Monthly Archives: March 2014

Taylor’s 7th Blog Post

I delved into the SXSW session with Adobe and Soul Pancake called Content Creation With Soul. Adobe sessions were tagged with #AdobeSXSW, and many were tweeted by Adobe’s various handles, like @AdobePremiere and @AdobeAE.

There are a lot of takeaways from the session, but I’ll be brief in this post.

The panel talked about Kid President’s Pep Talk video. I remember when my mother shared the video with me and how inspired she felt after watching it. I, too, felt inspired to share the video because it just makes you feel so great. In the panel discussion, SoulPancake CEO  and Executive Producer  Shabnam Mogharabi talked specifically about their mission to create digital content that makes people feel great. They’ve generated donations to various causes and have truly made a difference. How exciting and inspiring —  a media production company that can exist solely to create content that makes people feel good and inspires them to contribute to a cause.

This video generated more than $60,000 toward charities that support those living with osteosarcoma.

Seeing how widely these feel-good videos are shared gives me something to think about in advertising.

Project3 & links to friendly sites

The links I have attached were some links I have been recently looking at and found very easy to find my way around on. They are both very well constructed sites. The first link to Noxxic doesn’t change much when it comes to being shrunk on any device, it just stays the same however it uses alignment, proximity, repetition and contrast very well. The second link to Starrcompanies did however adapt to its usage when used on different devices. I went to their site a few times on my PC and my phone and things would turn into barns or in column form when it wouldn’t fit all on my phone screen. Though it was still very easy to explore the site.

 

 

Blog Post 6

For Project 3, I will be fixing up my video production group Neko Neko Films’ page. I’ll be working with my buddies to see what they would like to do, as well as doing some online card sorting and focus group style testing.

One of the mobile-friendly sites that I found was http://theawesomer.com. It is a multimedia blog. On the computer it is a grid of video, photos, or other multimedia that you can click on. On my phone, each post shows is lined one after another vertically.

 

6. Responsive Design Exercise & Project 03 Topic

For my third project, I want to design a website for a Youtube series I’m working on called Texas Food Crawlers, because not only do we need a website, but I also need a good grade!

I’ve been wanting to fool around with the Zurb Foundation framework, which I’ve been reading up on. It looks perfect for a tidy, responsive website like the one I want. But, in the spirit of learning, I’m determined to code the website’s HTML and CSS by hand first and then convert it over to Foundation later on.

B & H Photo

blogpost6-bandhB&H Photo is one of my favorite websites, because I like to dream and drool about all the gadgets and gear they sell. I’ve never actually looked at it on my phone though. They have a dedicated mobile version with big buttons and text that differs quite a bit from their desktop version, which is is not responsive, but has a very nice fixed grid design jam-packed with cameras, computers and accessories.

Mashable

blogpost6-mashableMashable is a fun website with a clean, responsive design that looks great on mobile phones, tablets and computers. On a desktop, it has a two column grid with loads of stories and advertisements crammed into it, and with a left-handed sidebar showing a running feed of the newest stories. A navigation bar sticks to the top of the screen at all times, allowing you to dive deeper into the rabbit hole. On a mobile phone, everything collapses into a single, long column and the navigation bar becomes a button menu, with a drop-down search option. Very clean, very nicely done.