In this project alone, I learned how crucial using auto layout is for components to work efficiently and look professional. For the text as well.

What was easy?

Using Smart animation for buttons.

What was challenging?

Animating the map was a bit stressful at first, but the instructor told me to use auto layout, and it made things clearer.

How could your submission be improved?

Being more organized and assigning names to Flows made my project and work more organized and easier to read when I was fixing some minor flaws.

How could I improve the assignment for the next class?

For the next class, I would focus on any feedback from the instructor, but I might use more auto layout for text, shapes, and images.

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

I will apply it in future DMA classes using Figma or other animation apps.

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

The video where we learn how to create the progress bar was really helpful and made it easier to implement to my project.

In this project alone I learned how important using auto layout is for components to work efficiently and look professional.

What was easy?

Using auto layout was easy and pretty interactive in terms of using the tool.

What was challenging?

Getting to work the actual game, animating the background and the character (Mario).

How could your submission be improved?

Being more organized and naming more flows helps to better convey the experience of playing the game.

How could I improve the assignment for the next class?

For the next class, I would focus on any feedback from the instructor, but some flaws that I could fix are the button, as mentioned.

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

I will apply it in future DMA classes where Figma or other animation apps are being used.

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

Lab 4 motivated me to play around with the layouts.

In this project alone I learned how important using auto layout is for components to work efficiently and look professional.

• What was easy?

Using auto layout was easy and pretty interactive in terms of using the tool.

• What was challenging?

At the Main Menu, the apps scrolling down were easy to do as I followed with the instructor, but trying to insert a text or picture into it was particularly challenging.

• How could your submission be improved?

I could add the hover effect to 1 or 2 more buttons, and I also could be more creative and add more details to the Play Song frames.

• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?

For the next class, I would focus on any feedback from the instructor, but some flaws that I could fix are the button, as mentioned.

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

I will definitely apply it in future DMA classes where Figma or other animation apps are being used.

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

The zoom video that lasted 2 hours really inspired me to play around with my color palette, add shadows from different angles, and adjust the transparency levels of some text boxes and rectangles.

I learned how to use VS Code to program my website page and also how to edit public websites by clicking the “inspect” button.

What was easy?  

I think working with Figma to make the website was the easiest part of this project.

How could your submission be improved?  

Fixing the many glitches and bugs of my website page.

How could the professor improve the assignment?

Maybe updating the content for some of the power point slides of this project.

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

I will definitely focus on getting used to apps such as VS Code to avoid falling behind the rest of the class.

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

The power point helped a lot.

Making and working with this app allowed me to learned about prototype-building mechanics and also its importance of connecting all the elements, components, figures, and many other things that are part of the project.

• What was easy?

I found relatedly easy creating components and prototypes. To be more specific, at first it was a little tricky to manage but it all made sense once I reviewed the recorded lessons and gave a few more tries.

• What was challenging?

I found particularly challenging working with the buttons, specially the part where we had to add like a second color to it.

• How could your submission be improved?

Since some of them are not working properly, my submission could be improved by fixing up the color that should appear after I click on the buttons.

• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?

Even if it’s not needed, the professor could give more emphasis on how to make a proper logo.

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

I would apply my knowledge in future assignments by giving emphasis towards the design because I noticed that editing multiple times not only fixes a lot of bugs and mistakes, but also adds vivid elements and clarity to the overall design of the project.

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I don’t have a specific reading or video that inspired me to do the project, but it was really helpful and motivating when the professor went over the projects of my classmates because I got the chance to fix some similar issues and also be more creative with it.

Link to project 1:

https://www.figma.com/file/itvtA72S8XzVfzg7oRT78D/gabrielrodriguez-DMA217-Project1-(Copy)?type=design&node-id=0%3A1&mode=design&t=5yXFRxdYBSbn1AMz-1