Category / Thesis Project

by AndrianaArt

Journal

Goals:

  • get back into the swing of things and plan out my last month of working on my thesis, prepare for final review 08/06/2015!!
  • set up a meeting with Fred McHale to go over some thesis specifics, use the workshops for general questions
  • review mind map and information structure

Issues covered/Response from advisor:

  • review my personas and make sure they line up with my current app goals
  • if I have any questions about my final thesis, feel free to ask!

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Goals for next week:

  • get a rough draft of my entire thesis book ready for review in the workshops
  • update my info structure to reflect current prototype
by AndrianaArt

Re-Design of the Thesis Book

This week I finally dove into InDesign and created a new look for my final Thesis Book for the Gather project. I created a page style that included a footer with consistent information and to reinforce my color scheme and style. There are two new pages since the last update: Logo & Mobile App styling page and the Mobile Style Guide page. I hope to build this out to incorporate the rest of my pages when I re-visit User Experience this summer.

 

by AndrianaArt

Journal

Goals:

  • re-design my thesis book to match my visual design deliverable pages
  • evaluate my peer testing of my prototype
  • update my portfolio for job applications and interviews
  • reflect upon what I have accomplished and learned this semester

Issues covered/Response from advisor:

  • based on peer review, updated the wireframe and mockup thesis book pages to have easier to read numbered sections

Goals for next week:

  • take a break!
by AndrianaArt

Journal

Goals:

  • set up complete task flows for my functional prototype
  • figure out PhoneGap and getting a rough version of my application to my phone or use the web app method with an icon on the home screen
  • make changes to prototypes based off of click through testing
  • finalize all of my visual design related pages for my thesis book

Issues covered/Response from advisor:

  • re-visit the filtering functionality of jQuery Mobile and see how I can use it in my prototype to guide test user’s searches

Goals for next week:

  • re-design my entire thesis book to match my visual design deliverable pages
  • evaluate my peer testing of my prototype
  • update my portfolio for job applications and interviews
by AndrianaArt

Journal

Goals:

  • finalize mockups and upload to InVision digital prototype
  • functional prototype: figure out map pinch/zoom for map and active search filter counter
  • continue to do user testing with UsabilityHub, click through tests
  • record another practice portfolio presentation for interviews and final review

Issues covered/Response from advisor:

  • my coded/functional prototype needs to only show my basic functionality and doesn’t need to be complete

Goals for next week:

  • set up complete task flows for my functional prototype
  • figure out PhoneGap and getting a rough version of my application to my phone
  • make changes to prototypes based off of click through testing
  • finalize all of my visual design related pages for my thesis book
by AndrianaArt

Journal

Goals:

  • make changes to prototype and mockups based on user feedback
  • update mockup pages with interactions for my thesis book
  • update functional prototype to better match mockups and try to get rid of that pesky text shadow in Chrome
  • practice job interview questions

Issues covered/Response from advisor:

  • be mindful of my text sizes and layouts on smaller screens
  • learned how to position div tags in layers using z-index

Goals for next week:

  • begin to build Javascript/jQuery interactions in CodePen and then into my prototype for the map and active search filter counter
  • add final mockups, create logo & type pages for my thesis book
  • continue to do user testing with UsabilityHub, this time a Click Through test