Month: October 2017

In order to create an ultimate prototype, I need to design a simulated web/app and then learn coding/programming to make a real one based on the simulated web/app experience. Initially, I will have to decide the layout of Ushine app/web and then draw out on paper to illustrate clearly how users may experience it.

After that, I learn to use Adobe Xd which allows me to create an experience design for my project. The user flow that I drew will be used as a base for further development of app/website interface.

After sketching the whole process, I will have to design the interface for each step using Photoshop, AI or Adobe XD. Here is an example from my classmate in UX/UI Design and Prototyping class on Adobe Education Exchange website:

Eventually, the most challenging part is learning how to code with Javascript so as to create a trial version of prototype that users can try and give feedback. This is the book that my mentor recommended:

After delaying AR project, I decided to create a web-based platform where kids can learn creative courses through projects as well as interact with instructors and peers through the online community. The original idea is that kids will learn by doing with given projects and then upload products onto the web where kids share and comment on each other’s completed projects. Eventually, instructors will have a live-streaming event to review and give feedback on students’ products. Examples of projects:

 

(Retrieve from: https://jam.com)

After watching short project videos, kids have to do their own projects such as creating a craft, drawing a picture, cooking a dish, etc. Then they need to upload their products onto the web-based platform where they can see other people’s products.

 

(Retrieve from: https://diy.org)

Finally, instructors will host a live event which allows kids to ask questions, get feedback and interact with instructors.

 

(Retrieve from: https://www.panopto.com/panopto-for-education)

With this platform, project-based learning and flipped-classroom method are effectively applied into classroom. More significantly, online learning platform provides tools to personalise learning of children. (According to Howard Gardner (1983) who proposed the Multiple Intelligences, each individual would have a different way of learning depending on their types of intelligences).