Tools and Conventions

Revisit your purpose

There's a bit of copying and pasting to do to start your development...

From your design stage, copy the following, then make sure it is still relevant for what you are developing.

If something is missing or needs work, go back to the Proposal page to remind yourself what is needed

Purpose

Describe the purpose of your outcome. 

What problem, need, or opportunity is it trying to address?

End users

Describe the users. Who is the audience? 

What do the people who will use your outcome need?

Remember, you are developing this outcome for a user or users. You will need to make sure you keep them in mind at every step of your development process. Ask yourself “How will this work for my users?”

Requirements and specifications

Describe the requirements and specifications

Remember:

• Requirements are the main features or considerations that your project needs to include

• Specifications are more detailed lists of how you plan to meet each requirement

Tools and techniques

For this section you need to choose the most relevant tools or techniques that you will use to create your outcome. You then need to explain why you chose them

Remember:

• Tools are the programs and applications we use to create a digital outcome

• Techniques are how we use the tools to create a digital outcome

So for example:

The tool I will use: 

Photoshop - which is good for single raster images- to give it the photo-realistic appearance

The techniques I will use:

• Applying a metallic effect

• Using layer masks

• Adjusting colours

• Using brushes to create a cloud effect

• Applying filters

• Modifying an image with blur, soften, and clone stamp

Conventions

As you researched during your design process, design conventions (often called principles) are the "rules" or "right ways" to do things in our designs. 

Copy and paste the conventions that are relevant for your digital outcome into your workbook.

Make sure you have explained how they are relevant - just writing the name of the convention is not enough!