Hey again!
Today’s title is brought to you by another show I recently started watching… I get a lot of metaphorical speech influence from films and shows, which I will get into more detail in the personal section. 😉
There is a feeling where everything in front of our goal feels like a wall in our way, and even then sometimes the only way is to go directly through it. We must break the wall to continue on. So many walls that we begin to see everything in our path as a wall. At some point, we have to understand that not everything in this world is meant to challenge or push us beyond our limit but instead follow the flow and humble our position at this moment.
I ask what is a wall? Because I don’t want to lose meaning when striving to achieve my goals.
Professional
This week in review.
Bill Murray or as I like to call him… “Uncle Bill” set the cohort up with a challenge to create a website on his instructions. This gave us an opportunity to create something off instructions alone. The interesting part about this style of learning is how people interpret what is being asked of us and how to achieve those goals. Each of us may have been inspired by different elements that gave us a certain style to our design.
Once the page was created we had to then change it based on the new rules given to us by Bill. This brought something to light… Damn my code sucks and I have to go back to it and fix it up. Jokes aside, it made me consider the design and development with the idea that when people access my files and information, it would be best to make it legible.
Boxes. Lists. Columns. Boxes. Columns.
Yeah, every website seems that it could be broken up into one of these. Seems simple enough but positioning things properly seems to be a challenge. Making things legible for others who access the code is important but also making it for users to read and enjoy.
I would originally give a box something like:
max-width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
This way the box gets centered and has a size to it. This makes it a column if the page is long enough. The thing is I would never consider the background of it and didn’t know how to extend the background of the column beyond its set width. Learning and seeing this in action felt like an “aw ha” moment. A box within a box goes a long way and helps create.
CodePen links:
Users are tricky people, or maybe you just have to trick them to enjoy reading your creations. Welcome TYPOGRAPHY.
We took some time to study up on typography and get an understanding of the text. Each style has a purpose and value for the user to be entertained. Not only that but as the designer, it is a way for me to speak to the users and show them my vision. I would like to share what I wrote about typography with my cohort:
I could feel that I’m slowly being pushed out of my comfort zone. I’m trying to embrace the opportunity and that requires a commitment to feeling vulnerable. This week I connected with Derek the mentor at Perpetual Education to follow up on just about anything I want in the program.
It is something I want to take more advantage of.
Derek gave me a lot of advice and ideas on ways to shape my designs. At the end of the day no matter how perfect I want to be, there’s a lot I’m lacking and learning every day.
Personal
Super Pumped
Weird name for a show. What got me to click and watch it was that I saw Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the promotional material, I like his acting so maybe I’ll like this show.
The gist of this show is simple. UBER on the come-up. Joseph portrays real-life entrepreneur Travis Kalanick the at one point CEO of UBER.
There’s only so much I could actually call true but it does show another side of a company that wanted to do something greater. A ride-share company that thought of itself as a tech company first and wanted to sell an experience above all. Obviously, with a tech giant making moves, there suddenly appear walls that want to slow or halt that movement.
The journey is everlasting so make it worth it, right?
Catch ya’ll next week!
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