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 4 - Incomplete School Essentials

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Only the 4th day and I was already stuck for ideas. There were plenty of floating imaginations I wanted to do, but I just didn't know which one to do first.

I decided on a simple design and used pastel-like colours. I was aiming for only designing the pencil at first, however, when I was done, it didn't seem complete (maybe because it was a bit on the easier end). The planning of the placement of the two objects wasn't that satisfying. At first, I wanted to put them as an X, but because it'd hide a lot of the features of the object hiding in the back, I decided to put them side by side for a clean look.

I wouldn't say I'm unsatisfied with this design, but it didn't stick out enough for me. Hopefully I'll be able to tackle this in a better and creative way tomorrow.

 
Andrea Ho