Peer Review Day

Yesterday we had to show the rest of the group all the visuals created on Photoshop, all colour schemes and some of the writing that would appear on each of our pages. I printed off everything we have done so far so that others could see the development that we had undergone for the final design.


For the last few days, we've all been comparing ideas and what we were thinking of doing for our own pages over our Facebook group. I felt that we needed to talk about ideas and gain opinions on each others work so that we could make important changes before we showed the work today. Our ideas so far are to each have the same left hand navigational system and border but with different colours which represent the tube line - This will make each of our designs different and unique.


We even managed to generate new ideas the night before, from this I was able to create another sample of a page to show today. Here are the samples of our latest ideas we came up with, incorporating station tiles into the design using my first individual page idea of using a train ticket and displaying the information and pictures inside:

This design used white bricks in the background with the opacity changed
so it blends in.

This one uses the distinctive green tiles found in a station in London, there
is no opacity change which makes the design look garish.

Our peers said that the idea of the tiles in the background was better than the original plain white background and agreed that the green was too much in the background for the design.


When they were commenting on my page, they described the red theme of my page to clash with the train ticket in the main section. I never really noticed the clashing before and am going to choose a different colour for the final design. They also commented on the clever idea of using a sideways scroll bar, this made the page seem more journey-like.


The other idea was to make it seem like the viewer was watching a train journey, the images and text would scroll through the window using some HTML coding.
Here is the sample that I showed today:

My peers seemed to prefer the other idea, as it would be hard to get this looking professional which I definitely agreed with. I think I will be sticking with the other idea.


Today has really helped us develop our design, hearing feedback about what needs doing and how people see our website was really useful. All the feedback that they have given us will definitely be used, since these are the people who are going to be looking at our website, it cannot be poorly designed otherwise people will not stay and appreciate the rest.