Week 2B

We started class off today by going over our App ideas and brain stormed about the further details for our apps. Ben and I decided we liked our advanced reservation App idea. It pretty much is where you plan your restaurant experience. You pre-order your food for the night, pick your table, and the time that you go in. It is slightly better than the app competitors that we found online and so we feel like it's a good concept.

Other than that, we were assigned two things to fill out for our app idea development; Elevator pitch and "go tribal".

Week 2A

Today in class we went over the two articles that we were assigned last class. In fact we were even able to listen to one of the author's talk about their articles in class. We skyped Helen Tran and she answered our questions about UI and how emotions are becoming more important in apps and technology and it's better if you understand them.

Our professor then gave us a lecture about the different versions of mobile apps and websites. 

After that we were assigned teams for our future App project. I got paired up with Ben Farley and we started brainstorming about problems we have in our lives. From that we came up with communication problems/time management. In the end we were assigned Communication and started brainstorming further on things that could solve communication problems.

Week 1 Outside of Class

We were assigned to read two different articles; One was found on medium.com and was titled "Furture of UI and the Dream of the 90s"and the next was chapters from "Mobile First".

So For the Future of UI, the author pretty much just talked about our software and designs went from a futuristic sci-fi kind of way to a more intimate and human type of style as technology has evolved. This change has made it so we keep this technology with us all day everyday. You could even relate this to the Mobile First chapters. There they explained how most people get almost all their information and spend the bulk of their time on mobile devices versus PCs or laptops. It's show how convenience  trumps all other qualities in technology. That is just something that stuck out to me in the readings.

Week 1B

Since this week is Syllabus Week, that's pretty much all we covered today.

Professor Pannafino went over what was going to be required and expected from us for this course. Then he gave us a sneak peek at what was to be expected for next class. We had to set up this blog, purchase required books, and find out about events off campus and on campus that are required to do.

As for the lectures he gave us today, they pretty much covered the different occupations that branch off of having a graphic design major.  It was nice to know that you don't just have to be a web designer after college. It was also stressed that we would be doing a lot of "User-centered Designs" and be doing all projects "mobile first" projects.