I thought it was easy to use the program because I really enjoyed the fact that you can view and run your project. It made it much easier to do the project because I wanted to make it the best I could and it was portrayed as not only visible, but also interactive. I also thought it was much easier than I thought to make a basic app than I made it out to be. I know this was just a very basic app but I thought there would have been more tasks assigned to the computer than there were to complete it because I inspected what I made and the coding didn’t seem that terrible.

I found it challenging to explore what we didn’t learn. Photoshop was easier to do tasks that we didn’t learn yet, but it was much harder to explore new tasks in Figma. I added in a moving arrow gif which was easy but hard at the same time. It was easy in the sense that you could just save a gif from the web, but it was hard in the sense that those weren’t that good so I had to copy it to photoshop, and alter it from there.

I could improve my submission by adding a few more slides to the app but besides that, I think I did a pretty good job. I could have also added more color to make it more appealing but I don’t know how to do that yet and I tried looking into to it and was still struggling.

Once again, I don’t think the professor could have made it better, but if I had to choose something, it would be to go over making the app look more colorful with a better appearance than just a solid color background, but, then again, we were already learning new stuff every class so it would have been hard to fit that in.

I can apply this knowledge into my future because I am looking at doing business or marketing and computer science and design is relevant in both of those. I will be able to use the knowledge of Figma if my future company needs help designing a web page because it is a good way to view it on any device.

The article that helped me most in the project was “Vector vs. Raster: What Do I Use?” by Carrie Cousins. Honestly, none of the articles personally helped me too much but this one was able to give the insight to be creative. I couldn’t use a logo because I didn’t have time to make one, but I used a gif arrow to bring a little bit more life to the app.

This is a screen shot of my app. The launch button redirects you to the second slide, the back button in the top left redirects you back a page, the home button in the bottom right redirects you to the first slide, and the profile button redirects you to the past slide. In addition, the red arrow moves up and down when you open the side so you know where to click and for more movement with the app because there wasn’t any besides that and the slides transitions.

I thought it was easy to import images as well as apply color and the text to the card but it got harder when you had to make the inside and all the small steps to make the background a smart image or so that the pixels wouldn’t change up the image if it was enlarged.

I also found it challenging to have to learn a new way of doing something because in my Forensics class we learned how to erase where you wanted an image gone but I never thought enough about it to realize you can’t bring that back, so it was hard to adjust to using the black and white drawing tool to hide or show the background. It was also hard to do the front cover because I decided I wanted to do something different so I imported the image of the skull and put it on top of the island but it was time consuming to need to make the island look like it fit as well as making the tall grass pieces go over the island and skull to make it look more realistic.

I could improve my submission by adding more color to the card because it is all black but at the same time I like how it has a dark and eerie appearance to it.

I don’t think the professor could improve the assignment honestly. He prepared us well and even recorded what we did daily so you couldn’t say you didn’t know what you were doing.

I will be able to apply the knowledge I gained through this assignment into future assignments because I now know how to import a smart object, how to hide or show more of a background, and just a better general feel for photoshop overall.

There was a specific article that helped me in my project and it was How to Design a Font by Malia Wollan. It helped me in an unheard of way by making my project last longer than it needed to. After reading about how much goes into making a font, I really took my time choosing one because I had much more input into not only how long it took to make but more so how each font has a personality and it changes the way the card is viewed.

Front of card

Inside the card

Back of card