5 Tips on Portfolio Presentation For Your First Design Interview

You have carefully selected your most compelling design pieces and put them together in your portfolio. You are so proud of it and you’re ready to stride into the job market. But do you know how to sell yourself and your works in front of skeptical interviewers? Here are 5 tips to help you … read more

 

5 Great Tips to Help You Succeed in College

Dear high school graduates, whether going to a research university or a community college: We’ve interviewed past successful graduates and current college faculty staff to get their advice for you. Here we have put together these 5 great tips for you to succeed in your college journey… read more

 

This Saturday Come Visit Our iFish Booth at Clarkston Area Farmers Market

The fishing season has started, but have you geared up for it? Our fishing experts will be at the Clarkston Area Farmers Market this Saturday to give you tips on fishing techniques and equipment, right on time for this fishing season. Besides that, you’ll also get to see our latest lures… read more

What did you learn? Was it closed or open? How did the team work together?

I had an open card sorting lab exercise of the SCC counseling web page with my teammates Ellen, Sophak, and Marcus. I learned to organize information logically into categories for navigation. There were too many content cards. We focused mainly on how to categorize them logically, and we forgot to optimize the sorting from a user’s point of view. It was good teamwork, we figured everything out efficiently. Although for some content on the homepage I had different opinions from Sophak.  Overall, it was a good experience to test the waters of behind-the-scenes work for building a large website, like a college website.

Exercise 1: Size and Proximity

Using Move and Scale only, rearrange the provided white squares to create a hierarchy that follows the pink arrow pattern shown here.

You can also change the squares into rectangles of different proportions (click the green Transform icon and use the side handles to change proportions). Objects may overlap also, but they bust stay as white squares and rectangles.

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Exercise 2: Size and Color

Using Move and Scale only, rearrange the provided squares to create a hierarchy that follows the pink arrow pattern shown here, while factoring in the “weight” that each block’s color introduces to the mix.

Same as before, you can change the squares into rectangles of different proportions, objects may overlap, but they do not change the color of the shapes.

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Exercise 3: Geons

Using Move and Scale only, create new and recognizable illustrated shapes with the provided geons.

You can copy and repeat existing shapes (hold the option key as you select and move an object to create a duplicate) but do not color these or add new shapes. But you can also use the green Transform icon to distort the shapes if you like. You do not have to use all of the shapes.

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