Sunday, November 30, 2014

Exploratory Design Sketches

Some sketches exploring possible aesthetics for the app, along the lines of medieval illuminated manuscripts and elaborate picture frames / plaques.


Idea for main screen / interface - framing things, reducing things to imagery and decoration rather than raw blocks of text


Frame detail - possible edge decoration for design


Trying to represent points in a different manner - banners, battle standards


Further banner exploration concerning main interface - this is a dead end though, I think, obscures interface too much, overwhelms it.




Thursday, November 20, 2014

Preliminary Page Layouts / Colour Scheme Tests

The main page in all six clan-specific colour schemes, the one each user will see for the clan they are part of. Overall design, use of typefaces etc. is merely preliminary, needs extra medieval-ing, just trying to distill things down to look as uncomplicated as possible for this iteration (measurements are based on the iPhone 5c display area).







The following are the rest of my sketched designs for the app's layout/general appearance, including notes on where scrolling or specific kinds of selection occurs: