December 2015 – Page 4 – Natalie Kennett

App Research

Natalie Kennett / December 3, 2015 / Brief 2, Design, Einstein, research

Next we looked into App designs and how websites adapt their product to suit different technologies. From this I also took ideas for layouts. The screenshots below show the examples I looked at. The one on the far left shows a quiz app that allows you to select a tile on the app and so we will use this in our app idea. It will work as the user will select a planet layed out in a rows. The middle screenshot shows an app on an Ipad in which the user can move around to explore space. Finally the screenshot on the right shows the app version of BBC bitesize. It has been adapted so that you have all the option along the bottom to take you back to the homepage.een.

research

Natalie Kennett / December 3, 2015 / Brief 2, Design, Einstein, research

Within my group we decided that we wanted to aim our project towards young children therefore we have decided to make it an educational product. To start with I researched into websites such as BBC bitesize and looked at various screenshots of other existing websites. From looking at these, I can see that they’re mostly imagery rather than text so I think that as a group we will keep text to a minimum and make it more visual and bright. The websites are also simple rather than complex and so we will ensure that ours are too simple. The screenshots below show the examples I have looked at. I specifically looked at space themed websites to gain some inspiration for graphics.

Little Big Planet Research

Natalie Kennett / December 1, 2015 / Brief 2, Design, Einstein, research

I then looked into a childrens game called Little Big Planet which is a game based on handmade objects and so i took inspiration from the game for the composition of our graphics within the media platforms.

First Initial graphics

Natalie Kennett / December 1, 2015 / Brief 2, Design, Einstein

These were the first graphics that me and my group produced, We took these form the internet and put them on paper to create the illusion that they have been drawn. We did this as a rough guide to play around with compositions before drawing the graphics ourselves. The relevance of the planets come in as they’re the massive objects in space that cause gravitational pull. The idea is to position these on a space background and each planet containing information about the theory. However we want to make it look more hand made and so I looked into existing children ‘s educational websites.

Brief 2 Research

Natalie Kennett / December 1, 2015 / Brief 2, Design, Einstein

http://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html

I started my project by researching Einsteins theory of relativity so I knew what it was all about. The link above basically states that Massive objects in space causes a distortion in time therefore we feel that as gravity. Einstein proved that the speed of light within a vacuum doesn’t speed up because of the gravitational pull. My first initial ideas based on this would be a space themed poster/website and app featuring Einstein aimed towards children.