week 7 : 22 february
Design

Tonight's Schedule

• Guest Presentation: Glenn Fleishman
  New Publishing Technologies - Implications for Audience and Content
  
  
• Discussion Leaders
  
  
• Book Review Due - in-class discussion moved to next week
  
  
• Card Sort
  
  
• 2nd Week for Collaborative Game-Film Collaboration with China

Notes

• Powerpoint Slides -- a PDF handout, all links are either on this page or the online resources page
  
  
• IT Conversations: New Ideas Through Your Headphones

Assignments

• Design Analysis Due 12 March
• Readings and Questions (please respond to questions and post to personal blog by 6pm on Monday 28 Feb)
  • Questions: Find both good and bad examples of digital communication aesthetics, based on this author's perspective and prior readings on Gestalt theory. I will compile a list and publish it for Christine to use; the analytical skills you are developing should help with the course Design Analysis.
  • Readings (non-linked readings are in eReserve):
    1. Aesthetic Experience and the Importance of Visual Composition in Information Design ; Give Customers Short Paths To What They Want, a Gartner Report (eReserve)
       
       
    2. Discussion Group (pianoman, chiafang, rrundus):
       A Study of Web Usability for Older Adults Seeking Online Health Resources, Shirley Ann Becker; The Race of the Web Sites: 2004, K.E. Gill, ACM Interactions, Nov-Dec 2004.
    
    
    
• Related Resources
  • Chapter 9, Type and Colour; Web Design on a Shoestring
  • Turning the Tables Using CSS and Battling the Browser Wars
  • Primetime Hypermedia
  • Also see resources page