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week 3 : 25 january
audience issues
Tonight's Schedule
- Announcements : next week's schedule, reminder about book review - please
let me know
if you have not yet picked a book
- Recommended book:
I received this book for review at the end of December.
Had I received it earlier, I would have made it a required (reference) text.
Universal Principles of Design
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler
Rockport Publishers, 2003
- Discussion Leaders Presentation
- Food Break
- Gill: Audience Issues:
Development Cycle (pdf, from Universal Principles of Design) ;
Exemplary Requirements Document (pdf, BBC redesign, more detail
that required of this quarter's teams) ;
Kelly Goto Resources
(Web ReDesign, Workflows that Work) ;
Requirements Docs: From a GaTech Class and
From Digital (Compaq) used in a class
- Team time
- Game-Film Team - new pdf document uploaded
- Mailing Lists (not hyperlinked to avoid spam):
Note: you do NOT have to use a UW address and you can set up more
than one address to send or receive mail.
- Vision/Objective
- Competition - what is a competitive site? (discuss, agree on
parameters)
- Develop a list of competitive sites if you have not already done so
- Explore sites, looking at content - colors - graphic design.
- Audience : general description - ID areas where you might want more
information - where might you find it - what types of stories (narratives)
might appeal to your target audience
- Technical Requirements : beging thinking about back end technologies
as well as technologies available to your audience
- Web-based Project Management (information - not required)
Why? Microsoft Project is Windows-only
Notes
Assignments
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Readings and Questions (please respond to questions and post to personal blog by 6pm
on Monday 31 Jan)
- Readings (non-linked readings are in eReserve):
- Everyone:
Objective: Provide familiarization with Internet technologies and standards
Question: How do standards impact our ability as communicators to reach our target audiences? When (why) might we chose to deliver information that does not conform with standards?
"Internet Standards, Protocols and Languages," Electronic Commerce, 2nd edition. Focus on standards, languages (skim protocols). eReserve.
Objective: lesson for teams. How might your team implement processes to
avoid this pitfall?
Group Think
- Discussion Group (renatauw, roemka, bbc2):
Objective: introduce multi-disciplinary thought and research about the design process
Notes on Design Practice: Stories and Prototypes as Catalysts for Communication, Thomas Erickson,
User Experience Architect's Office,
Apple Computer, Inc.
Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design, Nathan Shedroff
- Related Resources
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