UIUX
826 Valencia
2021
Designing a mobile application for 826 Valencia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students with their writing skills. The application embodies the visual elements part of 826 Valencia’s brand and family of information products.
Designed a set of new icons for the tool bar and various screens.
Goals
Understand how to work with an existing brand guide and apply the brand to a new product or service
Research and define brand’s placement in the competitive landscape from a visual perspective
Develop a style tile board defining fonts, color palettes, buttons, and button states, icons, states for affordances, other UI components
Design a set of icons for the application thinking about semiotic principles and behavioral affordances and signifiers
Apply the UI elements which extend the brand style to key screens in the application
Sketch and iterate working through different design concepts