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 53 - New Blog

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Today's design made me realize the importance of consistency. Today I was working on two side assignments that involved a blog post and a newsfeed. So, I decided to combine the two to create a single Blog application. And wow, it definitely took a lot of effort, and even with the "finished" product, I can say it still needs a ton of work.

For the homepage, I wanted the user to be able to see a list of blogs they have subscribed to, with the most recent blog post at the top. This page needs the most work. I still haven't captured the visual aspect of the post being clickable. To be honest, I don't think this newsfeed works for this design, it just doesn't really make sense. I tried so hard to make it work. Maybe I need to incorporate pictures or just something else to make look like the post is clickable.

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At first, I was going to place it in a 2xgrid (shown above). This grid allows the user to group blogs into their desired categories. However, as I was working on this, it wasn't aesthetically pleasing, so I decided to scrape it.

As for the blog page, I really liked the design of it until I placed the Newsfeed screen next to it. The consistency just wasn't there. The text was different, the alignment was all over the place, the icons were different - a lot needed to be changed in order to keep it consistent. I tried changing the colour, it worked, but it was still not good enough.

There's still a lot of work I need to put into this, but because of time constraints, I have decided to just keep it as is.

 
Andrea Ho