Independent Project - Do Good Project

    Date: 20 - 27 February 2024 Prototyping : In the 'CAPSOUL To The Sea' feature, there's a page where user can move/tilt their phone around to find capsule. I manage to achieve this interaction through learning from a YouTube video from ProtoPie where they have an example of this interaction. They included a prototype file of this interaction, so I downloaded it and see how they made this interaction. They use a sensor trigger called 'Tilt', and it can chose which axis do I want it to be titled in. It was pretty confusing at first, so I have to also go back to the documentation that has been provided by ProtoPie website to understand on how to make it work better. Then, I also include 'Camera' inside the interaction so that it will opens up the phone's rear camera when they are in this page. This is to kind of simulate the AR kind of interaction in this prototype. / / / Gradient Design Assets : I start creating some gradient design assets for the app, ...

  Date: 6 - 13 February 2024 3D Design Assets : As I have stated in previous week, my 3D assets in Blender didn't worked out. So, I tried to use Spline again and see if I can achieve what I wanted. I started by finding a tutorial in YouTube on how to start on using Spline. In the tutorial that have made by Spline official YouTube account, it explains on how to create 3D glass material. After I did, it still didn't look as what I have planned and expected. It is slight better than what I had did in Blender, but again, not really what I want to achieve. The lighting are not what I wanted despite experimenting with the luminance and the angle of the lights, same goes to the material of the objects. At this point, I'm a bit lost on how to actually fix this problem that I have. So, I decided to just find more tutorial and videos that could potentially help me to fix the problem. Then, I stumbled onto a new 3D software called 'Womp 3D' and most of the examples has the sam...

  Date: 23 - 30 January 2024 Presentation Slide : For the presentation, I have prepared a presentation slides to show my classmates and my lectures about my project and the progress that I have so far.  Link to the Presentation Slides . / / / Wireframe Progress : I managed to finished all the lo-fidelity wireframe, which has the total of 48 pages. Most of the pages are pretty much depended on a lot of placeholder for images. This means that I might need to spend more time to create a lot of visuals for each pages. With this, I can finally move on to prototyping in ProtoPie while slowly build design assets for this project. / / / 3D Design Assets : I have tried to use Spline, however I was a little bit confused with the software. Because I was a bit rushing to make an attempt to 3D model my design assets. So, I decided to play safe and try to model in Blender (a software that I am also currently learning in different subject in this semester) by referring to my art direction th...

  Date: 9 - 16 January 2024 Lo-Fidelity Wireframing : In these two weeks, I start to focus on completing the pages as much as I can before Week 12 for the presentation. I personally felt like I was a bit struggling with planning the layout of each pages because I have to keep on changing and experimenting on which layout looks more easy on the eyes, and if it's suitable and consistent with other pages that is already designed. It is also because I might have a lot of pages for each features, so it takes more time to actually plan and experiment with what layout would suit them better. / / / Wireframe Prototyping : At the same time, I started to import some of the wireframe that I have finalized into ProtoPie via a plugin available in Figma. Then, I start by prototyping the onboarding pages first.  I wanted to make the onboarding pages to be able to swipe left and right, but also to make the pages scroll by itself when user presses the arrow button. So, I managed to find a...

Date: 26 December 2023 - 2 January 2024 After Submitting My Proposal : After getting my Do Good Project Proposal ready, I decided to consult with my lecturer to ask for some feedbacks on my Gannt Chart and Learning Plan as he had asked me to rethink what do I want to learn in this project. I explained to him and also introduce ProtoPie, an advanced prototyping tool that offers a lot of features to take prototype projects more further. I explained that by using ProtoPie, I would have to start from scratch to learn on how to use the software as it is more advance. This will take a lot of time, because ProtoPie has a lot of features and tools that Figma doesn't have. I had also mentioned to my lecturer that I would be also be using Figma to design the wireframes and pages. This is because Figma and ProtoPie works really well together, and ProtoPie are focusing more towards prototyping instead of designing. I was considering to do the wireframe prototype in Figma and only start using P...

Date: 19 December 2023 Learning Plan : This week I refined my learning plan based on the feedback that I received from last week. I decided to focus on improving my prototyping skills by using an advance prototype tool, which is ProtoPie. ProtoPie is a prototype tool that is widely used by experts in the UI/UX design industry. It offers a lot of features that other softwares don't have. My current prototype skills is slightly above average because of previous semester subjects, and I find myself to be interested in leveling up my skills in this area. I finally be able to finalize my Phase 1 and Phase 2 with the new changes that I have made. I researched on how to make my learning process easier and smoother by exploring resources that is available online. There are a lot of platforms that is useful for me to look forward into when I am learning the new software. I also prepared myself for this learning plan by reaching out to the ProtoPie support team to apply for the student plan....

Date: 5 - 12 December 2023 * Note: No class/consultation on Week 5, so I combine my progress both Week 5 & 6. Competitors Analysis : I went through App Store and Google Play to find any grief related app that has similar features with CAPSOUL, but to no available. Because of this, I try to widen my search by finding any grief related app and I managed to find three mobile apps. I will analyse the purpose of the app, and their key features. I will also try to list down the cons of each app for my reference later. For Grief Refuge and Empathy app, I could not physically try the app on my phone because of the app not available in the region. Hence, I could only analyse the apps by going through reviews and videos that I could find in YouTube. I will also go through their websites in order to understand the purpose of the app and their features. For GoodGrief, I had tested the app physically and made sure to take notes of the features of the app. Because of insufficient grief related a...