Week 3 Reflection

Discussion of layout and design plans of website

In class we looked at everyone's wireframes, sitemaps and moodboards to be able to identify the different directions for the lux site. It was helpful to see what everyone had planned for their site and it also helped us to identify some links or buttons we had missing in our own wireframe design.

We then joined another team and we discussed the personas of the target audiences we were targeting (which was narrowed down in the last lesson). I think it did help for us to put ourselves in their point of view and to check the content and pages would be useful to them and be able to guide them across the site. Moving forward, we did reevalute/change some places of where things would go on the homepage and button titles on the navigation bar to make the site easier to understand. I think this will keep changing as we incorporate a visual style for our website.

Also, from the exercise we did find that there has to be a balance in terms of visual content and informative content because of the different personas that will be using our site. We don't want any of the target audiences to have a bad experience with the site and never come back to the website.

We did narrow down colours to a point but we may be still working on the colour combinations that will work on the website. As we need to have colours that can be read by our target audiences. Sometimes white on black tends to be harder to read than black on white for some.

We did want to have our social media section figured out because it is a way of self publicity. We want people to remember the event so this will be an important aspect when moving forward with our site. Also, connecting to the word memorable ( an event to remember).

What to work towards:

-improving site map and wireframes (homepage and another page)

-visually coconceptualizing our wireframes (figuring out what the visuals will look like on the site and where. It could change the layout of wireframe.

-making wireframes for the rest of the website (try to do as much as we can to figure out how well the site will guide the user).

-refine mood-board to one page to set the mood of our site ( We need to pick an idea and go with it visually on our site because at the moment we do have a few to choose from)

-Colour palette testing, clarity of everything for users. Colours could affect readability. We were thinking of mainly navy with some other colours.

Rebecca, Richie, Sarah