week 8 : 24 february
Design Principles - Foundations

Tonight's Schedule

• Reading review
• Guest Speaker : Christine Castigliano, metaToggle
• Projects review

Notes

• Team Project Deliverables - details
• Sites we like and don't like - reading review

Assignments

• Book reviews due next week!
• Please complete speaker evaluation
• Readings (please respond to questions and ePost by 6 pm on Monday)
  • After reading these articles, define "web site navigation" (your words), describe the current state of web site navigation (your observations) and explain why you think navigation has evolved in this manner (your opinion, any navigation design principles you've developed):
    1. Eat Me, Drink Me, Push Me: In which the subtle arts of the interface are examined, Christina Wodtke
    2. Web Page Layout: A Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site Navigation Menus
    3. Cognitive Psychology & IA: From Theory to Practice, Jason Withrow
    4. Characteristics of Web Site Designs: Reality vs. Recommendations, Melody Y. Ivory

resources - task analysis

• Background - Task Analysis
• Maximizing Human Performance, Bruce Tognazzini
• Overview of Norman on Task Analysis
• Users and their tasks

resources - design principles

• Art 104: Design and Composition
• Art 2120: Balance (pdf)
• Art 2120: Design Principles (pdf)
• Art 2120: Positive and Negative Space
• Custom Design - Overview
• Design Principles Review
• Foundations of Design and Typography
• Free clip art and stock photos
• Grid, White Space, Contrast
• Hierarchy And Contrast: The Basis of Good Design
• Non-Designer's Design Book - Robin Williams
• Non-Designer's Web Book - Robin Williams