DECO1800: Design Computing Studio 1

This week's blog task was to reflect on the course as a whole and the portfolio process for the final assessment piece this semester. Since I have already reflected about my journey through the course and what I achieved in regard to my learning goals in my  semester reflection  blog post, I will just be focusing on the portfolio process today. The portfolio process ended up being extremely rushed due to poor time management on my part. I seriously underestimated the amount of work I had to do and forced myself into a corner in completing this assignment. In my last blog post  talking about the work I had done toward the portfolio so far, I said that I had compiled all the necessary content for the assignment in an effort to alleviate the work load and take the pressure off. Re-reading the assignment criteria made me realise I had missed a lot of key points and I felt as if though many of the sections I had written were not suitable for the criteria. Unfortunately in th...

This week marks the start of SWOTVAC and a busy time in my university life, with many exams and deadlines rapidly approaching. Keeping this in mind I have tried my best to stay on top of the portfolio assessment and keep to the deadlines I laid out for myself in my  portfolio design process  blog post from week 11. Content wise I have achieved what I set out to do - I have written or compiled the necessary texts for each section of the site from my blog entries over the semester and have a folder with relevant images and screenshots to support this. I also decided to limit my personal section of the site to reflect just one hobby that displays some of my creativity and skills in the form of my video editing. I took the time to compile the videos on YouTube and investigated some CSS design layouts to display an array of media. Included below is a graphic prototype of a makeshift logo I plan on using to add more style to the website: Overall, I think that I am making s...