For my personal Self-Introduction page, at first, I preferred my original design because I made it closer to elegant minimalism and intended to use fewer colors. I made a few of versions with the colors I used in the color palette. At the end, I understood that the only way to effectively use that many colors is to at least slightly change the design itself. I couldn’t figure out the way to use dark green without drawing to much attention to it or making it the main color. Eventually, I used it with additional element – the leaves on the background.
In overall, I think the original and updated versions are approximately on the same level (I like Angela’s original a bit more). I couldn’t use all of the colors to not overload it considering background pattern. It could have become better if there was a color that could bring more contrast.
I absolutely loved Lexi's Personal Color Paltte and decided to take an additional classmate’s work for color update and reflection parts of the assignment. Lexi’s Self-Introduction page is good, but her palette is an absolute winner for me! The colors she used look amazing on that dark grey background. The layout for the palette itself is very modern and original. It is simple yet absolutelly professional.
Product Reflections
It was hard for me to use colors from the palette because my design was minimalistic and didn’t suppose to have many colors, but the color palette assignment prompted us to use minimum 6 colors which makes sense. Probably, I would have had to change my design completely to be able to use more colors effectively.
UPDATE: I did change my design slightly to introduce nearly all the colors from the palette. See Intro 4 in the file with updated color schemes.
Angela's Self-Introduction page already used colors similar to the ones she used in her color palette, so I just swapped some of them. The colors do not have big contrast ratio and that’s why I cheated with the headline color. I tried different color variations with Angela’s design. It wasn’t easy either because we need to keep in mind rules of contrast and the color palette was not high in contrast, though the colors combination on itself is great. I made Warm Plum (#8E577C) color a little bit darker (6D1C52). I didn’t want to overload this design with too many colors because the background itself has a pattern and it may look way too busy.
Lexi’s page recoloring process was the smoothest for me among the three I’ve done. Her design style and the colors she chose for her color palette were very much compatible. It made it very easy to find a way to use all of the colors from her palette. The overall conclusion of the three individual reflection is that color palette and design style choice are codependent. In design process we can start with either of them (more often the style goes first: minimalism, modern, elegant, etc.) It is very tricky when design has to be chaged only in colors.
Process Reflections
Angela’s Page
Personal Page
Lexi’s Page
Anastasia Iakubovskaia
Color Updates
Original Self Introduction
Personal Color Palette
Self-Introduction Color Update in Figma
Self-Introduction Color Update in Code Pen
My Self-Introduction Color Updates:
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Angela's Original Self-Introduction
Angela's Personal Color Palette
Angela's Self-Introduction Color Update
Classmate's Color Updates:
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Lexi’s Original Self-Introduction
Lexi’s Personal Color Palette
Lexi’s Self-Introduction Color Update
Classmate's Color Updates:
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