Brief 4 // Submission Boards

Yahoo // Submission Boards

This is the brief that I struggled with the most, it was slightly out of my comfort zone and I don't feel I connected with the content or design outcomes as much as originally thought I would. I am glad that I persevered with it instead of trying to find a competition brief that was more suited to my interest, because in the industry I will not always be given briefs that I have an interest with, so this was a good learning curve, applying my design strategy to an unknown subject. I feel my time management on this brief was poor in comparison to my other briefs, this is because I spent too long choosing a concept to follow. Overall I am happy with the concept I chose, I think it was strong, but in future I will make sure that I connect with a brief properly so to avoid this problem again. It did allow me to develop skills for phone app and web design, something that I said I wanted to develop from the start of this module, but I feel that if my time management had been better, I would design outcomes would have been stronger.

Yahoo // Final Blog Designs

I am happy with how the blog design has turned out, I think that the white and light purple colour scheme is much stronger than the deep purple spot colour scheme, I felt that that design was much too intense and looked more childish and less stylish. 

Yahoo // Design // Stage 3

I have changed the colour scheme to be much lighter and and much cooler than the previous scheme. I feel there was too much colour on the page and it didn't look very professional.

I have reduced the size of the icons in proportion to the toolbar, because I feel they were far too big and looked less professional, I looked on the apple website and there is a large amount of space around the button designs. 

I took this colour scheme off the one that was produced in the PDF brief guidelines, and I have chosen to use the lightest shade of each of the colours so the viewer isn't bombarded with too many bright colours on the page. The simpler the better, especially as the user will be uploading photos, videos and other type of media which may clash with the colour scheme.

Using the New Colour Scheme

These are going to be used for the icons on the toolbar only, if I changed the background of the webpage there would be too much colour on the page and I want to keep the design simple and clean.

I think that having all the user / contact information in one toolbar looks much better, I have also used a rectangle with corners rather than curved corners which looks much smarter. 

VIDEO BLOGGING

MESSAGES

Yahoo // Blog Design // Stage 2

Homepage

Blog Posting Page

Photo Posting

Taking the element of Interest and Facebook combined, users can post photos that interest them and also upload photos of what they are doing. 

VIDEO POSTING

Users can post videos they have found, and upload ones they have taken themselves such as turoials or video blogging. 

MUSIC POSTING

EMAIL / MESSAGES

Yahoo // Page Design // Stage 1

I am going to keep the design of the blog very basic in terms of colours, and keep to the purple theme for the homepage so it is easy to identify as Yahoo. It will also mean that the format will be easily transferrable across all electronic items; desktop, phone and table.

The concept of this brief is to make Yahoo! more personal, at the moment I feel the target audience can't connect and interact with the website much, not in comparison to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc. By being able to create their own site / page, they have a reason to use the website for news, answers and have their daily feeds.