Design for Screen: Crit with Matthew Tweddle, Only

In order to develop my site further I've gain feedback on initial ideas and wire frames (see figures 1-2) from Matt from Only who specialise in design for screen:

• Use of adjectives could become complicated if people choose the same adjective, could include further refining adjectives to help identify students.
• Could show students self portraits if more than one student has the same adjective.
• Students could pick more than one adjective which represents them so they come up under more than one adjective, use the adjectives as a navigational tool rather than a form of representation. 
• Only use adjectives to show personality, remove those that describe work as the work shown allows the work to speak for itself. 
• Thought the inclusion of animation was good, provided an interesting talking point within the site.
• Could include a way for students to edit there own profile by starting at a similar point so there would be visual consistency, within this there could be a section allowing students to go through a few steps to generate their adjective. 

Thoughts:

In order to help aid usability the only adjectives that will be featured on the site will be those describe the students personalities instead of there work, although there where concerns about repetition within the adjective in reality I feel this wouldn't occur and if so the students could revaluate there choice to avoid this situation. Furthermore although the incorporation of the ability for students to edit there own profile I fell this makes the concept of the site too complex as it was to feature a single brief per student to give professionals an idea of what there work is like. Although this feature would allow the personality of the student to show through further I feel the use of the self portrait and the adjective is enough to leave an impression on professionals as the inclusion of personalising profiles could take away from the overall visual consistency which allows the students to be shown as a creative community. Overall the use of adjectives describing the students personality solves the main issue highlighted within the crit of how to avoid repetition and keep the site simple allowing the audience to complete there tasks with a minimal workflow. 

Figure 1

Figure 2