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W10: Process Blog

This week I presented my final website design, which I created in Figma. It felt rewarding to see all the lessons from earlier lectures and practices come together in one project. I made sure to apply every tool and technique we had covered with the teacher, using components, prototypes to create a clean, functional, and visually appealing site. During the presentation, I walked through my design decisions, explained the user journey, and highlighted the structure behind each section. Preparing for the final presentation pushed me to refine every detail, from button states to font. The feedback I received was both encouraging and constructive, it reminded me how important consistency and usability are in web design. Overall, this week was about more than just finishing a project; it was about realizing how much I gave grown as a designer and how these tools are starting to feel natural in my workflow.

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W9: Process Blog

Hello,

This week was all about improving our final websites. On Monday, we had a feedback session with our teacher, which gave us a clearer direction on what needed to be fixed or improved. After that, the rest of the week was focused on applying that feedback and refining our work. I did not attend the feedback session, but discussed with my groupmates what kind of suggestions and improvement ideas the teacher gave.

Personally, I tried a few different approaches to make my website better, making sure everything felt more consistent and user-friendly. It was interesting to see how much small changes could impact the whole site. I worked with transitions from page to page, so it is comfortable to go back and choose the next page on home page.

Now we’re getting ready to upload our final projects. It’s exciting but also a little scary, since this is the final version of something we have been working on for weeks. Still I am proud of our progress.

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W8: Process Blog

Hello,

This week we actively worked on our final projects, and it was really fun to use everything we’ve learned throughout the course. Also, we explored a new topic: VR and AR in journalism.

Before I thought VR and AR were mostly for games or entertainment. But now I see that they can be powerful tools for storytelling too. I learned how immersive journalism can actually make people feel part of the story. It is not just watching anymore, it is full experiencing.

What I liked most is how these tools can create empathy. If done well, they help people understand situations emotionally, not just logically. I found that very inspiring.

It also made me think: do stories always need to be “big” to work in VR? Or can everyday life be immersive too? I think small things can be just as powerful if they’re told in the right way. The documentory "The Displaced" is eye onening to me. I could see myself doing it in the future, as how we discussed it is one of the accessible, yet cool things for journalists to do. I also remember hearing about Plave music group somewhere. It was interesting to break them down in the class.

Few questions I have after this: How accessible are these tools for young journalists like us? What are the risks of showing something too realistically could it be too much? And how can we start creating simple immersive stories on our own level?

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Hello!

This week I have learned a lot of fun and very interesting things, using AI, figma features to create animations and websites. I took a different look at how artificial intelligence can be used in programming and design. Previously, I perceived AI in startup creation as a complex technology, accessible only to experts. Now I realized that even without deep knowledge in coding, you can create working projects with the help of AI tools. I was especially inspired by the examples of startups from Kazakhstan, such as Higgsfield AI and CerebraAI, which have already achieved global recognition.

I was especially interested in how the QAMQOR startup created an MVP in 3 days without developers, using ChatGPT, Replit and Lovable.dev. And in the lesson, we ourselves created our first works using them. For the experiment, I wrote a request and, so to speak, a prompt in human language for Lovable, and for Replit I connected a prompt from ChatGPT. It was very interesting, I understood how AI can help in this matter in two stages.

Few questions I have: What skills does a person ultimately need to use AI tools correctly if coding is not required? How can we distinguish truly high-quality AI solutions from superficial or unsafe ones? What are the limitations of such fast Mvps built entirely on AI?

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W6: Process Blog

This wееk I learned how visual design and technology can directly affect the way people trust and interact with news. Fonts or colors could influence credibility a lot. Now I understand that if the visual identity is weak or messy, even the most credible information can look unreliable. I want to pay more attention to this in anything I work on, from choosing the right colors to keeping the layout clean and readable.

Another іmportant thing was how AI is changing journalism. It is already used to write short posts, detect breaking news early, and help with fact-checking. At first, it felt like AI was too powerful, maybe еvеn dangerous. But then I realized it depends on how people use it. AI can save time and give support, but it should not fully replace human critical thinking. Especially when it comes to ethical decisions or understanding emotions in a story.

I want to start trying AI tools in small ways, like summarizing texts or testing headlines. But I would like to make sure to always keep human control over the final content. For my website "Tumar News" I already do use AI, when I translate my english written articles into Russian, so most of my audience can understand it. However, I correct and check it myself. I also want to find the right font and colors for my outlet in the future, so that it becomes part of the brad and people start recognising it.

TED-Ed – How false news spreads - good explanation of misinformation online.

Pew Research Center - Social media & news statistics on how people get news.

ProPublica’s AI investigation - real case of how AI helped detect racial bias in ads.

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W5: Process Blog

During fifth week I explored prototype part of the dogma and got closer to make my website function. I viewed the presentations and I only have questions on practice. 1) How to apply graphics from the internet

I liked working on Figma a lot. Can’t wait to fully attend classes and sharpen my skills. I learn quickly and think critically, so I hope to make good results.

I missed classes, but I do my best to not miss anything. I also did have questions about our first assignment. If there a moment when we apply our work on Figma.

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W4: Process Blog

Hello,

This week, I learned how journalism and graphic design collaborate to create a strong storyline. Through the lecture, I got some great insights for my future website for Tumar News. Before, I just wanted a basic, well-done website, but now I want to include some interesting graphics and demonstrations.

I'm still busy with EuroNews, but I’ve watched all the lectures uploaded on Telegram. I completed the first part of the second assignment by myself, and I really enjoyed it. In my last process blog, I said that Figma seems both easy and hard to me at the same time. Now, it actually feels super interesting. I followed the directions from the presentations and tried to create the first page of the website.

I want to learn how to add graphics and images in Figma, if possible. I wanted to create a magnifier, but I didn’t like the ones I found on Google, so I just made one using a rectangle and an ellipse.

2. I’d like to understand the technical side of how Figma works.

Right now, I’m planning to keep working on our project with Anisa and continue learning and practicing in Figma.

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W3: Process Blog

Hi there!

This week has been very productive. Anisa and I worked on editing Assignment #1 and adjusted it to meet the given criteria.

On Friday we had our online lecture, and it was incredibly interesting. It was one of those moments when you realize that graphic design is more than just technical skills and aesthetics. We learned about fonts, and I discovered that they are not something granted that comes with a laptop or any devise. Every font is work of a designer. I particularly liked learning that a designer has to carefully consider every letter combination to ensure the font functions well and visually aligns.

I'm really excited about using Figma! On Friday we opened Figma just to explore its interface. I am not sure how to describe it, but to me it looked both easy and challenging at the same time. I think that’s a good thing and we'll get used to it, just like we have adapted to other platforms. However, since Figma has revolutionized the field it might not be like other platforms at all.

I have a few questions:

Will we learn the technical aspects of website creation?

Will we design our own logos and animated images for our website?

Does designer need to fully understand a website’s concept, or can they design without going too deep into it?

I feel like I already know the answer to the last question, but this is a new perspective for me. And I actually like it. Overall, I understand everything so far and have made progress in understanding the basics of graphic design.

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W2: Progress Blog

Hi there,

Well, my groupmate and I ended up completely changing the topic of our project, and I’m happy with it. Thanks to the teacher's feedback, we did some brainstorming and decided to focus on harassment as a social problem. Then, we refined it further and our final topic became "Workplace Harassment."

This week we worked on design thinking. This method was new to me, and it really helped us explore the topic in depth and evaluate the real possibility of creating the website. We realized that it is not only possible for us to develop but also useful for people. We are confident it will be beneficial. However, the design thinking method opened my eyes to moments I hadn't considered at the beginning. For example, how the website will function in the long term and how we can genuinely help people (connecting them with a psychologist or a lawyer?).

I also thought about the technical aspects of the project. Since I don’t have experience in creating real website designs and functionalities, I sometimes let my imagination run wild.

Overall, I believe our project is strong and possible to make. I’m looking forward to the upcoming classes to learn the necessary skills and theory to bring our idea to life. I think I will do great.

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W1: Process Blog

This week I could not participate in any of the Graphic design and visual effects classes due to getting terrible allergy attack and getting sick, unfortunately. I was beyond happy and excited for this class, so I hope for good progress in graphic design and creating.

I did team up with one of my group mate for website project and learned all the details. I really wanted to choose an important and essential topic, so that our website will be usable. So we chose the topic “Food and Human”. Website will be about eating habits in 21st century and its direct impact to our life. Then the interesting part: website will contain a guide and menu for how people with different health condition should eat, starting from cold, flu, anemia ect. I think this topic resonates to me also because I have to eat certain food, no sugar for some time, since I had allergy that continued as cold. These days I googled some menu and reasons why I can’t or can eat certain food. So I think it is useful for people. We will develop the idea further. I think it will be fun to work on as a beginning graphic designer and journalist too.

WHO has interesting articles on our topic. TEDed on youtube and other credible channels have really good videos with visually delivered information. We will use all the credible sources and will try to get exclusive interviews and guides from experts.

As a future project I see recreating my news outlet “Tumar News”. I really want to have a good functioning website. I have one now, which is not finished properly yet. Also I want to learn to do covers for reels and news posts. I want to learn everything in this course and be flexible with the gotten knowledge.