Portfolio – Graphic Design
Portfolio – Fine Art
Final Project
Definition statement
Personal skincare and makeup organizer. It provides a perfect beauty platform to get all the information about cosmetics. It helps people buying the right product and organizes the makeup they own.
Personas
Original Sketches
Design Pattern Studies
Visual Design Comps
Final Design
Assignment 4
Visual Design for mobile app
Hand sketches
Icon Visual Design
Visual Design
Midterm Project
Project 3
Design Patterns
- Navigation, Calendars, Lists, Logins, Notifications, Photos, Profiles, Search, Settings, Share, Camera Controller.
Examples:
Registration form & Log in form
Searches
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Galleries
Assignment 3
competitive analysis
Mira beauty: Mira is a makeup search engine that contains all beauty products comparison and reviews. discovering new products, analyzing product reviews.
Best features: comprehensive search filters, the community is a fully inclusive supporting space.
Bad features: too many reviews from all over the web, videos are only from youtube.
Lovelyloot: an app allows you to save beauty products, articles, videos and images all in one place. You can organize them into collections. It contains a database with thousands of products users can sift through to create wish lists for future purchase.
Best features: comprehensive database, wishlist, organize favorites into collects
Bad features: No real reviews, lack of community
mobile app concept
Personal skincare and makeup organizer. It provides a perfect beauty platform to get all the information about cosmetics. It helps people buying the right product and organizes the makeup they own.
Project 2
Interviews
My app concept: create an app that provides all kinds of information about cosmetics, including different brands, instructions, ingredients, and shared reviews. Most importantly check the expiration date of a product.
Interviewee: Claire, Jennifer, Kana
Demographic info
- Claire: age 23, SMC student, she likes doing makeup before she goes out with her friends, or go on a date.
- Jennifer: age 26, musician, doing makeup every day.
- Kana: age 20, international student. She carries useful makeup when she goes out.
Person’s goals, needs
- Claire wants to learn different beauty techniques from this app, so she doesn’t have to look all over the internet to find the one she likes. She hopes this app could be professionally targeting people who love makeup and provide a comprehensive platform for people to search and share.
- Jennifer likes the idea of the app because it is convenient to check the expiration date of the product and see the instructions. Sometimes when she bought cosmetics and doesn’t know how to use it, scan the product could be a really useful function.
- Kana’s goal is to save time finding the beauty tutorials on youtube while she’s doing the make-up. She hopes that the app could give her more recommendations based on her preferred styles. She also likes the reminder that could remind her to do the skincare on time.
their perspectives
- Claire: a great app could help girls to organize their beauty products. its safe to know if this product is still usable or it is good for my skin.
- Jennifer: It’s nice to have such a beauty platform that collects all brands and information, there hasn’t been an app like this, it’s a great idea.
- Kana: It will be helpful to have this app that reminds me to do my skincare routine because sometimes I’m forgetful. I like the function that saves all my cosmetic information on the phone.
20 Questions to Answer
- females
- among 20-25 years old
- currently, live in Los Angeles
- they don’t have children
- one of them was married
- They would use the app at home or while shopping
- They like Youtube because it has a lot of makeup tutorials, but its just a video app.
- They are mostly students, and
- They love makeup and care about their appearance.
- They are interested because it helps them to develop makeup skills and build more confidence.
- They are not trying to impress someone
- people who are good at makeup
- They often use Instagram
- none
- people who make makeup tutorials might drive my target to make decisions
- It is a free app so everyone can afford it
- They are accessible
- Maybe not enough people as other apps, because it targets parts of people
- I think my idea resonates with my interviewees on an emotional level because when they feel the same way as I am. The reason I wanted to create the app to provide convenience for them.
- No
Persona
Assignment 2
What is meant by the term Competitive Landscape?
The competitive landscape is a design analysis which identifies direct or indirect competitors and at the same time. For example, designers would take the best competing apps and analyzed their strengths and weaknesses.
What is User Experience Mapping?
User Experience Mapping is a powerful technique for understanding what motivates your customers – what their needs are, their hesitations, and concerns. Solving problems that people actually experience in their daily life.
What is meant by “Kill the Baby”?
“Kill the baby” means finding the essential problems you want to solve and removing the features that are unrelated, inessential or unrealistic for the first version.
What is skeuomorphism?
skeuomorphism used to describe interface objects that mimic their real-world counterparts in how they appear and/or how the user can interact with them.
Tell us what steps are included in the “Idea and Design” Process.
- having a creative idea to show to everyone.
- Competitive landscape
- User Experience Mapping (personas)
- problem-solving, remove unrelated features.
- sketch, wireframes
- skeuomorphism
- Experiments and testing.
Yuxing Chen 