A Second Perspective: Living with the iPhone 7 Plus's Dual Cameras
A story for my personal blog.
Harry (Tiancheng) Zhang
tz2309 <at> columbia.edu
Spring 2018
Multiplatform Design & Storytelling
#brand
A simple logo that works at various sizes.
The brand is a take on my initials, H.Z., since I am working on my personal blog
The icon is a morph of the two letters
The hope is to create something simple, iconic, yet intepretable.
The push notification
On Twitter
On Instagram
I happen to be writing my story largely based on what I post to (one of) my Instagram account(s), so a natural fit is to tell my admittedly small audience about where the photos they see are coming from.
On the big screen
Linear storytelling could use some fun on the desktop. What if I put narrations next to the photos, but keep the overall flow intact? I experimented with this idea, and it came out relatively well. You can see the full story below -- just scroll it!
On the small screen
The magic of responsible design enables me to make one page that does well on both desktop and mobile. Here, I tap into the familiar camera interface itself, using the "1x" and "2x" zoom buttons in the iPhone camera app to tell the reader which photo came from which camera.
You can see the full story on the right -- just scroll it!
