Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on our Midterm project, which is a design project using software like Figma. I chose to do Figma because I want to become more comfortable with the program, and there are more tutorials available on the web for this software than others. I also figured that having Figma experience + projects will look good on my resume for future work. I’d like to do more work in Figma and really get a handle on the animations so that I can create moving prototypes.
I can’t express enough how much I liked working on this project. I just love working with design software and have so much fun learning new ones. I’ve only worked with Figma once, and it was just while watching a tutorial last semester so I didn’t do very much with it. Being able to get into the grit of the design is partly why I enjoy working with design software. I love tweaking the minute details of a design and getting the alignment just right, choosing the perfect font type and colors to give the right vibe, and adding shadows and borders on an image only to delete it because it’s not quite right. I love that process, and it’s something I really enjoy doing.
I am a tad bit concerned for the final project, however. I know that we can use this design for our final or come up with something entirely new. But, after putting in so much time into these designs, I don’t see why I’d choose to do something else—except that I may be making the coding of this site a bigger challenge than I’m ready for. I can see 100 different places where Flexbox and Grid could be used, and I would bet $100 that we have to create our final project using Flexbox or Grid, and maybe Float if we only use it once. I’m still feeling a little shaky about Flexbox and Grid and the final will really be the ultimate test, especially give how long my site project is. I may need to cut some of the site out and shorten it, so I don’t run out of time creating it. I’m looking forward to the challenge!
Lastly, we have been working on responsive design. Given that I’ve only seen it in the lectures and done the assignments along with the tutorial, I feel like I understand it fairly well. It seems easy enough, anyway. Placing the code that you want changed inside of the media query makes sense. And having limits on how small or large the browser can be seems sensible. I can’t see any issues learning about it so far, and I’m hoping this is one of those things that just clicked with me 🙂 We’ll find out!