Kiana Young

Mahalo,

I planned out all the components of my website first before I began to build.

I decided to lean more towards the dark green forest feel for this website and maybe add in some sunset tones on one or two of the pages. Overall I want it to be clean and interesting to look at so that readers don’t get bored.

I also decided that I was going to use Wix to build my website. I was going to use Figma but I realized that it is more of a prototype builder and I want to be able to publish this website for people to see and also maybe share this in the future with people who want to learn more about the island.

Sharon Grant

Randy Gibbson

I curated these two user personas off of some actual people that I have met during my time as a tour guide. I also chose these two because they fit the two kinds of people that I see most who enjoy visiting the island.

I will admit that I am not the best at posting, not only here, but on all my social sites. With that being said, I have been keeping up with and documenting my time doing my senior project, so let’s get caught up shall we.

I’ll be posting a few updates in a row to show the timeframe/succession of events and what I’ve been up to during the curation of this project.

I have begun shooting and editing the video for my website that will be the introduction to Kauai, and the first thing that people see on the website.

I was teetering a bit on doing complete interviews for the website or just getting quotes from people around the community. I feel that either would have the same effect and may add another element besides videos to this website. 

Following this I am focusing the majority of my time right now designing my website, figuring out color palettes, positioning of buttons, icons, information, etc. 

I’m focusing a lot of time on this, because I really want this website to be pleasing to look at so that anyone who visits the website can spend a good amount of time browsing without getting bored. 

 First off my Timeline:

User Persona/ Website (Sep/Oct) -> Video Footage (Oct) -> Editing (Oct) -> Interview (Nov) -> Editing (Nov) -> Final Website (Dec)

I’ve also been able to construct most of my user personas, I still have some touching up to do. After that I can solidify a color palette and work on designing the website.

Currently I have a rough outline of my plan for this semester and how I am going to attack this project. I want to focus on building the website first and getting it all set up before starting on the video making portion. I will then focus on the videos, the main introduction video and the interview videos.

Where are you headed?

I am working on how I want to situate my website now and build the pages. The main hurdles that I may encounter may include, not liking how the website looks (professionally), finding information, and making it interesting for the people visiting. I can avoid this by using my imagination/creativity and researching.

1st Entry: Video Introduction :)