Andrea Ho
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100 Day Design Challenge

I officially began on February 26, 2017 and completed the design challenge on June 5, 2017. I began with little to no design knowledge, and my goal was to become familiar and quicker with design tools and see how much I've improved from Day 1 all the way to Day 100.

The most valuable lesson I’ve learned in the past 100 days was that designing wasn’t just simply placing nice colours and shapes onto a page. It’s really about solving the greater user experience problem, to provide a seamless, problem-free experience for all users, whether it be within an app or a website.

Day 37 - Spring Temperature

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Today I got my inspiration from the current Spring weather.

I've always liked the UI on weather networks, the different weather icons, the colours, the way the numbers were displayed, the graphs, everything. So today, I decided to create a Weather app that includes some of those items. I really wanted to create a graph, but then I realized it doesn't actually show much data, and it wasn't that important. Instead, I decided to create a weekly weather report. For users who want to see the daily fluctuations, they will have the option through the "Hourly" button. As much as I wanted to created the weather icons, they would take too much time, so I decided to grab them off of Google.

The main struggle for today was the colours. After placing the blue sky and the white clouds background, I had to change the font and images to white to make them more visible. However, I feel that there was still a lack of differentiation between the background and the lettering, so I decided to dim down the opacity. Also, for the temperature ranges, I chose the colour Orange, because I thought it paired best with blue and white.

 
Andrea Ho