DESIGN WORKSHOP

Electro TO Festival

Final Deliverables - Mobile App

Electro TO Festival

Electro TO Festival

Electro TO Festival

Electro TO Festival

Electro TO Festival

Environmental Design:  99 Sudbury, Club Spaces, Workshops/Talks

Environmental Design:  The Space at Yonge-Dundas Square

These are some sketches for the various elements included in my environmental design for the main event area, Yonge-Dundas Square.  The space will consist of the main stage, an ETO wall, and ETO hubs which will all follow branding standards and have an important part in making the event interactive and exciting.  

I plan on using neon lights (for a visual reference click here) at night time as part of the stage set up, or potentially set up on the ground throughout the square.  They will be on diagonals, following the visual language of the lines/diagonals of the ETO poster and identity.  

Promotional Material - Wristband Design

Mobile App:  Planning Notes and Critique

It's pretty difficult coming to terms with the fact that I'll (rather my entire class) be finishing up my undergrad in a few weeks, after being in school for nearly 20 years.  Of course there is no YSDN in February/March without a load of stress. You know how people have mid-life crises?  I think I had my "omg what am I going to do when school is over" crisis last week.  Assignments + work + grad show + post-grad thoughts + terrible weather to top it all off, had me in a state of confusion verging on panic.  

BUT after some personal time just taking a breather and telling myself that everything will be alright - I was able to get my head back on my shoulders and tackle my to-do list.  It has resulted in a few more *hibernation periods* (where I'm working for hours straight on something) than the doctor would recommend, but I think the sigh of relief that will follow later on will be worth it.

MOVING FORWARD...

After garnering feedback on my wireframes, I went back to my sketchbook and started looking at more potential screens for my ETO app.  What would be necessary to view in various scenarios?  For example, a new user registering - how would that look?  I created more screens and thought of the most common scenarios that would take place; while also fixing the organization of how the app works.

I also spent a good amount of time in my lion den (aka my workspace at home) designing the UI for the app.  Hours in the zone not even coding, but imagining how it would work.  To be honest, it took 10x longer than I had expected because it wasn't just bringing the wireframes into a new document and adding colour.  A lot of consideration had to be taken into how large type was set, what colours were appropriate for buttons, etc.  I was also discovering some kinks in my app flow as I went.

I finished up the majority of my screens and brought them into Marvel,  a prototyping app that links to Dropbox and pulls images, allowing you to create hotspots and imagine how the app would flow.  Unfortunately there are no gesture mock-ups, but you can add screen transitions to imitate them (fade, swipe, etc.)  Thank you to Rita Kassia for sharing this!

View the ETO app in its first round here:  http://marvl.in/3273e6