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.
Simplicity, Consistency
From print to pixels
Out of the fold
Repetition
Layouts
Web typography
Color
The grid
Cascading Style Sheets
Visualizing data – Edward Tufte
GUEST SPEAKER :
tbd
EXERCISE :
Group browse and catalog styles.
CSS Exercise
HOMEWORK :
1.Write a “creative brief” for treatment of your site. You can use the linked template as a starting-off point.
2.Refine User document
3.UI Comps
4. bring in 2 styles with interesting layouts for the CSS Test App
5. Reading in right column. We can discuss ideas in the text at the fourth class.
(all links that we talked about in class are now on left column with other class links.)
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