Workshop Week Part 2

During Workshop Week I attended a lecture and a mini workshop created by Chris Skelton and Chris Kemm - former students of the University of Huddersfield. They both went into great detail about the course Multimedia Design BA Hons and talked about their experience of it. They explained how beneficial taking a placement year was and advised us on what to do. Skelton worked at Next and Kemm worked at Fantastic Media during their placement year. Both got guaranteed jobs after uni but after a while wanted to join and start their own design agency which they called  What Creative Design Agency, taking on lots of large clients over 5 years they then did lots of work for Fantastic Media who offered to merge and create Thompson Brand Partners.

The workshop was all about the first steps before creating a website. In groups, we were put in a scenario where we were designing a webpage for customers of a coffee shop. We had to think about what potential clients would approach our website and what they would be looking for. Below are character profiles we created and the beginning designs of a website both for computer and phone view.