When most people think about graphic design, they usually think about the visual components of design such as logos, or how something is styled. What rarely comes to mind to everyone else besides designers however is typography. Typography can make or break a design and learning to understand the similarities and differences between type faces […]

Brand Plan and Design In the first week of our course (ICM 502 Visual Design) we explored branding and the different steps it takes to create a brand plan. Visual Design in the corporate world means creating unique markings or logos and brand visuals that identify specific companies. Part of this week’s lesson was to […]

Content creation, as the course is titled, is an opportunity to showcase the work that we can do. Along the way through this program we learn about different fields and work through digital media. I work as a UI/UX Designer as my day job, but I feel that my skill set goes a lot deeper […]

The process of picking out a project to work on was an interesting start to this course. I could have easily picked a UI/UX project but I decided that in this course, I would try something new. I work as a UX Designer at my job and am constantly working on UX related tasks such […]

Designing an app or any digital product is an exciting task to undertake, but as UX designers there are proven processes that we learn and understand when we start working on these products. Design thinking is a widely accepted and adopted method designers use to create USER-FOCUSED designs. Without these kinds of methods designing would […]

Invision link: https://angelvazquez843704.invisionapp.com/console/share/GX1X17J9RD/496802079 Wireframes: It’s the final week of this course and with all my artifacts in order, and my work management up to date, journals turned, bibliography annotated in and final prototype made, the process of content creation is completed. I have learned a lot in this course but mainly I have understood how […]

Finding the right way to progress in this project has been challenging, mostly because 7 weeks, which may seem like a long time, is not enough time to dig into research and nail down specifics in user needs, as well as specifics in design choices based on the guidelines set by the research phase. When […]

Now on Module 4, and with my list of artifacts growing I realize I have to take a step back and assess where I am at in this content creation journey. This week I took time to refine the interview questions in the interview script, continued working on the preliminary wire frames I know I […]

As I have progressed my project for this course along, I have gathered a substantial amount of sources during my research. I have spent time creating artifacts that I am working on, to bring this project to an eventual close with finished deliverables. These artifacts are wireframes, journey maps, discovery phase research such as my […]

This week marks phase two of project research. While I have 30 sources already for this project, I will continue to add to my bibliography and start annotating work. There are many aspects and perspectives when it comes to the food industry that can be analyzed and assessed in order to understand the pocket and […]