good design/bad design
UIWEB.COM Issue #8 : Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design
Site Planning
Web Style Guide : planning, setting goals
Site Specification
Web Style Guide : Site Specification
Visual Vocabulary for IA
A visual vocabulary
for describing information architecture and interaction design
Page Design
Web Style Guide : Page Design. Read the whole chapter.
Typography
Web Style Guide : Typography. Read the whole chapter.
Information, commerce, emotion, and visual style converge in the digital landscape. It is the designer’s responsibility to shape a unique experience for users of a web site. Creating meaning online, from bits of data and pixels, requires that you understand how to collaborate well with Web technology, what the constraints of the Web are, and how to manage expectations.
This course teaches students how to design and implement for the web. This includes mastering file format techniques and obtaining the skills to communicate effectively in the digital realm. The course is woven from components of visual and conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, graphic production, and the web development process. The course benefits those who want to learn how to communicate through design on the web, including artists and designers making the transition to the web from other media.
Students create meaning from the course content by studying design theory, analyzing the design work of others, and creating designs of their own. Students gain both the theoretical perspective and practical skills needed to improve their knowledge and skills as web designers. Students participate in hands-on activities, small group project work, class discussions, and complete writing assignments. Lectures are woven with demonstrations, in-class exercises, guest presentations, case studies, and visual presentations of web site content. Students will have access to a course web site with resources and links to articles and books.
This course will be rewarding for students interested in expanding their experience in the field of Visual and Interactive Design for the Web.
Students must be familiar with a bitmap editor (the GIMP, Photoshop, Fireworks, etc.) and editing HTML, either by hand or with a tool such as Dreamweaver.
75% Final project
25% Class activities: Required Readings and materials
Each student is required to bring a ZIP disk, USB hard-drive or other storage device for use in this class.
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