#ui challenge

UI Challenge 6- User Profile

UI Challenge 5 - App Icon

  This latest UI challenge involved creating a profile page. I used my own image and applied a mobile design on this one.

Design a user profile and be mindful of the most important data, names, imagery, placement, etc. Is it for a serious profile? A social profile?

With this app icon, I tried to create something related to the universally recognized play button for videos, andI used them to create a previous and next arrows concept for an eLearning app. The idea was relate to how we navigate through most web-based courses.

Design an app icon. What best represents the brand or product? Or is it incredibly unique? Does it look great at a distance and does it…

Starting today I am doing a daily UI challenge to continue to improve my design skills. Instead of worrying about it being perfect I am just going to post it anyway. Knowing it is not perfect, but at least I created something.

Maybe at the end of the challenge I will go back through and update to something that is even better.

I limited myself to one hour on this project to do some quick market research on other sign up designs. 

Research Findings: 

Forms are short and have limited fields

On a single page to reduce clicking

Social Media login is a big plus

Having inline suggestions is a plus

Self-Critique: 

Everything seems crowded and needs to be spaced out better.

Make it obvious that the inline names will disappear on click.

Not thrilled with the typography.

The Sign Up Social buttons shouldn't be light like the other sections.

As a way to spend some time and become more active on dribbble, I have recently started doing the UI challenge, with a twist. Rather than daily, I am allowing myself a more flexible schedule, trying to complete one every week. Also, I am not following a certain order but rather picking one from a list, whatever looks interesting at the time.

Before I begin telling more, I am aware it does not reflect a “real-world” design challenge. There is no certain requirement, there is no-one else than yourself to please, no need to do user research, no need to worry about UX in a way you would have to in a real brief. And this is exactly why it is fun. 

You see, real design challenges come with real problems, something to figure out and address, to solve. It is more than just pushing some pixels around, as much fun as it is, and it requires good amount of prototyping and testing and revising until you start the circle again. Not all the time you end up doing the final visual design either, so UI challenge gives an amazing opportunity on that regard, at least it did to me so far, to be able to improve myself in graphic design. Who knew layer blending and effects were so fun?

After deciding what to design, I start with a sketch, either on paper or on my iPad. I play around with layouts and colours and whatnot, until I do something that I want to pursue more on computer. Sometimes I have an idea right away, sometimes I think I like what I am doing until I start hating it and starting over. That is actually what happened with a calculator ui.

As I was scrolling for some LinkedInspiration, I found some within a post from Melissa Milloway via a daily UI challenge. I always like a good challenge, and I need a reason to get back into writing on this site. This challenge from Daily UI Design site involves 100 challenges in total delivered 5 days a week.

We will see if I stick with it all the way through. With the way I tinker with even…