Category: AAD 086 FA23

Flexbox isn’t nearly as tricky as it appears to be!

With my design based brain, learning flexbox seemed so foreign and impossible. From the 85 class all the way to 86, every time there was a lecture or information on flexbox I shut down. Much of the steps you need to take to achieve flexbox seemed pointless which led me to accidentally skip many step and led to my flexbox never working the way I wanted it to. Previously, I always resorted to using the absolute and relative positioning to position my elements. This always caused problems when there were layout changes or browser size changes.

But after months and months of practice in flexbox, I feel like I finally understand it and realize how simple it truly is and that what I once thought was very difficult, is actually simpler than my own methods! So remember to stick with it! What you think may be ridiculous now, may be a really helpful tool later down the road regardless of the learning curves!

Over the course of two weeks, we had many projects with Responsive Design. The main emphasis was on building a website for a mobile device, since it is more effective to start the design with it, and then you can add the layers for a tablet and computer.

I finished my midterm design, and after three rounds of designing it, am I happy with it?

I found it odd when Professor Bill told me he didn’t know what was going on with my 2nd draft.

WARNING: DO NOT WORK AND SLEEP

This week I learned the importance of rest in relation to quality of work. With a long work week, I noticed my quality of work I turned in was getting worse and worse. This was because I forced myself to get it all done beofre I allowed myself to rest as a “reward”. But when I finally let myself rest after a days work before diving into hours of homework or midterms, my brain was more awake and my quality of work increased! I really think this impacted the outcome of my midterm site design this week. My working draft I had wasn’t great and definitely not challenging my design skills. Not until later in the week when I was able to catch up on rest did fresh ideas and enthuseasum start to flow!

Be kind to yourself and relax! You will get it done in due time!

These last couple weeks, we worked on our Midterm project. For this project, we had to create a microsite design, using either Adobe XD or Figma. I initially started on Adobe XD, but then switched to Figma to finish my project.

I can’t believe the semester is already halfway over. It feels like the time flew by, but also, I think the course has been paced really well. I haven’t been expected to understand things without having been given adequate time to learn.

Time flies when you are having fun!

This week the information about Responsive Design really made some concepts and functions of building a website come together. I have always thought of designing from big to small, but never knew that developing this from small to large would be more efficient!

Personally, this week was huge! I accepted a job, not in Web Design, but see opportunities to possibly use this skill to supplement my work. I am excited….and scared…for this new adventure, but all great things have a little of both. I think this is the perfect formula for an exhilarating future!

Over the last couple of weeks, we practiced using Flexbox and Floats to make the Concentric website. We also had an introduction to responsive design and will submit our midterm design.

We’ve covered a lot of new topics over the past two weeks. First, we built a Concentric website using the float model. Then we converted it to flexbox.

We have had a lot of assignments over the past two weeks. We have updated our knowledge about floats and flexbox.

Layouts! I remember these being the most intimidating part of Intro to Web Design for me. I felt like I didn’t actually know what I was doing and was just jury-rigging my code to get it to look the way I wanted. This time around, I’m feeling a lot better.

These past two weeks have been a lot of fun and have refreshed a lot from my previous classes.