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 63 - Let's Travel

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I came up with an idea of creating an app that shows the traveller's flight details.

I wanted to create a lively app that shows excitement of travelling hence the colour orange. As for the layout of this app, I wouldn't say this is one of my favourites. I realized creating an app like this requires a lot of specific detail, such as boarding times and locations, terminal and gate numbers, as well as the duration of flights. I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a couple of important details. Also, for the text, I used the font: Lato. I'm not sure if I stretched it too much vertically for the some of the text, especially for the Summary screen.

Sadly, the ticket screen isn't much better than the summary screen. there's a lot of empty space between the flight time details and the airline ticket. I wasn't too sure of what else to put in there. Maybe the date perhaps? Also, I'm not so sure how I feel about the spacing for the 15:35. I feel I spaced it a bit too much. Other than that, every thing looks clean and easy to understand. I had quite a bit of fun creating the barcode. It was easy to create (only used rectangles) and the outcome was what I wanted it to be.

Definitely a challenge to create this one. It made me realize how important it is to do user research beforehand to know what is important to the user and what they want/need to know before, during and after their flight.

 
Andrea Ho