Capstone Final Documentation

For my capstone I initially set out trying to explore the question of how can we use typography to express emotion and humanity in an age of digital communication. I wanted to embed feeling into a font to try to avoid situations where you don't know the tone of a conversation or a message. Sometimes …

Interactive Experience

For our Interactive Experience, Emma, Lillie, and I, chose to analyze the side staircase of the Environmental Design building and how we could create an experience within the space. Context Upon our initial exploration of the space we found that the stairwell is pretty bland and plain. It comprises mostly of concrete and painted brick. …

Project 4: Portfolio Site

Through this project I had the opportunity to design my own portfolio site and the different pages that would go along with it, including about, contact, and project pages. This was one of the more difficult assignments because I didn't know how to embody myself and the work that I like to do in a …

Week 13: Finalize UI/UX Prototype

This week I worked a lot in JustInMind, the prototyping tool that made it possible to simulate a chatting app. JustInMind allows you to add conditions based on user interaction to replicate the user experience as closely as possible. The prototype I was able to create demonstrates how the user can select different emotions and …

Week 12: Final iteration of font & Work on prototype

This week I finalized my font, implementing color in each of my 111 glyphs. I finished creating a variety of symbols and made adjustments to overall spacing to a majority of the glyphs. After completing the basic set, I fully implemented the color versions of my font. Also, this week I continued to work on …

Week 11: Prototyping and SVG Color Font

This week I continued to work on developing more glyphs for my font including all the numbers and some symbols. I also finished adding color to complete the uppercase and lowercase alphabet. After researching SVG color fonts last week, I decided to try to turn my font into a SVG font too. It was pretty …

Week 9: More Color Implementation & User Experience Prototype

This week was challenging because I tried to start to create an interactive prototype so that I could start testing different user experiences. Initially I wanted to use the prototyping tool JustInMind because they had a tutorial on how to prototype a chatting app. I started following the tutorial but I found it was limiting …

Mobile Experience

Project Description The mobile experience that I chose to build is an educational app that helps older users become more familiar and comfortable with using their mobile phones. Older users didn't have the opportunity to grow up with technology and as a result many elderly users are afraid to use their phones and don't know …

Project 3: Call to Action

Overall this project was a continuation of our previous working, building upon our music app, in order to create a 1-page promotional landing page for our app. Like the previous project this assignment encompassed a lot of smaller stepping stones that allowed me to continue to refine and improve my designs. By far the most …

Week 8: Start Implementing Color

This week I finalized how I wanted to add color to my base font. At the beginning of the week I made final adjustments to my base alphabet and then began to research how I could use Glyphs to make a color font. I thought the easiest way to implement color would be to export …