Professional Development Lvl 6

In this day and age, the need to inform young people about climate change has never been greater, it’s their future that will be impacted and we need to give them the adequate tools prepare foe. a cleaner and brighter future. 

One of the ways that they are tackling this is by targeting schools as they have the highest percentage of young people. The sustainable development commissions did a report on schools around the country and discovered the carbon footprint is at an all-time high, standing at 9.4 million tonnes of greenhouses gases every year due to the heat and power used in a school from the buildings plus you got to take in the staff and pupil travel , the general waste etc.  With that in mind, most schools are open to go through and make changes to help reduce their overall footprint by following certain practices that have been installed. 

Certain, methods that the schools can follow are making sure that the building has efficient insulation which will be a big help as it helps saves costs on heating and provides a more robust way of keeping the heat in, also having energy-saving lightbulbs will be a big help as lowers the high electricity bills. 

As well as schools, the local authorities are also getting involved in providing a level of support by developing safer roads to encourage more people to walk and cycle, with the addition of bike racks. 

Another thing that can be taken to consideration is the minimize of food waste as public schools produce around 1.9 % of waste within the UK so the best way to combat this is by introducing compost bins and green waste stations to reduce the amount of waste used. 

In this modern era, young people are more aware of the world around them, with the power of technology it’s allowed them to gain a better understating of the world. With an increase in awareness of global warming heating up (if you pardon the terrible pun ), it’s crucial that young people get a better understand the little changes that can be made that will make a huge difference in the long run. 

So with that in mind here are the few ways that young people can change one step at a time :

- When looking for clothes look for products that have been made with the environment in mind, always look for labels which have a green label. 

The most obvious one is buying things that have a fair-trade logo as it helps farmers gain a fair price on their product making sure that they don’t get left out.

Last week we had a speaker come in to speak to us about how we can create a digital product which can help teach young teens between the ages of 12 -16 years old about climate change and how little things such as recycling, using less plastic bottles etc. 

My part on this project is to look at the research + strategy aspect, this is a role that I have gladly taken on because it gives me a chance to gain a better understanding of what countries have a high pollution rate and how this be incorporated into a game format allowing the youth gain valuable information on how little things can greatly make massive difference on the environment.

Arte is a Manchester-based UX Designer.

She’s worked with Red bull, F1, The tour De France, Wimbledon, Playstation, Center Parks and Allianz Care.

8 Simple Rules 

-Freelancing: helped develop a companion app for Drive Club as a freelancer, also worked on the Sale Shark Rugby team. 

Freelancing is s a steep learning curve, got to go with the flow if the opportunity arises take it, learn to take the constructive feedback it's only going to make you better. 

Kitbag/ Fanatics-  Constructed the Wimbledon online shop so that included representing a majority of the team such as Chelsea, United etc, and most of the American sports franchise such as the NFL.NBA, NHL, MLB and the MLS.

Don't be afraid to fail, it's better to try and fail than fail to try.

Stand your ground, if you feel something is wrong to let them know.

PRWD - UX design, starting over and agency life

Worked within a group of 25, all contributing to create an app.

Graphic designers are already UX Designers  

Lesson 6: Collaboration is key 

Lesson 7: Agencies can be unpredictable 

Residently - Product design and building something from the ground up 

So with the logo, it's coming together nicely and now it's about getting a colour scheme which will give it life, but before that, I made some little changes to the logo itself which gives it a cleaner look. The changes that I've made is that the middle cross-section is now gone, the two shapes that represent the ‘J’ have been rounded for a more cleaner look.  I also had a look online to have a look at colour combinations so that I know that I have a scheme that works. 

These are the steps when creating the logo 

First thing was creating two circles, making one small one and a slightly larger one. 

Them CMD C + CMD F, to place the circle in front of the original one.

After that highlight the two circles and press the pathfinder tool 

The pressing the excluded tool should turn it into one half

then selecting the box tool to create a box which covers the halfway mark, highlight the circle and the rectangle then select the intersect option to break the shapes. 

When that’s done, need to copy and paste the rectangle, changing it into a square, then CMD+ALT+Shift which keeps the shape on the same line.

As part of the professional development, we have to develop a personal logo that will go with our portfolio. Having done a logo last year, it's shown me the steps that are taken to create and develop. The issue with last year is that I spent to much time on the design than need be. So for this year I'm gonna be going down a simple route and plan a little better, so the first thing I did was create a mood board of what aesthetic and feel I wanted to go for on Pinterest.

What I eneded up doing was look into sport player logos, past and present advertisement campaigns, the wipeout video game concept art and other various branding designs. 

So with that mind, I drew up a couple logos which incorporated my name, after a couple of sketches I had come up with a few that I liked but wasn't really happy with, so with little help from Kat she came up with a design which I thorough liked because it was clean and simple and could design it in different variations, so with that said thats what im going to be using for the final piece. 

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