What Did You Learn?

Overall the main thing I learned in this is to not overcomplicate things. When I began I thought bigger and realized it was becoming too crowded. From there I made the font more normal and made my color scheme far less involved.

What Was Easy?

Once I got my idea down the actual transition from panel to panel was quite simple. Once I decided to keep it simple the flow of doing certain tasks was very simple.

What Was Challenging?

The most challenging thing for me in this particular project was designing the icons. This is because I felt that they became too simple. However when I tried to add more complex icons I felt like they were out of place with the rest of the design. In the end while I think they came out okay I definitely found it to be the most challenging aspect of this project.

How Could Your Submission Be Improved?

I think my submission could be improved in my maze scoring. In the end I don’t feel I gave good enough hints/instructions on how to accomplish certain tasks. Other than maze I would say once again my icons. While they are solid I feel they could be improved apon.

How Could I Improve The Assignment For The Next Class?

I would say spend a little more time with maze. I felt like it was thrown at me and while simple took me a couple looks to fully understand. I did feel like you gave us just the right amount of tasks and I am not sure I would have been able to accomplish this task as well as I did with additional things thrown our way.

How Might You Apply Your Knowledge In Future Assignments Or Work Scenarios?

I think I would apply knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios by taking a step back and planning the way I did. In this particular project I planned out how I wanted the different screens to interact and that reduced plenty of time in this project. I would do the same for future projects as planning ahead could potentially save me a lot of time.

How Did a Specific Reading Or Video Inspire Or Help You?

I didn’t have any true inspirations for this project however, the labs assigned at the begining of the year teaching us figma in a more in depth manor really helped. Without these I feel I wouldn’t have ended up with such a solid project.

Principals Used:

Continuation: Used in frame 1. Elements following the cow in a smooth line are perceived as a group and are interpreted as being more related than elements not on the line. Another group that could be interpreted as being more related than elements not on the line are the circles located on the moon.

Closure: Used in frame 2. Our eyes “close off” the implied edge of the moon. When we look at a crescent moon, or even a half moon, we imagine the moon as a round whole, rather than as a sliver.

Proximity: Used in frame 3. The elements that are closer together on the fiddle are perceived to be more related than elements that are farther apart behind it.

Shared Fate: Used in frame 4. The idea that something outside of a group can be considered part of the group by dynamic forces at work, such as motion. In this case the laughing of the dog in the top right can be associated with the dog in the bottom left.

Similarity: Used in frame 5. The elements that look like a pair of eyes are similar and perceived to be more related than elements that are dissimilar spread out across the background.

Repetition: The lines on the road create the same visual element or effect over and over. This creates a tendency to perceive a set of individual elements as a single, recognizable pattern, rather than multiple, individual elements.

Reflection:

Overall, this project taught me a multitude of things. The most obvious thing I learned was the gestalt principles as I had never heard of these until class. It also made much more sense once we began actually working on the actual projects as it reinforced the ideas presented in lecture. I also never knew about the rule of thirds. This made a huge difference and I feel helped make the frames look far more aesthetically pleasing.

I wouldn’t say this lab was easy but it was definitely simple. It was simple in the sense that creating 6 tiles of a nursery rhyme isn’t too bad. What made it difficult was showing a line of these rhymes with just basic shapes, as well as NO color.

At the end of the day I thought my project came out great. The only thing I would redo would make the lines following the cow in frame 1 arc around the moon.

For project 1 we were tasked with creating a portfolio of 16 images that have a personal meaning to us. My first thought was to do the 05-06 and 06-07 Sabres teams, however we had to use original images and finding newspapers to scan with those team pics in them would have been very difficult to accomplish. Instead I turned to Star Wars. One of my earliest memories was of my Dad and I watching “A New Hope” on VHS in the basement. He had to convince my mom to let us watch it since she thought it was to violent. But ever since then I was hooked. I started collecting the books and comics and just became enamored with the lore. Whenever I was board or feeling down and out I just went in my room and explored this galaxy far far away. The pictures I used for this project were either scanned in or taken with my phone camera. They represent all different eras of lore with the first pic taking place over 5000 years before Episode 4: “A New Hope” and the last taking place nearly 120 years after that movie.