The Participant The first task was to provide a designer with clear feedback on the usability of their WordPress website, using the live broadcasting software OBS. Designer Evaluation To complete the second task, we were instructed to create a list of eight website interactions to be carried out by a user to ensure a smooth user experience on our WordPress websites. I gave Ellie Ward the list of interactions below and asked her to test and evaluate my site.  The overall outcome of the user evaluation was a success. The user didn’t run into any major user experience issues and navigated the whole site well with no assistance. The points below are recommendations from the user to improve some aspects of the user experience.  Below are images and videos of changes I made to my WordPress website after the feedback from the user.  The first change I made to the site is the addition of a home button to the menu section, this change was made to make locating specific posts easier for the user. Although after consideration, I decided to remove the home button and instead insert a hover mode to the site title. Changing the hover colour of the site title prompts the user to click it, which I felt made the website look sleeker and more professional.  The second change I made to the site is the addition of a search bar located in the menu section. The addition of the search bar makes it much easier for the user to locate specific posts. The addition also makes it quicker for the user to navigate the website.   The final change I made to the site was ensuring that all images on every post are clickable and enlargeable. This ensures the user can see each image better without having to use the mouse or keyboard to manually zoom into each image, which can be particularly frustrating when the manual way of zooming takes the user out of the webpage.  Overall, I feel the user feedback helped me make my website a lot more user-friendly with the addition of these important features. 

The video below was created using OBS a live broadcasting software, which can be used to capture both voice input and also screen capture. The video is a tutorial based around manipulating text in Adobe Illustrator by creating outlines and using shapes and the pen tool to make adobe fonts unique. The technique can be used in many circumstances such as logo and brand design. The branded animated logo was designed using Adobe After Effects.

The video below was created in Premiere Pro and explores my world at Costa. I decided to make a video exploring how we make one of the most popular and difficult drinks at Costa which is the Flat White.

The first task was to explore Elementor and discover the tools that can be used to make a website fully customisable. I first experimented with colours, I tried to build a complementary colour pallet with the tools available on Elementor. I changed the colours on my website in the site settings menu and played around with them until I found a palette that could potentially be used in my campaigning portfolio. I then decided to explore different typography options, I wanted to find fonts which could be used across a wide range of projects. The two fonts I found on Google Fonts are bold and highly legible with characteristics I could potentially utilise throughout my portfolio website. I changed my font in site settings to Staatliches as it has an urban feel to it, which I would like to interpret in my portfolio piece.  Next, I used images from previous posts to explore the image settings on Elementor. I used an image from a climate protest and decided to change the size and composition of the image on the page. I then discovered that I could make image carousels which could be useful in later projects. There are many options when creating the image carousels, such as size, number of images, and navigational options which help make the carousel fully customisable.  Finally, I decided to explore different widgets such as ratings and countdowns. The countdown widget could be useful when planning events or counting the days until a specific launch or product release.  The second task was to create a mood board exploring ideas which could be used in the campaigning portfolio project. The main aim of creating the mood board was to come up with a specific colour pallet and typography options for use throughout the website. This was difficult as I was still unsure of what message I wanted to convey in the final portfolio website. I created my mood board using illustrator and photoshop. 

The PDF below is an informational guide for students on ways to protect important data in WordPress.