Seeing as I went with a fairly simplistic design model, the navigation panel was one of the most trying steps of the design. Doing the guides was the starting point, but once I got the rectangle shape in there was a lot of adjusting to the spacing. I knew I wanted spacing in between each option, but I didn’t know how much I wanted at the top and bottom, so I played around with those aspects a bit. Getting the gradient in them was a fun step, since I went back to the background to draw colours. I ran into a little more indecision when it came to the text for the navigation buttons. Mostly it came down to just figuring out how small they had to be so that they were all the same and the longest one still fit.
And finally, here’s the finished product
Devin 