Week 2, revisited: Polish
posted Wednesday, June 15 2016 @ 5:33 pm EST

Technically I'm supposed to be done with the Kūsō Neko Pāku site, but after getting some feedback from a friend, I wanted to go back and polish up the color scheme a little bit. I'm a lot happier with it now: • Harsh whites softened. • Use of accent colors ...
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Week 2, Day 6: Front End
posted Saturday, June 11 2016 @ 10:19 pm EST

Today is implementation day, so step one is to get the site running online somewhere. I want it to be its own little website, and not a sub-directory of my portfolio. Additionally, I'd rather not start adding a bunch of new apps to the Heroku account, because that might cause ...
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Week 2, Day 5: UI Development (cont.)
posted Friday, June 10 2016 @ 5:52 pm EST

More UI work today, it's looking like I'll be ready to finish implementation tomorrow as previously expected.
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Week 2, Day 4: UI Development
posted Thursday, June 9 2016 @ 11:48 pm EST

Being more of an engineer than an artist, I'm doing coded mockups in HTML / CSS. One thing that's especially nice about this is I can see how my responsive design looks with various window sizes. Additionally, this will reduce my workload for final implementation significantly. ...
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Week 2, Day 3: AFK
posted Wednesday, June 8 2016 @ 12:05 am EST

Unfortunately, as much as I'd prefer not to take a break this early on in the project, today I have a business meeting in Boston and a family function following that. In lieu of an actual blog post, here are my plans for the rest of the week: Thursday ...
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Week 2, Day 2: UX Design
posted Tuesday, June 7 2016 @ 9:07 pm EST

UI Specification, flowchart, and wireframes ...
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Week 2, Day 1: Research and Planning
posted Monday, June 6 2016 @ 11:22 pm EST

Our Company: This week's site will be promoting "Kūsō Neko Pāku" (Daydreaming Cat Park), a fictional cat café in Tokyo. Originating in Taiwan and very popular in Japan, these theme cafés allow patrons to lounge with a veritable clutter of friendly cats while sipping tea or coffee. Aside from adorable ...
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