DailyUI 001 – Sign Up
As I was feeling that I wasn’t stimulating and satisfying my design urges I took it upon myself to start up a daily challenge in the form of DailyUI. Not only to satiate my own desire to create, but also improve the way I create. Combined with these designs I am given I will do these write ups explaining my thought processes and reasoning behind the design itself. Let’s get started.
The first challenge was to create a sign up form. A fairly good way to ease yourself into the mindset. Immediately as I signed myself up for this one criteria I set was to try and make all icons by myself. So most of the iconography you will see I make from scratch specifically for that design.
In this design we have the check mark in the FAB as well as the back arrow. To stay safe from mistakes the Facebook and Twitter logos are from an icon font.
Another criteria was to mix up my colour schemes. I tend to go pretty cookie cutter, or just use something like the Material Design Palette for my colour choices as Material Design is something I look at for inspiration. As if that wasn’t obvious from the design above. So here we have a magenta tone with a cyan secondary colour. A mix I felt blended well together, and I’m sure I will be using this again in future designs.
Looking at it now I feel like I should have used the cyan underline for the text inputs only for the highlighted one. Which leads me to my third criteria – not changing anything after the fact. Once I’m done and uploaded, that’s that. As a way to teach myself to reflect and learn on the “mistakes” that were made and adapt for future designs.
As for the design itself it’s fairly simple. I’m not restricting myself by making it for certain platforms. I want the designs to work platform independently unless specifically noted.
FABs are something I personally really enjoy and I love the idea behind them. Because of that I am sure you will see a lot of them in my designs. The reasoning behind using it here is because I wanted something to stand out a bit more. I tried with regular buttons, one smaller and one that extended the entire width of the card, but none seemed to fit nor felt exciting. The FAB breaks the tedium as well as gives a big visual indication of a call to action.
I think that’s it for this time. See you next time!