Tutorial

Today I have a tutorial again and my supervisor needs me to do more research about mobile applications and show the storyboard at my next tutorial.

Design app

After the tutorial last week, I have explored some mobile applications such as Instagram, Facebook, Tripadvisor and so on. I use the information and knowledge that I got from all of the mobile applications to inspire and develop my project. I found that when people go travelling, they want to share their experiences with others as you can see from social media Instagram and Facebook. People love to share their pictures.

Here is my design for a mobile application.

Colour for content

Here is the content of Bangkok attractions.

Colour palettes

Here are the colours that I will use in my project. I use colours because it can effect my audience and the green is the colour of Bangkok.

The meaning of colour

Colours
Another important thing of design is colours. We need to be conscious of what meaning we are conveying when we choose to use one colour over another. It’s important to understand who your target audience is and how your audience responds to colour. (allan-zhang)

My target audience is young people between 18-28 years old so the mood & tone of my project is colourful, vivid and free.

INSTAGRAM

 

 

What Is Instagram?

If you're involved on social networks like Facebook or Twitter, you may have come across a photo or two that looks like it had a very elegant vintage filter applied to it. In fact, you may have come across more than just one or two considering the fact that Instagram is one of the most popular mobile photo apps to download.
If you own an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, Instagram could be a great tool to help uncover your inner photography skills.

Instagram as a Social Network
On Instagram, you can follow other users' photo streams as they post them and you can be followed back by those users (or other users) as well. Using the "Profile" icon located on the lower menu of the Instagram screen, you can search for friends by name or find friends that are already connected to you on other social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
When you decide to follow a user, that user's Instagram photos will appear in your feed, which can be found under the "Feed" icon on the lower menu. You can press "Like" on any photo to let someone know that you admire their photography, or you can leave a comment.
When you take photos using the Instagram app, they will always appear in the feeds of the users who are following you. You can browse through the "Explore" tab to find new users to follow and creative photos to look at.

Taking Photos and Applying Photo Filters
After downloading the app from the App Store and creating an account, you can open the app up and snap a picture through your camera, using either the back or front camera. There is a menu at the bottom of the screen, and you can snap a photo by pressing the camera icon in the middle of the menu, labeled "Share."

http://webtrends.about.com/od/prof4/a/What-Is-Instagram-Wiki.htm

 

Tutorial

Today I had a tutorial again and we discussed my project. I showed my postcards and illustrate of my project. In the end of tutorial, we think the postcard size maybe bigger than this and the colour could be brighter. One more thing, I should think about the mobile application as well. Here are some of my work that shown today. :)