alicia01.png

Biography


Hi, everyone! My name is Wen Pan, this is my Chinese name, you guys can also call me Alicia. I've been in the state, sf, AAU for a year already, I enjoy my life here a lot. I got my bechelor degree in painting major, after I graduated I worked for a small local magzine in my hometown as a graphic designer. I used to paint a lot and illustrated a lot in my free time now I don't do it as much as before instead of that I put buch of time on the internet, but art still stay in my blood, I love to see all kinds of art and design exhibition, I like both triditional and comtempery art. also, I apriciate people's design work in all kinds of industry: from a beautiful architecture to a user-friendly taxi app. I love reading realism novel I love to meet different people I love watching documentery I love spending time in nature I love the sun the sea and I am very into animals. I listen old funk, rock, pop, electronic, techno and reggae. There is hippie in me, but I love steak and I don't smoke pot. I love spending hours on google and wikipidia to learn new stuff and playing games on my ipad, I have to say there is some geek or nerd in me, but I only buy paper book and I am a bad coder.


Word cloud









Video



Five websites


http://www.easel.ly/
http://365psd.com/
http://thenounproject.com/
http://www.icondeposit.com/
http://www.pixelfreebies.com/







20 questions

1. How many UI design demo is proper?
2. Is it necessary that I need make all UI design demos in very different style?
3. Is it important that my own design style form early and strongly keep that?
4. Are there any tips for making persentation very convincing?
5. How could I make my logo?
6. Do I need to make website logo flat looking to follow the trend?
7.Do I really need put animation on webpage?( using CSS and Javascript)
8.Personally like fancy looking design, if I apply it on none fancy project, is that weird?
9. don't understand dp and pixle.
10. Do I need to learn Flash?
11.Later on high relolution screen will be widely used, like retina, are there anything I need to care about when I doing design?
12.If the target market is not kid, using cute elements is bad design? not sure about this, Asian we use to seeing cute elements everywhere.
13.Where I look at during persentation?
14.Is it out of date that using gradiant color as background color?
15. Hover under line tacky?
16.Crurrent clients in real market already want responsible webpage?
17.When designing for android phones and tablets how to handle the difference on screen size?
18. Is it really lame that a web designer doesn't use twitter?
19. How to manage ourselves as a future web designer?
20. Nowadays flat is the main stream, how to arrange these solid color or image squares and rectangles?

10 ideas

easelly_visual (1).jpg



easelly_visual (2).jpg

Market research

market_research01.jpg

Competitors

competitors.jpg

Competitive matrix

matrix.jpg

Logos

Screen Shot 2013-10-14 at 2.48.53 PM.png

Moodboard



Screen Shot 2013-10-14 at 2.54.44 PM.png
Screen Shot 2013-10-14 at 2.56.28 PM.png
Screen Shot 2013-10-14 at 2.56.46 PM.png

Thesis abstract

thesis.jpg

Interest statement

interest_statement.jpg

Persona

posona01.jpg
persona02.jpg
persona03.jpg

site map

sitemap.jpg

Book Covers
Screen Shot 2013-11-11 at 2.36.01 PM.png
Screen Shot 2013-11-11 at 2.45.12 PM.png
Screen Shot 2013-11-11 at 2.53.53 PM.png
Screen Shot 2013-11-11 at 2.52.55 PM.png

Wireframe

Screen Shot 2013-11-18 at 9.43.50 AM.png
Screen Shot 2013-11-18 at 9.47.10 AM.png
Screen Shot 2013-11-18 at 9.48.49 AM.png

Storyboard

storyboard.jpg
storyboard2.jpg
storyboard3.jpg

Book



presentation