Week10-Week11 Design developing and realizing

I used black and yellow as the main colors because this topic is serious and the design needed to be serious and formal as well. In addiction, the yellow color is the alarming color of most cigarette packages. I also found a nice picture showing several graphic warnings and it would be great to use […]

Week9 Design sketch

I separated the data to three parts and I changed the title of the website from Photos could save smokers’s lives to Could photos save smokers’ lives because the effectiveness of graphic warnings remains unclear and the main purpose of my design is to raise a question thinking about the huge impact of such photos on […]

Week 7-8 Concept 3

After narrowing my topic to solutions for smoking, I searched for more information online and found some scary graphic cigarette packages, which I thought were powerful to reduce smoking. This caught my interest and I started to dig in. and studies have showed the effectiveness but there is actually no direct evidence in the real […]

Week4-Week6 Concept2

After abandoning my first concept, I narrowed down my topic to health and finally chose to focus on the harm of cigarettes because smoking is a main threat to people’s health.I found a lot of facts showing the harm of smoking and passive smoking as following: Health consequences Secondhand smoke I also found a graph showing […]

Week1-Week3 Concept1

This was the start of this new project.We were told to write a brief for ourselves and we needed to use physical objects to control digital interface, which seemed like a bit challenging because we had not done such things before. There were a few options to choose as following: I was quite interested in global well-being […]

Week 10-Realizing

This is the final step of this project—realizing my design by coding,which is a tough task for me because I have weak base of coding.Thanks to Adam and Olive,I finally made it. This is the longest code I have ever written Live show(resolution:1980*1080) Each page: Page 1:There is still a little bug of the controller […]

Week 9 – Development of the main page

This week I focused on the main page of how this post was shared. I realized that it is the influencers who have a large number of friends matter and so I used four different colors to different shares with  the  different number of friends(more than 3000 friends,2000 to 3000 friends,1000 to 2000 friends and […]

Design Thinking

As the modern world are becoming more and more complicated and people’s needs are changing rapidly,designers are supposed to be creative problem solvers,rather than  to only make something beautiful.Design thinking is a powerful tool to help designers tackle unknown situations and result in creative solutions. The core of designing thinking is focusing on end users,who are […]