficial instead of choosing random colors I think look good together
7. Design principles: Smashing magazine made me have a different perspective because I never thought too in depth about the use of color and similarity and contrast and how important it is.