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 87 - Mister McLaren

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I decided to recreate Steve Fraschini's design on Dribbble. However, I changed some of the content on it, such as the type of car and the written text.

I asked my friend for a type of car he really liked and he said "McLaren P1." And that's what I decided to focus my design on. Luckily I was able to find that type of car in PNG format with a shadow. This simplified and eliminated many steps for me. As for the background, I created a gradient and added 3 levels, the first and third level being the same colour and making the middle level white. With this technique, I realized it made the image pop up and the background more interesting.

For the text, I tried to create a white gradient. However, this was hard to achieve because of the white car. For the example, because it was a green/teal car, the text was more clear. This created a challenge. So, in order to make the text stand out, I decided to copy the text three times. This definitely helped.

On design element I wasn't sure of adding was the navigation bar on the left side. I felt it drew the focus away from the big image. As for the colours of the top and bottom left corners, I decided to create a light grey instead of a teal to tone down the focus of the left bar. To be honest, I'm not too sure what would happen when the buttons on the side are clicked - definitely something I need to explore a bit more.

Overall, I'm happy with the result of the design, but not confident in the left bar of the UI. It was fun creating this one, but now I think I should focus on the "meaning" for the placement of the different elements on the page.

 
Andrea Ho