In Four Short Months

By DKG in InDesign, JMC 3433, Learning, Look what I learned, Photoshop, Platform for success, PR pubs, School is a good thing
Over the course of this semester, I learned much about working design software such as InDesign and Photoshop. Before this PR publications class design software was a scary nightmare to me. If I was ever given a position that required me to design via technology I was screwed. This was an intern conflict of interest […]

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News News News

By DKG in broadcasting students, content first design later, InDesign, JMC 3433, layouts, Newsletter, Norman, Okla., OU student radio, pull quotes, student radio, The Wire, trial and error, University of Oklahoma
Hello all, I have been working on another InDesign project, a newsletter for The Wire, my student radio station. I just so happen to be a DJ  on The Wire so this was something I am very informed and excited to share. The photographs, articles and design I did myself. To begin this newsletter I […]

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What is Perfection?

By DKG in Art, creativity, Design online, design software, determined, Direct Mailer, FIne arts, InDesign, JMC 3433, motivation, perfection, persistance, Photoshop, sunset, Theatre, University of Oklahoma
There will be a day in everyones career when they are given a task, with a deadline, that seems and might even be, mission impossible. There will be a day when what is imagined in your mind is produced by your hands. There will be a day when no one likes what you sleeplessly worked […]

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When Life Hands You Lemons…

By DKG in 2013 SuperBowl, Aaron Walter, Design for Emotion, Dunk in the dark, Flickr, good news and bad news, interface design, JMC 3433, Lemons into lemonade, Oreo, positive and negative, Power Outage, system glitch, trouble shooting, Tweet, website probs
Lets take a deep breath and face the inevitable, something is going to crash, power down, or glitch at some point in your interface’s lifetime. When dealing with technology, I have learned it can be the best and the worst of friends. The way Aaron Walters describes this unfortunate occurrence is similar to asking forgiveness. […]

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If At First You Don’t Succeed…

By DKG in Aaron Walter, Aphathy, conveniance, Design for Emotion, emotion reactions, Gut reactions, insights, interface design, JMC 3433, obstacles, subconscious, trial and error, trouble shoot ideas
I never stopped to think about how many decisions I don’t think about and just do.  Some things are so automatic and routine they require no cognitive thought to perform them, even something as complex as driving to work. Scary to think I would get into a car, merge onto the highway and not think […]

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Dusti at InDesign

By DKG in Aaron Walter, assignmentone, client support, creativity, Design for Emotion, digital design, felxibility, InDesign, JMC 3433, JMC3433, target audience, trial and error
The day was long overdue when I would take the design dreamed up in my head and transfer it through the computer screen. Typically in scenarios such as these I would sketch my design and have a friend who is very tech savvy, and an Advertising brilliance, transfer my ideas from paper to screen. I […]

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Twitter Knows What’s Up

By DKG in Aaron Walter, Anticipation, change is good, Design for Emotion, elements of surprise, integration, JMC 3433, Twitter
There was a saying I used to always live by, “I would rather expect nothing and be pleasantly surprised, than have high expectations and be let down.” A rather pessimistic outlook to a generally overly optimistic person, but it’s true. Too many times have I over estimated how grand something was going to be and […]

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My Website’s First Breath

By DKG in Aaron Walter, advertising, Baby-face Bias, design, Design for Emotion, Herbie, How to create something successful, JMC 3433, make a sell, Persona, Personality, Personification, target audience, Voice
I couldn’t agree more with Walters when he speaks to the importance of names and personality in an interface experience. When I read long, or technical names that need an abbreviation to be remembered, I often grow bored and begin to skim. All it takes is my eyes meeting a bad name and my attention […]

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