GRC 175 Learning and Discussion Forum

Hi Adrian, I love how decorated you made your preliminary roughs, especially the fish-themed one! I think it was a great idea that you decided to really personalize your layouts because it makes your homepage look exciting to navigate, drawing attention to the viewer. One thing I would suggest is to...

Hi Quentin, I like how you took in a lot of consideration when playing around with the size of your type, especially with how you decided to go big and bold with your name. One thing I would suggest is to maybe consider how bright the white background is in one of your computer roughs, and to match ...

Hi Lakelyn, I think both of your preliminary designs look really awesome, and I think the layout of your navigation looks really good too! The way you made the background graphics subtle was a really successful decision, because it doesn't take away from the main content on the homepage. One thing I...

Hi Jacobo, I really like the starry night and cherry blossom designs you did in your layouts! I also like the creative direction you decided to go with your project links as well. However, I think in your starry night designs that if you put in some sort of graphic for your resources, like with your...

Hi Lucio, I really like the creative direction you decided to go with your designs, and I love the overall concept and fonts you used for the corkboard design! I also really like your sketchbook design and how you made your portrait look like an actual sketch. One thing I would recommend is to play ...

Hi Jonathan, Out of all three preliminary roughs, I think your color palettes work pretty well and are consistently pleasing on the eyes. I do really like how you used a multitude of different images throughout your designs, and I like how you used those images to convey a sense of personality and c...

Hi Jose, I love that muted sage green color and simple mountain background you have in your first design, and really like how bold you decided to go with the overall presentation of the second design! However, I do think there are some minor issues with how different the fonts in the green and yello...

Hi Gerardo, I really like how different your two preliminary designs turned out! I do like the overall concept with the black and red design, especially with that cool Japanese theme in the background, but I do think it's hard to read the red text and it takes away from the focus on the project link...

Hi Adrian, I like the difference between the warm vs. cool tones you chose for your two designs. I also think your use of readable fonts makes your designs successful in seeing it from far away. However, I would suggest maybe sizing up the project links and resources because they're really small in ...

Hi Crane, I think your decision to make the background of both of your designs an old vintage paper texture was really cool! I also think it was successful that you decided to add a brown box behind your "all about me" text because it's really easy to read and stands out when you look at i...