Week 14-Outside of Class

Over the weekend I worked more on my Splash infusers micro-page. I'm starting to create a five column grid system. Trying to decided how I wanted my layout to look, took a lot of trial and error on the screen. I work better trying to move boxes around on the screen than re-drawing the concept over and over again, because when I draw I think way to big and can never accomplish what I want on screen. 

IIDC Event 

Responsibilities:

Web Team

- Created the montage of photos on the about us page.

-Choose all the photos for the montage image

-Helped placed code for new website

Speaker's Team

-Introduced and welcomed Melissa Zane on day of event

Extra Help

-Helped guided people to where they needed to be

-Brought extra waters for speakers

-Brought back up laptop

-Helped clean up by moving microphones, chairs and pick up trash 

About the Event:

For the second year in a row the design students put on the Interdisciplinary Interactive Design Conference. We mostly had students come and listen in on the event but surprisingly a lot of outside clients and designers came to here what the four chosen speakers had to say. Each of the speakers brought something new that everyone could reflect on even if they weren’t in the same field or design concentration. The first speaker was Melissa Zane and she is the Director of Creative Services at Godfrey. Her company is a business-to-business brand that unifies the methodology of design. She talked about the process of design branding and how to think about forward strategy. The second speaker was Kent Eisenhuth. He had a lot to talk about designing touch points and how software designers need to think in the same way designers do. He focused more about the design and how the UX can affect the users. The next speaker was Teresa Van Wagner and I honestly got a little lost when she was speaking because she didn’t explain the term building perception to the fullest because that was what her presentation was all about. The last speaker was very inspirational because Vinny was a data scientist. As designers we forget about how important date and finding data quickly is to us. He talked about how interactive design can help the value of user experience when searching information on a website. Overall I took a lot from the event and feel that having different professions gave a lot of incite about how many options you have in the design world and your not stuck in one area because they are all related to one another.