Hand-Held Process
For our handheld piece, we decided to design and create a physical planner that goes along with our digital app, and started out by simple explorations of what the layout of some of the inside pages may look like.
After settling down on our visual language and based on the visual language we used for our poster, we began to try to incorporate these elements into our handheld planner. We thought about various ideas for the front and back cover but we hope to keep the concept of “from unorganized to organized” and continue to show this through out visual elements.
We thought of incorporating the dots and circles in our planner and tried creating different patterns using the circles. We also explored the idea of including the use of gradients.
However, as we continued to work and alter our posters, we decided to simplfy our planner a little and keep it clean and not as busy and complicated to our previous version to keep it visually connected to the cleanness of our other pieces. We also altered our visual language slightly and incorporated a blue-green cool color in addition to the orange.
For the content of this hand-held planner, we decided to add a “what is this purpose” page to tie it together with our system and also an example and instructions page to inform people about the possibility of using it along with our mobile app if they choose to. We also continue to tried to adjust little details within to see what works best, such as making the headings of each page centered and adding more patterns to some of the pages.
Adding in some of the hand written text for the example pages, we hope to give the user a better sense of using this planner, and also include things such as getting enough sleep, working out, etc, in the tasks as well and not just think about school tasks.
After slightly altering the colors and visual language of our poster, we also edit our patterns and graphic style in relation to what we have on our poster, and bellow are some explorations with incorporating it into our planner.
Then, we also moved from working in Illustrator to InDesign, to adjust our type sizes, type settings, margins, etc, and keep them consistent. After doing test prints for quite a few times, we ending up using 0.5in margins on all sizes and also adjusted the space for writing down the task to 2 lines instead of 1 line to provide more space for each. We also added in all the content and visuals into InDesign as shown bellow:
Above is about half of our pages and we plan to have about 24 spreads in this planner (but the layout for the rest mostly repeats what we have here). However, after thinking through and making prototypes, we decided to go with 32 spreads instead of 48 as planned since we didn’t want to make the planner too thick as it defeats the purpose of it being easily take-able and carry-able. We also decided to incorporate more of the cut out circles inside our planner to create more of an playful effect and added more of these pages to work together with the quote pages. After making lots of minor adjustments with the colors, graphics, and cut out holes, bellow is a layout of our final hand-held planner:
We also designed some stickers that goes along with it and an see-through envelope to put the set together and can easily be handed out. Bellow are some photographs of our stickers and final hand-held set:
