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Name: Aksana Cernoguzova  Year: 1981 Country: Latvian/Russian 1.   Did you have any family or cultural traditions growing up Yes, in our culture we celebrate Christmas on New Years Eve. Some things we would do to celebrate would involve putting a grape into a glass of champagne, and making a wish while we drank it just as the clock hit 12 midnight. It was said that this would make your wish come true. Easter was also different for us. We celebrate Easter according to the Orthodox calendar. We would decorate hard boiled eggs for Easter, and on Easter morning we would knock the eggs off each other as a competition to see whose cracks first. We then ate the eggs with special bread we baked for Easter. 2.   Was there an activity or object in your childhood that you would associate specifically with your culture growing up? An activity would include another celebration called Ligo which was specifically a Latvian traditional celebration. It is similar to bonfire night in other...

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During my research, I found three interesting animation references that could inspire the design of our website and make it more interactive and engaging. 1. Unfolding Paper Animation The first animation shows a crumpled or folded piece of paper slowly unfolding when the user interacts with it. This could reveal a hidden memory, a short note, or a childhood story. The effect creates a sense of discovery and makes the content feel personal and nostalgic. https://recent.design/i/urgr6kv-crumpled-paper-unfold 2. Hanging Photo Animation The second animation features a group of photos hanging on a string, like a personal memory display. When the user clicks on a photo, it flips to the other side and reveals a short childhood memory, a story, or information about a traditional game. I think this interaction could work well with the theme of memories and personal archives. https://recent.design/i/8c5u6uo-team-profile-card-component 3. Bookshelf or Notebook Animation The third animation shows ...

Concept Idea The website could be designed as an interactive memory archive, where users click on familiar objects associated with childhood and memories. Each object would reveal a different type of content, such as audio recordings, photographs, written memories, or a timeline of different generations. This approach would make the experience more personal, emotional, and engaging to explore. Interactive Website Elements 1. Cassette Tape Idea: Users click on a cassette tape to listen to an audio memory. What it could reveal: Voice memories Real interview recordings Short sound clips Example: 1956 - Grandma's Memory A short story about a game she used to play as a child. 2. Camera Idea: Users click on a camera to open a photo album or explore individual photographs. What it could reveal: A gallery of memories Old family-style photographs Photos of childhood games, playgrounds, schools, or neighbourhoods 3. Envelope Idea: Users click on an envelope, which opens to reveal a photograp...

This moodboard captures the atmosphere of childhood memories through warm, bright colours, decorative elements, and a personal archive aesthetic. The visual style combines photographs, handwritten notes, postcards, film strips, stickers, frames, and collage compositions to create a sense of nostalgia, playfulness, and emotional connection. Handwritten typography and textures such as paper, cardboard, fabric, and old photographs play an important role, evoking memories of childhood and special moments from the past.

  “Our Childhoods Shaped By Culture”: wireframes and visual styles What I worked on As the UI designer on team JAYS, I turned our research into screens for the project. The designs draw on research from the whole team, with the visual direction mainly based on Arianna’s design work. The idea A digital scrapbook of childhood memories. People share a photo and a short story about growing up in their culture, and visitors can browse the stories like pages in a family album. Step 1: Wireframes I started with low-fidelity desktop wireframes at 1440 × 900. That let me focus on the layout before thinking about colours or decoration. I made seven screens: Cover: the album’s front page, with an “Open the album” button. Contents: browse stories by era, such as the 1990s or 2010s, or by category, like food, celebrations, games, family traditions, and cartoons. Scrapbook spread: the main screen, with a taped photo on one side and the story on the other. Arrows let you turn the pages. Single...

  This is a very condensed moodboard for the visual approach we are going for. The main visual aspect of this project would be a collection of peoples childhood photographs to set the scene/mood. We are also thinking of adding some doodles and handwritten text as seen in some of the examples above. We feel as though this would help create a humble, authentic feel as things online could often feel distant to people.  The main feelings we are aiming to portray are nostalgia, warmth, and familiarity. Fonts We are thinking of using handwritten fonts, to create a 'homey' feel as though you are looking through an album. The main concern is finding a font that is legible for everyone. We will test this out, however if we find that a lot of people are struggling to read the font we will replace the "body" font for a standard font and only keep the title fonts as more personalised ones. 

  Layout Ideas The layout will be a scrapbook/storybook layout.  Since it's about peoples personal recollections and stories a storybook layout and flow would be very suitable. However, we are thinking of including some scrapbook elements to play on the nostalgia aspect.  It would help create the feel that people are flipping through an old photo album rather than a digital space. This would help create a more physical experience for people while still being able to reach a wide population.  For categorisation, we plan on separating the information in terms of eras. So for example 1980's all the ways up to the 2010's. Again, once we gather full information and test this, the layout may change but this is a good starting point.