Interactive Design - Project 1

16.05.2024 - 28.05.2024

Graciella Limpah / 0364517 

Interactive Design / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylors University

Project 1 - Prototype Design

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LECTURES

Lectures are in exercises.

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INSTRUCTIONS

In this project, we are asked to design a CV using figma or adobe xd.

References

fig 1.1 References

Sketches

I want my CV to look minimalist, but also fun, so I stick with that theme.

fig 1.2 Sketches

Progress

Firstly, I try to do the layout of my CV before doing anything else. I make the title of each parts using font with just border of it just to make it looks fun and not boring. I also add stars icon for the education and skills part to increase the whole look of the CV.

fig 1.3 Layout

Breakdown

fig 1.4 Introduction

For the top part, which is introduction. I introduce myself in short paragraph, adding square to the graphic designer word so it looks different from the other words. I also make my name bold and bigger so reader will first look through my name before anything else.

fig 1.5 Left side of bottom page

In this left side, I make it with square shape just so it looks different from the right side. The square have a connecting line from the separator line in the middle. The size of the squares are also different so it can creates dimension.

fig 1.6 Right side of bottom page

At this side, I put in education, skills, as well as hobbies. All of them have star icons just to make it more continuous. 

Then, I add in some pictures and icons to the layout. I used png icons that I found in google and just paste it at my CV.

fig 1.7 Adding icons and pictures

For the last touch, I add colors in the background and my own picture.

fig 1.8 Adding colors

After asking feedback from the lecturer, he asked me to not use center align for the introduction part, so I change it into left align.

Final Prototype Design

fig 2.1 Final Prototype Design (png)

fig 2.2 Final Prototype Design (pdf)

fig 1.10 (embed from figma)

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FEEDBACK

Mr.Shamsul said that the prototype was clean, but need to change the alignment in the introduction part.

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REFLECTION

Experience

For me personally, this exercise are fun to make, as this is the first time I'm using Figma, I still figuring out the tools figma provides. Thinking about the layout of a CV makes me confused a little bit but overall I enjoy doing this task.

Observation

As I need references for my CV, so I looked out to so many types of different CV out there. I observe that too many elements or text in a CV makes the reader don't want to read, so simplicity is really needed here.

Findings

I find that if we make our own CV, not only the text are important, but the layout of the CV are also important, we need to make it more interesting so people that read it enjoy what we have wrote in our CV.