I added another screen, displaying how a user would go from selecting a country, viewing a country, and then navigating to activities about that country.
This project was a challenge for me for a couple of reasons:
- As you can probably tell, illustration is not my strong point. Most of the projects I’ve done in the past have been team projects. I was always the one who worked on research, creating wireframes, user flows, copy, and presentation. This project has revealed a definite weakness in my design skills that I need to work on.
- Another challenge was the fact that I was designing an app for children. It wasn’t required and but I’d never done it before and I figured an app design with a focus on illustration.would be the perfect opportunity. While designing the app was challenging, it was really interesting to research and learn about the different ways children would interact with an app and how this can be predicted based on the way they interact with the world (play). It also made me think about what designing for other demographics I haven’t explored- the elderly, people with disabilities, teenagers, people using an app in a different language, etc.
While this seemed like a relatively simple project, it has opened my eyes. I look forward to what else I will discover about myself and the world of UX during my time here!