So I've been asked by Yvonne Hulha if I stopped blogging. The answer is: I don't know. I've been kinda busy lately and I kind of didn't have the feeling that anybody was really interested in what I had to say but then I also might just have been having a writer's block.
Taikonauten, The Dark Side of the Force
Recently work with CardCoaches (lets refer to them as CC from now on) has become much tougher and challenging than ever before. My status there has become quite serious. In fact, I get to do a lot of the design decisions myself nowadays. Let me tell you how the work-flow changed from a few months ago to now.
Before I would get a ready made scribble, do a little tweaking and send it to the designers DieTaikonauten (lets refer to them as Taikos from now on). Nothing more. As Part of the contract between the Taikos and CC The Taikos have to do all the design work for the homepage for set price. Now that is a good deal, considering that CC change their minds like 10 times a day. The problem with that is, that I never got to do any actual design work that would then be published, since the Taikos would always go ahead and change something to their liking. My workflow looked something like this:
Then my workflow shifted a bit and I got to do the final tweaking and the scribble. So this means:
Wireframes (CC) » Scribble (me) » Design (Taikos) » Final Touch-Ups (me) » Programming (Systaro)
And now I basically have my hand in everything. (notice how it all turned a shade of green =) - Red is evil btw!)
Wireframes (CC & me) » Scribble (me) » Design (Taikos & me) » Final Touch-Ups (me) » Programming & Final work on the PSD-files (Systaro & me)
Oh yeah, baby! =D And For everyone who is influenced by Joakim into thinking that I work TOO MUCH: When I was in workflow 1 I worked about 3 hours a week. Now I work like 30! Imagine what that does to our economy. It's totally worth it. Seriously... :)
University
apart from that I've been working hard in university. My course is called "Web Design" and, surprise, I have to design a website! ;)
The cool thing is, that I work in a group (new to me) for an actual client (not new to me, but still exciting)!
The client is a Fast Food restaurant called "Billy Boy's" (isn't that a condom brand, too?). Anyway.. since none of my group members know anything about design or programming I was elected group-leader. A role, which I really didn't want. Now all the work load is on me and I know myself - I'm not good at delegating as soon as the work is lying on my desk. But I have to involve my team-mates somehow so I figured I would take the laptop with me to school and we do the design together (with me handling the mouse plx)
Unfortunately I don't have any pictures yet but I have a little poll that I would like your help with!
We looked at the restaurant's web-based competition and we narrowed it down to two basic layouts. Please tell me which you like better. Personally, I like Layout 1 better.
Layout 1
Layout 2
Please ignore the content - The question is only: do we have a busy content on a plain background or do we have a busy background (image) with a plain content-area?
Birthday
On September 1st I turned 21 and Joakim did the nicest thing for me! He bought 900 post-it hearts and stuck them over all the walls in the apartment and - which is 50% cute, 50% mad - all over the floor in the hall-way up TO our apartment! Take a look at this gallery to see what I saw when I came home from school that day.
The weekend after that we went to Aros Fortet, which is a little bit like an adventure game but IRL. You go into small room where you have to solve a riddle or just climb over stuff in a given amount of time. If you fail, a light on the ceiling turns red and you have to leave the room (now you can either try again or go on). If you succeed, the light turns green and you won a certain amount of points. We played in two teams agains each other, 4-5 in each team. We in our team were sooo sure we were gonna win this but in the end we only had 300-odd points, whereas the other team had 560-ish points. Fail. But this was an amazing birthday! I totally want to show this place to all of you guys!
Photography
So I was actually thinking of creating a blog solely on photography but then I thought: hell.. if I can't even update this blog more than once in two months, how am I supposed to keep up with two? So I am just going to spam my newest images here instead! Enjoy :)
Awesome pictures hun!! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I like the first one better aswell.
Jo, mal lieber auf Deutsch ;)
ReplyDeleteBeim zweiten Link kommt eine Fehlermeldung. Die Bilder sind mal wieder toll. Habe mir Dein Album angesehen, die Spanienbilder sind ja auch allesamt klasse.
Ich freue mich das Du bei CC jetzt so angesehen und ernstgenommen wirst. Ist zwar stressig, aber lohnt sich doch auch, oder?
Die Idee mit den Herzen zum Geburtstag ist ja total süss, aber mir wäre es im Hausflur auch etwas peinlich gewesen. =D
Dieses Aros Fortet hört sich ja cool an. Sind die Räume denn dunkel oder beleuchtet? Wäre bestimmt was für Ray.
Danke für das ausführliche Update. :*
Hi vonny ! Danke fürs Kommentar.
ReplyDeleteDer zweite link ist jetzt geupdated, schau noch mal und sag was du besser findest.
Das Aros Fortet ding war auch echt genial. Und alles ist ziemlich dunkel. Nur gibt es auch räume, die beleuchtet sind zB war da ein raum wo ganz viele lichtschalter waren und jeder schalter hat eine note gespielt. da waren bestimmt 20 schalter oder so. und die aufgabe war "Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann" zu spielen. Total verrückt! ;)
Definitiv Layout 1. Das ist viel freundlicher, wirkt seriöser als Nr. 2. Das wirkt düster und unruhig.
ReplyDeleteI also think the first one is better, center the design and either extend the pink background, or put borders down the side with a complimentary design. With your increased work load do you still want me to visit? If so im going to need travel details, i need to know where to fly and the best time to do it, and however im reaching you once i land. Congrats on what must effectively be a raise ^_^ glad your having a great time at your job and at uni. Hope to hear from you soon! Just facebook me, ill remind you on there that ive posted here, incase you dont check one. Night!
ReplyDeletedas erste ist viel klarer!!! ich würde das zweite gar nicht weiter anschauen - in meinem müden Zustand viel zu viel Aufwand hinter das Ganze zu steigen ;-)
ReplyDeleteliebe Grüße, Katharina
For once I don't really have an opinion about a couple website designs (it's probably to late for you anyway ;) ). But my only interest with fastfood websites is how to see their menu and how to order!
ReplyDeleteHow often have you had the though "Wtf am I doing in Sweden with this guy!?" :) .
Hi Tonia,
ReplyDeletetrue, I didn't follow your blog when being in US. But we stayed in close contact anyway . . . I thought.
Wrong thought!
Because your blog also gives me the chance to see how you see yourself and how others see you.
So, I'm enjoying your "personal blog" again.
Cheers -:)