Einstein – Page 3 – Natalie Kennett

Website page layout idea

Natalie Kennett / December 7, 2015 / Brief 2, Design, Einstein, Graphics, web page

This was the first finished front page idea using the new graphics that we made ourselves. The planets are strung up from the top, which is inspired from the little big planet research. The idea behind this website page is that the user selects a planet using their mouse which then takes them to a new page depending on what planet they choose. The title at the top is suppose to look as though it has been handwritten on a piece of paper which has then been ripped off and placed on the website by Einstein as the font is the closest one I could find to Einsteins writing.

First website layout

Natalie Kennett / December 4, 2015 / Brief 2, Design, Einstein, Graphics

This was the start of the first layout for the website, however I did this using the old graphics taken from the internet and so I didn’t carry on with this design because we chose to produce our own graphics.

Second Graphics

Natalie Kennett / December 4, 2015 / Brief 2, Design, Einstein, Graphics

The image below shows similar graphics to the first ones however this time I drew them and painted them and scanned them into Photoshop and then just enhanced the colours. I think these graphics work better because we want our media products to look as though children have drawn the graphics themselves, therefore I feel that these graphics show this. However I feel that Jupiter and Venus look too similar with their colours, so I feel like that needs to be changed so their distinctive.

Infographic research

Natalie Kennett / December 4, 2015 / Brief 2, Design, Einstein, research

Finally I researched into existing infographics and again mainly looked into space themed ones. I basically just looked at some from the internet to see what they’re all about. So far i’ve seen that they contain more information than imagery however there is a good balance between the two. The screenshots below show the examples I have looked at, so far my ideas aim towards making it have a fun layout and some form of direction so that the viewer knows where to look first and where to look next.

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.