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 Architecture – site tructure
Navigation – site maps, multiple groupings of links
Local navigation – page structure
Independence of pages
DENIM
User Flow tools – Storyboarding, Scenarios, Use-cases, Personas
Early Review – the Usability Process
GUEST SPEAKER :
Dominic Sagolla, Software Designer & Tester, Macromedia
EXERCISE :
Group browse and discuss IA
HOMEWORK :
1.Create IA documents for your site – clusters of pages
2.Create 2-4 User paths through the data
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