Arts Festival

My Project

Due to the pandemic, this was the furthest that I was able to get, in completing my project for the keyboard:

I was not able to light up all the keys because I did not have time for it. However, I was able to create the basic structure for the keyboard. My intentions were to first create the base model of a tkl keyboard, then add my own designs to it. Plans were to create the small details of a keyboard so that when I animate it all coming together. It would have more components, adding more variety to the construction of the keyboard. 

Process

In the process of making the keyboard, I made the switch to the new version of blender. The transition wasn't bad at all, and I like the new version of blender much better. Moving on to the creation process of keyboard:

Base of Keyboard

Making the Switches

Adding Switches to Keyboard

Making Keycaps

Adding Simple Texture and Lighting (3 designs)

Adding Lettering

Design Process Investigation

The Design Process

From what I've learned, the designed process "is an approach for breaking down a large project into manageable chucks. Architects, engineers, scientists, and other thinkers use the design process to solve the variety of problems. Use this process to define the steps needed to tackle each project, and remember to hold to all of you ideas and sketches throughout the process."

In the website that I have done my research, they showed 6 steps for the design process.

Define the Problem

You can't find a solution until you have a clear idea of what the problem is. By clearing defining the problem, it will allow you to go about the process in a much more structured way.

Collect Information

Collect sketches, take photographs and gather data to start giving you inspiration. The only way that you're gonna be able to create something that will last, is if you educate yourself in the topic or product that you are trying to improve.

Brainstorm and Analyze Ideas

Begin to sketch, make, and study so you can start to understand how all the data and information you've collected may impact your design. Don't forget that you're not the only one that comes up with ideas, and someone else may have an intuitive solution, that you may have overlooked. You can take that and incorporate it into your design.

Develop Solutions

Take you preliminary ideas and form multiple small-scale design solutions. One solution never seems to be enough to fix the problem. When you bring out a product that solves one problem, it won't satisfy the user as much. If you put out a product with much less flaws than the last, you will impress the user.

Gather Feedback

Present you ideas to as many people as possible: friends, teachers,  professionals, and any others you trust to give insightful comments. The best way to please the people, is to know what the people want.

Improve

Reflect on all of your feedback and decide if or to what extend it should be incorporated. It is often helpful to take solutions back through the Design Process to refine and clarify them.

Web Designer Investigation

Web Designer

What is web design?

After searching through some websites, I found some detailed and some not so detailed. Some ranging from, "Web design refers to the design of websites that are displayed on the internet". To, "Web design is the process of planning, conceptualizing, and arranging content intended for the internet. Modern web design goes beyond how things look (aesthetics) to include how things work (functionality). Web design is not limited to websites as it includes other uses such as web apps, mobile apps, and user interface design". Strangely enough, it was quite easy to find a lot information about web design on the web...

From what I have learned from what I've read, web design has a lot of potential and allows someone to really create their own business. It allows you to put your opinion out there, and people can go to your website. Almost every modern business now needs to have a website in order to survive. You need that quick communication with the outside world, so that they can interact with you and your website. If you don't have a good website, then they will most likely be not willing to learn more about you and whatever your pursuing or doing. 

Web design surrounds our lives, it's hard to go a day without interacting without some of sort of online fabrication made by someone or some company. As the name entails, it involves the creator to think of some way to make it most intuitive for user experience. The designer needs to think how the user will think when first going through the website. Will they be lost? Will they be able to find what they want in a reasonable amount of time? Will the process of buying the product be nice and simple for the user? You need to ask yourself so many simple question when designing a website, or else your website might fail.

Web design is a rapidly growing thing, you see software that people can use to make their own website, but guess what, that also involves an aspect of web design. The layout of the website needs to be clear, it can't be annoying to have to click on the super small button that you finally found in the bottom right corner of the screen. Web design is also very easy to get started with, you don't really need any money to start and there are so many tutorial on the internet. Personally, web design is a great way to start if you want to grab your creative side on the internet.