project3-preliminary designs

[david_wolstenholm]

Here are my preliminary designs. For the first design, I was just going for something a little upbeat with a splash of color—no particular color palette, just randomness. I just did something a little spacey and weird for the second design. I hope y'all like them. it seems during transport I lost my navigation on my design 1 computer page. please excuse.

[Instructor]

Oh, I like your second design, David. It has a falling meteor feeling. Or maybe one of those pinball counting animations from Sesame Street.

I love the motion this design has. It really grabs the eye and forces it from the top left to the bottom right. And the speed lines and nav buttons look like motion blur. Having the TMCC logo on the "pinball" was an excellent choice as well. It's visually dominant and where the eye comes to rest in the composition. The navigation is certainly easy to see and probably to use given it's placement and criticality to the composition. And each button feels like an echo of the "pinball". I also like how your bodycopy cascades down next to the navigation, providing little jumping off points for the eye in your layout. The department logo looks like some sort of light up arcade sign as well, so that fits with your pinball motif.

Center aligned type is always a little tough to read when it's not a headline. I'd highly recommend left aligning your bodycopy. If you want to preserve the block look, maybe justify it. That'll give you what you're looking for while being easier to read. I'm not sure they type's right either. Might want to look into a sans-serif type. I actually like the white background from your design 1 inner page and the way the colors relate to one another I'm wondering how your pinball layout might look with a white background on it's inner or home pages. I'd shrink your TMCC logo so it's not touching the edges of the "pinball". And I'd recommend doing your nav button text in white.

Not bad!

[Lhart]

Hi David!

Both Designs are very fun and have lots of motion. The shapes youre making would let you really organize where a viewers eye travels.
The first design, both black and white is interesting and its cool that you would know a light page in main page but a darker one would be deeper in the navigation.

Nice job!

[Emily-Hudson]

Hi David,

I like the layouts with the white background the most, I think it fits better with the color pallet you chose for the rest of your graphics. Although I love the fonts on their own, I think they're adding more distraction than they are adding to your website layouts. Try an easier on the eyes type sans serif, especially for your body texts. Fonts are fun to find!

Great work so far, excited to see the finished thing!