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Progress Update #5: Lo-Fi Wireframes Pau!

Hey everyone! So glad you’re stopping by my Tumblr blog again! Read ↓below↓ for my project update details!

What has been happening over the past 2 weeks?

These past two weeks have been pretty busy as I worked on my other classes’ assignments. I went against the advice of our professor, who said, “Use the spring break to catch up,” but I instead opted to relax and decompress. I actually went outside this time, touched grass, and shopped at malls, unlike my previous breaks, when I would just stay cooped up in my house reading manga. I pretty much crammed some last-minute work before class today and the night before. At the very least, I finished my low-fidelity wireframes for the five microsites. In my last post, I only completed my low-fidelity wireframes for the main website, so I am happy to have done more. I think I forgot to mention that I reduced the scope of my website. Instead of ten designs, I narrowed it down to just five to make it more manageable for myself. If I also fail to deliver a fully functional website, I will fall back on a website prototype as a backup.

What is coming up for the next 2 weeks?

My next step is to complete my high-fidelity wireframes based on the low-fidelity ones. For this step, I will need to gather assets, such as images and text (copy) to use. After that, I will work on recreating the design on the actual website using Wix, hopefully by next week on the 30th. I want to launch the website as soon as possible to ensure there is ample time to gather data by collecting votes from my Instagram Stories polls, summarizing the results, and posting the summary on the site. So, that’s where I am heading over the next two weeks.

Hiccups/Hurdles/AHA moments

A hurdle I had to overcome was my perfectionist mindset. Because I want everything to be perfect, it was a struggle to begin tackling my five microsite wireframe designs. I did not know where to start, but once I began working, I had momentum. At this point, I realized I really just need to pass. Of course, I want to put out my best work, but I may need to take some shortcuts.

I had an AHA moment when I realized that I still had some time before I needed to launch my website. It is not a lot of time, but I remain hopeful. However, throughout this whole creative process, I have had serious self-doubt about completing this project. I had given up in high school for a STEM capstone project for STEM honors, where I dropped the class and forfeited the honors. It was definitely not my proudest moment, but I like to believe I have changed drastically from that time. Although I have self-doubt and imposter syndrome, I have accomplished a lot to get to where I am now. While I do not believe I was the person to actually achieve these things, I am trying to be more grateful and celebrate the small victories. By the end of this project, I hope to savor my triumph and success exuberantly with my friends and family. I am so close to the finish line. We all are. We got this, guys!

Any deliverable drafts to share?

At the top of this post, you will find screenshots of my low- and high-fidelity wireframes from Figma. I have finished my lo-fi wireframes and am beginning to work on my hi-fi ones. Click here to view my documentation for this project thus far. I have compiled my brand color palette, study guide, user personas, sitemap, and lo-fi wireframes into one Figma file to have everything in one place.

Where are you on your timeline?

I am kind of in the production phase, depending on how you look at it. I categorized wireframes under the production phase, but others may still consider them to be in the pre-production phase. Needless to say, I am quite behind, as I have assigned myself to launch my website this past Sunday. Now I know that the deadlines I set for myself are tentative and bound to change, so I won’t beat myself up over it too much. I am proud I have at least finished my lo-fi wireframes, which were substantially weighing on my mind due to feeling overwhelmed. Even so, I have reduced the scope of my project, which has lifted that immense burden off my shoulders.

That’s all for now! Thanks for tuning in ^_^

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Progress Update #2: Workback Plan Pau!

Welcome back to my Tumblr blog! Per our CM 491 class schedule, I will post progress updates biweekly or every two weeks. Expect to see posts on Mondays or Tuesdays!

What has been happening over the past 2 weeks?

To get you all caught up, I finally completed my workback plan (pau means “finished” or “done” in Hawaiian)! If you are curious about how it looks, here’s the link: Galacgac_R_WorkbackPlan. I tried my best to make it look organized and visually appealing, using colors and formatting for contrast. I like color coding, so I made each phase different: pre-production = purple, productive = blue, and post-production = pink. I also “started” on my timeline but am still working on it. So, that’s what I’ve been working on these past two weeks.

What is coming up for the next 2 weeks?

Here is what the next two weeks will look like. Once my workback plan is approved, I will begin working on my user personas and a design doc for branding. After that, my wireframe sketches will be next!

Hiccups/Hurdles/AHA moments

Although demotivation and procrastination have been my top two hurdles, I am pretty proud of the workback plan I created. I locked in and did what I set out to do.

Any deliverable drafts to share?

Unfortunately, other than the workback plan, I come empty-handed with deliverable drafts. Please forgive me! Hopefully, in the next two weeks, I have more to show.

Where are you on your timeline?

I am pretty behind on my timeline; I won’t lie. I should be starting on my pre-production phase. However, I will take this time to celebrate accomplishing a milestone, which was my workback plan. I am pretty proud of it, and I probably spent an unnecessarily long time on the stylization and making it look nice and presentable. I picked up a few spreadsheet skills from my previous office job, so I wanted to show them off here, haha. Aside from filling out the template with actual information and deadlines, I focused most of my time on data validation, formatting, and coloring.

That’s all for this update! Thanks for stopping by :)

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Progress Update #7: IG Polls Pau! Survey Released!

Aloha, everyone! 🤙 Super excited to have you back on my Tumblr! Check out the thrilling updates on my project ↓below↓!

What has been happening over the past 2 weeks?

I’m ecstatic to announce that we are almost done! We are so close to the finish line. We only have two weeks left, and I believe everyone can make it! I think this is the last required update post, so my next post will most likely be the last, which will be my reflection. 

So, what have I been up to these past two weeks? Well, I just finished my Instagram campaign, and I am delighted that so many people participated! Again, a huge thank you to everyone who voted. I cannot thank you enough. You were the backbone of this project!

I also finished compiling, summarizing, and analyzing the results of my Instagram polls. I only updated it on my website prototype, not Instagram, because I wanted to push out the conclusion post as soon as possible.

What is coming up for the next 2 weeks?

For the next two weeks, I will let people respond to my usability testing survey form and integrate the feedback I receive into my website prototype. The last two steps will be creating a walkthrough video of my prototype and recording a final reflection video. I must also fill out the bio form for my personal senior capstone page. Man, I am so glad we do not need to record a final presentation. I guess that was only for the pre-capstone class. Either way, I am proud of my progress thus far!

Hiccups/Hurdles/AHA moments

I had a little hiccup with my scoring criteria. I was too late when I noticed that it said on a scale of (1-5) on my Google Sheets tables for my Instagram results, when it should have been (1-4). I made a note of this error and added it to the posts.

Some hurdles I had to overcome were procrastination and demotivation. I was motivated to work on my Instagram polls, but I had a mental block when it came to compiling, analyzing, and summarizing the results. I thought it was too much work and did not want to do or even touch it. On top of other classwork, it was a lot to do, and when I have mountains of work ahead of me, obviously, I felt overwhelmed. 

I had an AHA moment when I discovered Instagram drafts, which significantly helped speed up the process of creating polls. It was a tedious process of creating, typing the criteria, and resizing the polls, but the drafts feature helped me save time by allowing me to develop polls ahead of time so that when I needed to post them, I could instantly do so. So, I created all the polls on Monday and posted them to my stories day by day.

Any deliverable drafts to share?

I have a screenshot of my Google Forms usability testing survey at the top of this post, which can be accessed here. The updated website prototype is also linked on the survey form, but I will link it here again for easier access. Also, feel free to check out my Instagram account again for the conclusion and results! Here is a direct link to my Google Sheets data.

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Google Forms - Usability Testing Survey Form: https://forms.gle/d6ddkkoJxZKt5VCu8

Figma - Website Prototype: https://www.figma.com/proto/QFgVXtu0MNs7YHqouaoLJy/Galacgac_R_ADSProject_CM491?page-id=138%3A553&node-id=138-3732&p=f&viewport=922%2C223%2C0.08&t=WhyiXVrRUBiCBlRc-1&scaling=scale-down&content-scaling=fixed&starting-point-node-id=138%3A3732 

Instagram - ADS Project Account (For Conclusion & Results): https://www.instagram.com/ads_project_491/ 

Google Sheets - Calculated Data Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZxO_BWNllhsiAwS-icTo72_HSaZdg_ev-qhATL1_BkA/edit?usp=sharing

Where are you on your timeline?

I am gleefully ahead of my timeline! I am currently in the post-production phase. I just need to fine-tune and revise my project.

That’s everything! Thank you for this amazing journey and your support! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

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Progress Update #6: Hi-Fi Wireframes, Prototype, & IG Polls!

Hello, hello! 👋 Thrilled to have you back on my Tumblr blog! Dive ↓below↓ for exciting updates on my project!

What has been happening over the past 2 weeks?

Website ➜ Website Prototype

First, some bad news, but good news for me. After emailing my instructor, she approved my decision to reduce the scope of my project from delivering a website to just a website prototype. Given the time constraints, I fell back on a website prototype, which I previously mentioned as a backup. I also want to say that I have been describing my web designs as microsites when I really meant webpages.

Website Updates

With that out of the way, boy, oh boy, do I have some great news! I locked in and got a lot of work done during these past two weeks. Needless to say, I have been super productive! I finally finished my high-fidelity wireframes in three to four days, and after that, it was just a matter of setting up the hotspots for my prototype. The prototype didn't take me too long, I’d say 30 minutes up to an hour. I simply connected the pages to each other for navigation. 

Instagram Updates

Yesterday, Sunday, I finished the drafts of my Instagram stories and posts and just started my campaign there. The polls began on Monday, April 7 (today) and will be posted daily at 12 PM until Friday, April 11. I will post the results after the polls close, so it’s a day at most. I will also post the polls as story highlights when they're done campaigning. I advertised and promoted my Instagram Stories on Discord (ACMWO, ASUHWO, UHM, YFP, and NCH servers) and Slack (UXHI), so hopefully we see some results! By the way, if you don't know already, I run the ACMWO (Academy for Creative Media at West Oahu) server for our server, albeit unofficially. Here is the link to our Discord server for fellow ACM students to join: https://discord.gg/XypuYABU7n!

What is coming up for the next 2 weeks?

Once the results are finalized after Friday, I will begin summarizing them, which will be posted on my website prototype on Figma and Instagram. After I update the results page on my prototype, I will send out a Google Form survey for user testing, which will be the starting point for my post-production phase. I am so close to the finish line; it’s exciting!

Hiccups/Hurdles/AHA moments

I encountered a little hiccup when I realized that Instagram polls only accept four options, so I had to reduce the scoring from five to four. So, instead of rating the website designs on a scale of 1 to 5, it is now from 1 to 4. I could've easily avoided this blunder by just testing the Instagram polls beforehand. That was my bad! 😓

An AHA moment I realized was discovering a Figma plugin where AI would generate a high-fidelity wireframe, which was perfect for my project. It was also the reason I fell back on a prototype. I was unsure how I would let AI generate on a website using Wix, so you cannot imagine my immense relief when I learned about this plugin. It was life-saving, to say the least.

Any deliverable drafts to share?

At the top of this post, you will find screenshots of high-fidelity wireframes and my prototype from Figma. I have also included my introductory post for Instagram. Click here to view my project documentation again and see the updates. If you're curious about the drafts for Instagram stories and posts, I have linked the Canva files to them, respectively. They have been approved by my instructor, which is why I have begun campaigning. Plugging this again, but here’s my Instagram account! Please follow me, don’t be shy, and keep voting until Friday!

୨⎯Update Thursday, April 9 (4/9/25)⎯୧:

I just realized I forgot to share my prompts and website copy document for my hi-fi wireframes, so here it is! Google Docs Link. You can navigate the document using the “Document tabs” on the left.

Where are you on your timeline?

I am proud to announce that I am officially in the production phase, very close to the post-production phase! I am so glad to finally be back on track for this project, which I have dreamed of for so long. I was so anxious and uncertain about whether I could even finish this project, but it looks so much more attainable now! I am very proud of myself for making it this far. Graduation is now within my reach!

That’s a wrap! Appreciate you stopping by (≧◡≦) ♡

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Progress Update #4: DITL, Sitemap, & Wireframes!

Hey guys, welcome back to my Tumblr blog! Read ↓below↓ what I have been up to for this project!

What has been happening over the past 2 weeks?

These past two weeks, I have completed my DITL video (90 seconds, or 1 minute and 30 seconds long), site map, and low-fidelity (lo-fi) wireframes for my main website, which are attached at the top of this post.

What is coming up for the next 2 weeks?

In the next two weeks, I plan to finalize my wireframes (maybe make high-fidelity [hi-fi] wireframes based on the lo-fi ones?), write the website content and prompts for each microsite, and develop the code for my WordPress website. I just wanted to get the basic production phase deliverables out of the way, which I should have done last time. Yep, I am behind, haha…

Hiccups/Hurdles/AHA moments

One hiccup I encountered was while working on my wireframes on Figma. The placeholder image box would stretch with the frames when resizing, and the solution I came up with was just to start from scratch. Basically, I would just copy and paste the placeholder image again and resize it to match how it was originally. This was not an ideal solution, as restarting multiple times took longer, but hey, if it works, it works.

A hurdle I need to overcome is my procrastination. I could try time blocking my schedule for when I work on my capstone, dedicating certain times and days to it.

I had an AHA moment when I came across Jouviane Alexandre's article “Will AI Replace Web Designers? 5 Things Designers Do Better Than AI” for my research. It essentially confirmed my biases (confirmation bias) about how web designers are not to be replaced by AI yet. In my precapstone paper, one argument I had was that they cannot empathize. Sure, they could mimic empathy, but they do not have that face-to-face interaction and emotional connection a client and web designer would have in person. Another trump card human designers have is our creativity. Again, AI can generate “new” designs, but we humans have that creative direction and vision they lacks. Time and time again, I have faced the question, “But won’t AI replace web designers? Isn’t your job useless?” The latter was not outright spoken to me but was heavily implied. While AI can program code, generate art, and even design websites now, they cannot replace us for the abovementioned reasons. You can create websites, but they might lack clear visual hierarchy, layout/structure, navigation, and other user experience (UX) elements. For the user interface (UI), you can use any colors, images, and buttons you want. Still, to the trained eye, it will not look as visually appealing as when a web designer has meticulously selected the color palettes and whatnot, and it will lack cohesiveness. Sorry for the rant, haha. I am pretty tired of people telling me that web design and art as a whole will be replaced by AI.

Any deliverable drafts to share?

I have attached images of my sitemap and wireframes so far, as well as links. These were from my DITL (Day in the Life) video assignment, and I have not progressed beyond that since I focused on my other classes. I realize that my top priority should be my capstone project, as it is a requirement for graduation. I guess that could also be my AHA moment.

Where are you on your timeline?

I would say I am still very behind on my timeline. I need to start working on my microsites, which will be the bulk of my project. I should have completed a visual timeline a long time ago, so I will try to finish that to reference where I am instantly, what needs to be done, and how far along I am until the finish line. I can take a peek and know exactly where I am with a glance.

That’s all from me. Thanks for checking in! :D

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Progress Update #1: Social Media

What has been happening since the start of the semester?

Since the start of the semester, I’ve been busy setting up this Tumblr blog and customizing it to my preference. As you can obviously tell, my favorite color is blue, more specifically, sky blue and other shades of light blue, like pastel and baby blue. Other than that, I also started creating the social media needed for this project. I made a new YouTube channel dedicated to this project called Artificial Design Showdown, which you can also find in my links tab on this blog by clicking the three lines next to the search bar. Additionally, I made an Instagram account (@ads_project_491), which currently holds no content, but I plan to post stories for the polls and the results as actual posts.

What is coming up for the next 2 weeks?

In the next two weeks, I will continue to work on my workback/production plan and focus on sketching wireframes for my website. I will also research front-end coding, which platform to host my website, and inspiration or reference website designs. I have some web design books lying around that I can also read for additional research and knowledge.

Hiccups/Hurdles/AHA moments

A hurdle I encountered was procrastination. This past Friday (1/24), I worked diligently, completing two quizzes and assignments while also working my last day at the Academic Affairs Office. I accomplished a lot, and whenever I have super productive days like that, I reward myself with reading manga and decompressing. However, I over-rewarded myself by spending the entire weekend just reading and not working on much. I had an AHA moment while creating the profile picture that I would use all across my social media. I was looking for inspiration and wanted to have a robot head and a human head facing each other like a face-off. In the end, I went with the heads facing away from each other arranged diagonally with the versus (VS) in the middle. If they faced each other in a straight horizontal line, there would be negative space since profile pictures are usually round circles.

Any deliverable drafts to share?

For the social media branding, I created profile pictures, banners, and descriptions/bios. I have attached screenshots of each social media account I have so far: YouTube, Tumblr, and Instagram, as well as the Canva projects I made for the branding. I wanted to personalize the social media accounts to tailor them to my personality so they were not just blank and empty.

Where are you on your timeline?

I would say I am still at the beginning of my timeline, but at least I have prepared the social media aspect of this project. I still need to work on my workback plan, but I will try to finish it in less than a week or before the deadline (2/4).

Well, that’s a wrap! I hope you are all as excited as I am! Thanks for checking in on my project, and I look forward to further developments and updates!

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Noughts and Crosses Progress Update

It's been a few days since we kicked off the closed testing phase for our little noughts and crosses game, and honestly, we're feeling pretty good about it. Nothing too fancy—just a basic game, but we're proud of what we've made so far, especially the vibe we've managed to create. Soon, we'll be ready to apply for production, which feels like a big step for us.

It might not be the most groundbreaking project, but there's something incredibly satisfying about bringing even a simple game to life. We wanted to share this small update—it's a basic start, but it's ours, and we're excited for what's next.

We'd Love Your Feedback

We would love to hear your thoughts! What features or ideas would you like to see in our version of a noughts and crosses game? Your input means a lot to us as we continue to develop and improve.

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Yeah, I decided I'll leave the progress updates until I have something to update that is of significance. I'll leave a link to my twitch channel in the comments. 4.10-1.11

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Yeah, I forgot to post this week, but to be fair I was very tired on Friday. 27.9-6.10

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Another week of minimal but some work. May next week be at least the same if not better. 20.9-27.9

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Hopefully I'll have some time next week once life calms down a little. 6.9-13.9

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I'm trying to be more positive about not being as productive for very legitimate reasons. 23.8-30.8

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I'm glad to be back to writing and drawing properly. 16.8-23.8

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I might start only doing these if I did at least something related to my writing, but let's see if I need to. 9.8-16.8

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Not as productive in terms of writing, but at least I'm still doing things. 26.7-02.08

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I simply was making no progress on Escape To Thithlonde, so back to TSITL I go. And soon I might start posting some worldbuilding snippets and character glimpses.