This
brief has been interesting; I have enjoyed learning about the limitations of
web, grid systems and types of websites. However, I am a bit disappointed that
I didn’t learn much about coding, but from what I did learn it has made me
realize just how difficult coding can be.
As
we had to design a website based on our summer brief and my summer brief was
quite broad there was various topics I could design my website for, I wanted to
be quite specific as it would make my target audience quite specific. I had
various ideas for the website, including a travel website, a website based on
chalkboard art and a sign writing website after various crits and discussions I
decided to go for the sign writing website. I chose this to design this website
as in the summer I interviewed a sign writer and he said that he doesn’t get
inspiration online he gets it all from books which I feel like is a shame
because there is so much hand rendered type and sign writing inspiration online
there just isn’t one place to get it all from. Also through out my though
research I realized that most sign writing websites look dull, boring and
uninspiring. I wanted to design my website for the target audience of young
creatives, to inspire, appreciate the art of sign writing and to keep sign
writing alive.
I
created many scamps looking into website layout and web safe grids, I wanted my
website to be a bit like a blog as the content would be constantly updated. I
started to research into types of websites, what’s popular and what would suit
my content best. I decided to go for a single page website with links to
videos, interviews articles ect. I needed to keep my user interested so I
decided to use a lot of bright colours for the buttons and colorful imagery. I
started to experiment with logo designs for my website, I wanted my logo to be
simple and show sign writing in some way. In a couple of crits I got feedback
on the logo/heading that I should do it in hand rendered type, I decided to go
against that as I feel there is so much imagery of hand rendered type/ sign
writing that the logo should be something much more simple.
I
started to digitally moc up my designs; I tried to keep my designs as simple as
possible with the possibility of coding it. I tried to keep it simple by using
one font and a simple grid as I have no idea how to code. I found out that we
didn’t have to code the website in the end, this was a relief as there really
wasn’t much time to learn it at all, but also a disappointment as it was
something I was really looking forward to doing in second year, in the future I
may look into coding myself.
Overall
I am happy with my design, I enjoyed learning about user experience within web,
how users interact with websites and what makes a good and bad design. Learning
about the limitations within web has also been interesting; I now appreciate web
design a lot more.
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