Session 8 - Looking At Some Mock Up Logos, Creating some Icons and Finalising The Copy For Our Mobile Website - 31/01/12

We started off the session with Everywhere, showing us some logo concepts that they had come up with based on our ideas from the last session.

Looking At Logo Concepts



Looking At Ideas For Icons
We discussed having icons to represent each section of the website. We split up into groups to cover each section of the website: homepage, health advice, travel and extras.
(video up shortly...)

Finalising The Copy
We discussed what copy we will use for each of the sections of our website. It was a really difficult decision to make as most of the ideas that we came up with weren't specific enough. Jess compiled a option sheet to give us some ideas on what we could write and give us somewhere to begin. After making a few adjustments we were all happy with what we decided on.

Homepage
- Advice from young Londoner's to help you to stay safe and get there. Ask Keely. (This was the more popular choice)
or
- Help getting home and first aid, plus smart tips and advice to save money.


Travel
- Need to get around London safely? Check out TFL info, safe minicab options and travel updates.


Health Advice
- What's the recovery position? Should I ring an ambulance? What to do, where to go, who to ask.


Extras
- Useful info and tips for survival in the city.

Overall we had a very productive session and we are all looking forward to when the guys from Everywhere show us our built website in two weeks time.

Session 6 - Looking At Designs and Layout Ideas For The Mobile Website - 17/01/12

We started off the session discussing how we will bring our website to life.

- Type
- Colours
- Surfaces, etc

We looked through some styles with Everywhere to see what we may want our website to look like or to feature.

- Like the tattoo style images
- Like pink and blue colours
- Drawn elements instead of photographs?
- Don't want it to be too in your face/bright
- Like neon style lettering
- Like purple Nike illustration styles
- Like 3d shapes - bright colours - grey as a background emphasises the bright colours - blue and pink
- Bit simpler
- Purple and blue (cyan)
- Want a character to make it consistent
- Graffiti is a good direction - can work for headers, can draw you in, but not in the main body text
- Can't be to complicated
- Like drips coming from letters
- Purple and yellow
- Black is a bit sinister
- Like subtle ways of referencing objects
- Like neon writing - bit more simplified

Everywhere will put together ideas boards of all the things that we like during this week and show them to us in next weeks session. We are all excited to see these.

We discussed the features that we should have on the website that we haven't already featured.
- Tube map
- Google maps
- An animated speech bubble with 999 in it on each page
- Hospital finder by GPS using postcode/place name

Everywhere put together some layout ideas for us to look through and decide between for each page of our website. We chose which layouts that we preferred and worked individually to design a page each for our website.

Session 4 - Visit To Digital Agency - Everywhere - 13/12/11

This session we all went on the mini bus to a digital agency called Everywhere. When we arrived we filled the creative's in on our idea for creating a mobile website.

Our initial idea:



What 'Everywhere' do and a bit about them:
The guys at Everywhere filled us in on what they do and how they came to be. They showed us some examples of other projects that they have worked on, which looked really great.

What Do We Want On Our Website?
We discussed what the main things we wanted on our mobile website was and referred back to our original spider diagram of ideas. We worked on a mind map on a white board and put the components of the website in order of importance.


1. Directions, route planner/buses/trains (TFL) and taxi numbers.
2. Advice, first aid and drugs info (Frank)
3. Area alerts and free online texts (02)
4. Personalisation?


Planning Our Website On Paper
We were all given a sheet where we had to plan in order our mobile website's features. It was really useful as we could see what we wanted clearer and we had support to do this.


A special thank you to Everywhere for sharing their knowledge and supporting us in creating our mobile website.