Feedback Loop 2: Nikki Ware

Looking at Nikki Ware’s redesign of the Music Library at UNCG, I really appreciate the progress she has made since day 1 of the design. Her first go at the space was very bright, creative, and loud as an overall design. While this was a unique approach, I think her second design really fit the needs of the Music Library. Nikki’s concept was encapsulate and the idea of “binding together the physical forms of knowledge with the technological forms and encapsulating the users into an engaging and interactive environment”. Yes, that is a lot of big words. But Nikki brought this concept into a simple, clean, yet thought out design.


One thing that I noticed that really “encapsulated” the space was the use of rhythm. Rhythm is everywhere and I think that’s what makes her design strong. It keeps your eyes moving throughout the space while keeping everything together as one design.I think one of Nikki’s challenges may have been use of color. There is a lot of it. Her color palette suggests Chartreuse, Sea Foam, and Orange – all pretty bold colors. These three colors look great in the materials board, but then in some renderings, there seems to be more than just those three colors in some of the scenes and it gets a little too colorful. With the rhythm throughout the space being an obvious success for Nikki, I don’t think as much color is necessary. She could try celebrating the rhythm and put the focus on those elements instead of taking away from it.
I also think annotations would be helpful and maybe little keys to show where the renderings were taken from.

Overall, I really did enjoy Nikki’s design. This rendering (above) is my favorite because it shows how multi functional the space is and how the materiality works in the space with rhythm and encapsulation.