Andrea Ho
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100 Day Design Challenge

I officially began on February 26, 2017 and completed the design challenge on June 5, 2017. I began with little to no design knowledge, and my goal was to become familiar and quicker with design tools and see how much I've improved from Day 1 all the way to Day 100.

The most valuable lesson I’ve learned in the past 100 days was that designing wasn’t just simply placing nice colours and shapes onto a page. It’s really about solving the greater user experience problem, to provide a seamless, problem-free experience for all users, whether it be within an app or a website.

Day 52 - Counting Down

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I can definitely say that this was one of the hardest designs I have created and I'm still not fully satisfied with it.

I spent quite a bit of time deciding what elements were needed for this design. I got a suggestion from a friend on what to create: A Countdown. She noted that she wanted to know the number of days when she’ll come back home to Vancouver. Then, I asked her what else she was looking for. She only wanted a simple design that changes depending on the type of event, such as a vacation or wedding.

So, I began with page where the user will be able to see all their countdowns. I struggled on deciding what kind of elements were needed on this screen. I took out the details and only added the number of days and the event name. Also, I decided to separate Past Events and Future Events. Past events is pretty much counting (up) the days, this can be used for counting the number of days one has gone without eating meat or the number of days one took to paint a painting. I wasn't sure of what kind of colours to use for this design - this was hard because the pictures were all of different tones/hues/colours.

As for the counting down page, I wanted to keep it simple because that was what my user wanted. However, I added some elements that might be useful for my user, such as Edit and Share.

This was my first design that I took from someone and had them tell me why they would use it and what they want it to look like. It was an interesting design to cover, especially starting from scratch. I'm hoping that my thinking process and decision making will be faster next time I get a design suggestion from someone.

 
Andrea Ho