Practical Development from Crit

Wanting to start developing more of a overall aesthetic to the add on feature.
- Charlie mentioned grammarly in our crit and how they have pop ups with icons that mean different things:



^something like this could be a development to make for my own project?

Sketchbook notes/ideas

Name:
Switch (can't use cos of nintendo)
Change (too obvious)
Move (sounds too fitness)
 - Think of synonyms
Transformation
Swap
Reversal
Shift - like this one, trying to make a shift in choices.

Developing names, thinking along the lines of change, reversing, moving forwards etc. Came up with Shift, trying to shift the norm etc.
Thinking of typefaces, how this could work, what feel it gives off.
- Lots of eco brands have a more fluffy aesthetic, I'm needing to draw the line between professional as well as personal. Want to avoid looking intimidating.

Pushing forward the icon idea that could potentially be incorporated, having icons for eneger, co2 emissions and water usage.
- Could these pop up and people click on them for more info?
- How would this work?

^ Icons would go green or red depending on the product, the less eco friendly they go red, the more they go green.
- Don't really like this idea, if feels too negative and I can imagine it being annoying and easy to ignore.

Idea drifting, feel the pop ups are more personal and would have a more successful impact on the audience due to the personal feel. 
- Where to go with aesthtetic, very robotic at the moment, maybe try paper cutting more organic shapes? Give it more personality?




















- cut the icon shapes out of paper and scanned in to develop icons that were less robotic.
- Thought I could use the off cuts too to develop a visual perhaps?

^Playing around with colour as well as shape
- Prefer this aesthetic to the digitally made ones, however it still feels a little lost. People respinded really well to the google maps aesthetic, and my peers in my crit said keeping it minimal would work well for what I'm making.
- Need to test pop ups to see how it would all look once it comes together.
- Like the idea of having the larger shapes in the backgroudn rather than lots of small ones. Maybe this could be experimented with more?
- The icons feel a little childish when placed with the text, having them as icons only might be a better way to go.

To Do:
1. Develop pop ups using the shapes made
2. Think of a way to incorporate icons