After receiving feedback from my peers and teacher, I looked again at creating the website pages by taking their criticisms and praise into mind. From this, this is my final draft for the Jupiter website.

I decided to tone down the opacity of the ‘spider’s legs’ coming out of Jupiter’s body and also added several long yellow lines to forgo this illusion. We also decided to change the stars to something smaller and more faded to give the illusion of them glowing, which would help with the child-like theme of the product. We also got rid of the arrows as this made the website not look as fun and seemed more boring.

There isn’t much that I changed for Uranus’ design because I did like the original design itself. Again, I edited the stars to make them smaller and to make them glow. I also changed the blue shapes behind Uranus by making them a deeper blue, and also by expanding them further than originally. The reason why I did this is because I think it looks neater and also gives the illusion that Uranus itself is glowing.

We did have some thoughts on what would happen if the website would be created. I liked the idea of when the cursor passes over the stars they move and chime, like wind-chimes, and swing on their string. I also liked the idea of when you hovered over Uranus or Jupiter or a planet it blinked and smiled and perhaps made a ‘ooh’ noise. It would also be possible to zoom into the text if it was difficult to read by double clicking on it. I also liked the idea that if you passed over the blue shapes at the back of Uranus they glowed, and if you passed over the yellow lines coming out of Jupiter they wiggled. The reason why I thought about this is because I think it would make the website a lot more fun for children whilst also being educational.

After completing my posters, it was time to move on to creating my own two pages for the website. We had worked together to create the designs ourselves as a group. This was my attempt at a website page for Jupiter.

I quite like this design, because I like the layout of, especially the bar at the top of the screen as it feel like it looks professional. The use of the stars I also quite like because it gives that child-like feeling that Little Big Planet brought. However, the poster does still look too cramped and from the feedback given in our presentation today, the boxes coming away from Jupiter itself do look almost like spiders’ legs. This will be something I need to fix in the later editions.

This was also my attempt at a website page for Uranus.

Again, I like the overall layout of the website. This page also looks less cramped. I had decided to include some background detail such as the blue circles around Uranus itself to make it look more fun. However, I would edit these slightly because they are covering Uranus’ eyes and this doesn’t look as professional if they had been behind the actual planet itself.

This is my final attempt at the infographic for the brief. I decided to space out the text and graphics so as not to make it looked cramped like the other attempts. I found hand-drawn vectors and coloured them to make the alien and the spaceship look more effective as a children’s educational poster. I also followed the theme in the Star Wars poster and included dark arrows in blue to highlight where the children would need to read to and from. I do like this design, but if I had more time and more patience perhaps, I would have aimed to make the poster look a bit more exciting, such as making the text appear in different angles.

I was starting to get concerned that I wouldn’t find a good poster design. All the posters that I had created so far were too cramped, and had too much happening in them. I decided to re-research more posters when I came across two infographics.

This is the first. I loved this idea. Although the poster is quite full, the text is spaced out enough that it is easy enough to read, and the position of the planets across the page makes it easy on the eye. The use of arrows also helps to clarify to the audience where exactly to read to, and the contrast of the bright graphics against the black background of space is exactly what I’m looking for. Overall, I like the design of this poster, and I will consider this design when creating my own infographics.

Following on from this vein, I also found this infographic.

The use of the child-like graphics and bright colours are what drew my attention to this poster. This is again something that we would like to consider thinking about when we are creating out own posters.

This was another attempt at the poster that I looked at: trying to create a timeline to describe how Einstein came to write the Theory of Relativity. However, I only managed to create the timeline itself before we decided that the concept didn’t really suit what we were looking for and that, again, the poster would become too cramped when including the planet graphics and text.