Month: March 2017

In order to remain organised throughout the development stages of the app, I decided to buy a sketch book and draw an example of what I would want each page, or group of pages to look like. This will keep me on track whilst I’m creating them in Illustrator or placing them in Adobe XD and connecting the screens together to make them interactive to produce a working prototype.

Here are some examples from my sketchbook that I have created already. Even though they lack detail, I have a clear idea of the layout for the app so that once the assets are created, I can refer back to the sketchbook.

Here is another example of work take from Pinterest that I wanted to use as inspiration for the design of my own app. This focuses on flat design mixed with the same minimalistic style in the previous ‘Design Research’ blog post.  This work is exceptional in the flat design assets such as each logo and the use of colour. It creates a consistent theme throughout which remains strong yet the flow of the work and the layout is also incredibly strong.

Within the layout, the menu organisation is interesting because of the simplicity. From this research I am going to develop my own style with a menu that appears clean and visually pleasing.

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/Abydd-d_-ag1fPglQBA033u8S_n3JQ0HJJZyFXrJ1LxkRFZLPj-p7Es/

In order to understand what style of app I want to create, I began by searching on Pinterest to understand user interface and the potential styles I could develop.

one style that I thought was visually pleasing and complementary to my idea development was flat design and minimalism. An example of this would be the picture placed below. I think that minimalism is a pleasing aspect to design because it allows the user to breathe among the various assets placed. This is essential to the development of the app because I want to focus on not just the usability, but the interface.

Furthermore, this minimalism and ‘space to breathe’ because it creates a sophisticated house style, which is similar to what I wantto adopt to my own project.

Link: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/168955423502317043/