App
PDFs Venus -> mobile venus
Mars -> mars final
Mercury -> mercury final
Earth -> earth final
Website
As a PDF -> final website
Poster
Poster PDF -> poster final
Tag Archives: poster
Mockups
Edits
After my group feedback, I had a few changes to make.
Firstly, I added the status bar to the top of all the app pages that I had done. This will help them to look more realistic when I come to creating a mockup.
I also added a bit more information onto the bottom of my poster, which would advertize the website and app so people would know where to look at the full solar system.
I made a small app logo to add onto the bottom of my poster.
I think that the app logo at the bottom of the screen is very distracting from the main image as the light colour of Jupiter pulls focus from the rest of it. I am also not a very big fan of the design of my app logo so I think that I will leave it completely out.
Instead of using the app logo, I also tried out creating a QR code and placing that at the bottom. This way the poster would become sort of interactive as the user could scan the code and be taken straight to the app where they could see the full version of the space-time warp.
Again, I felt that the white background was very distracting from the rest of the poster. I didn’t want this as I wanted my poster to look fairly minimalistic and easy to understand without much clutter on the page. I felt that the QR code took up too much space down the bottom and made the poster look bottom heavy so I got rid of this too.
I think that I will leave the poster as just having the link to the website and app at the bottom of the page. I think that this looks better than having either the app logo or QR code as it spaces out the page better.
Group feedback
I made a short presentation to show the group my work for feedback which you can see here –> space presentation
This feedback was useful, as I not only got feedback from the group on my own ideas, I also managed to get a bit of inspiration from other group members work on little things, for example, adding in the top status bar at the top of the apps, or creating an app logo for the app store. All of this was useful.
A piece of feedback I received was that the perspectives on the website were slightly off, although worked, and to counteract this I could make my website 3D. This would involve more interactivity where the user would drag around and see the whole planet from every side. I think that this would be good and would make it even more interesting for my target audience.
I also asked the group whether they understood what my website was trying to explain with the grids as I was previously unsure about whether this was understandable. The feedback that I received was positive and so I will keep it this way.
There are still a few changes that I would like to make to my designs but only minimal ones. I may also try and create a logo for my app.
Making the poster
Making my poster was fairly straightforward as I knew what I wanted to do straight away. I had drawn a very rough sketch of how I wanted my poster to look so it was fairly easy to make.
I used the same background for the poster as I had done for the website, along with the same font (Science Fair). I then placed on the planet, I chose Earth as it is the planet most common to everyone, and drew a guide circle around it so that I could easily draw the bending grid around it. Doing the grid this way was fairly easy and I thought it looked most effective, although was incredibly annoying layering and arranging the different lines and whether they needed to be in front or behind of the planet. I decided to try this method out on my website at a later date.
In my initial sketch I had used the white triangle, which I had planned to use on my website and app to signify more information, but I felt that there wasn’t enough space for it and it wasn’t really necessary on the poster. I felt that it wasn’t necessary as both the website and app will be interactive, and on both of these the user will hover over, or click, on it and the information will appear below. On a poster this is not possible so I felt that the triangle would be unnecessary and would clutter the poster which I did not want. I wanted it to be fairly minimalistic, like the first bent grid inspiration image I found on my first ideas post.
Once I had positioned the planet and the grid I felt that there wasn’t enough space for the information about the space-time warp at the top so I placed it at the bottom.
I think that this fills the space better and doesn’t leave any huge empty spaces but also positions everything well.