GRC 175 Learning and Discussion Forum

Greetings from afar classmates!

For my final designs I went with my version 01 layouts. I felt the colors reflected myself and my personal paragraph more than my other layout. I also picked version to move forward with because I think it filled the space of the layout better. Plus I enjoy the texture of my photograph in the header and how it reminds me of some techniques I used when I was really into scrapbooking. Overall I just found this version to be more fun/bright.

I took several actions to clean up my final design. For one, I added a slight drop shadow to my name so it stands out better on the textured header. I did the same for my flower, as well as made it slightly smaller, so it stands out from the orange a bit more. I adjusted the size of my navigation buttons a tad to make them more defined/legible. I also adjusted my text boxes so they were farther away from the edges of my colored boxes. I also took the advice of almost everyone and changed my paragraph font to white and it is much easier to read.

I used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6HaTRvcMiU as an informational resource to help me center various components of my layout. I found it extremely helpful for my text boxes especially.
I also used https://www.technokids.com/blog/apps/wr ... toshop-cc/ to help me get my navigation buttons to follow the path of my header/boarder.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's final drafts!

i love how everything follows together and nothing seems to be out of place. Its very organized and clean. I really like the color choices and it seems to really represent you. My favorite part is in the header and how the lines criss-cross to give it an interesting design to look at. Good job!

The simple shapes that were used to make this design feels really thought out, and the texture you gave those shapes are awesome. The flow and placement of everything is pleasing to my eye. Overall I just like the whole layout of your design choices.

Charlie Johnson

These designs have a really good use of space! Everything feels very balanced and I think its very pleasing to look at while also being very legible!

Great job on the improvements. Definitely makes the designs a lot cleaner. The only suggestion I can give is for your mobile version to make your name stand out more and make the bottom information smaller. Again great job.

I really love the change to white font. It is so much more readable. I also really like your addition of drop shadow for the flower and words.

I feel like you could make your name an even darker orange to make it stand out more. I saw that you seem to have darkened it, but it doesn't seem like it is enough. I also think that if you added like a cool edge design for like the about me background box, that might be fun. Like, for example, if you had special scissors and were cutting paper, you can get all kind of edges. Maybe you can use like the pen tool to maybe get the effect. I have included a picture to show what I mean for spicing up the edges of the background box(es).

Great job!

I like the layout of the design and colors are interesting. The boxes within the space has a well balance design. Great job!
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Erik Reyes

I really like your design. It is a perfect color scheme that works well with your flower. Good job!

I like how clean and kind of soothing your designs are. The colors really work well together.

Greetings Kaitlin, how goes it out in the hinterlands?

I'm glad you picked this design. I love its texture, color, and the fact that it breaks the "rules" of rectangular design by having the top bar impinge upon the content area *gasp* Quelle horreur!. I also really like those buttons and how they melt up out of your content area. As for your changes, I think they came out well for the most part and add to an already good design. I find your text and image containers have not drifted too far apart either. Nice line walking with regard to margins on those.

I would have moved your object drop shadows over to the left and down slightly to match the colored "drop shadows" of your boxes. I also think you need a little more space between your "Spring 2019" and your TMCC logo on the bottom bar of your computer layout. I don't care for the narrowed class info on your phone version either. I think it would have looked better shrunk.

Great work!