readings
Reading summaries are due noon Monday (on your personal blog) before Tuesday's class unless otherwise noted. If a reading has no associated URL, it is located in eReserve.
The readings are associated with the night that they will be
discussed.
- Week 2 - 16 Jan
- Week 3 - 23 Jan
- Week 4 - 30 Jan
- Week 5 - 6 Feb
- Week 6 - 13 Feb
- Week 7 - 20 Feb
- Week 8 - 27 Feb
- Everyone:
"The Publishing Team," Chapter 11. Content Critical: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through High-Quality Web Content by McGovern et al ; "Web Team Roles," Chapter 2. Real Web Project Management
by Shelford et al - Everyone:
Web ReDesign 2.0: Chapter 3, Define The Project
- Everyone:
Notes on Design Practice: Stories and Prototypes as Catalysts for Communication, Thomas Erickson [A version of this paper appeared in Scenario-Based Design: Envisioning Work and Technology in System Development. (ed. J. Carroll). New York: Wiley & Sons, 1995.]
Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design, Nathan Shedroff
- Group 1 also reads:
"Internet Standards, Protocols and Languages," Electronic Commerce, 2nd edition. Focus on standards, languages (skim protocols).- 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?
Week 4 -- Task Identification
- Everyone:
Gestalt Principles of Perception and Gestalt theory in visual screen design: a new look at an old subject
Two essays from Don Norman based on concepts from The Psychology of Everyday Things. Affordance, Convention and Design and Affordances and Design ; HCI Design
How do these HCI design principles relate to Gestalt Theory?
- Group 2 also reads:
The following words were published in 1999. Are they relevant to communicators today? Why/why not? What are the implications of this philosophy in how we communicate (create messages) with customers, employees, vendors, voters?- The 95 Theses - The Cluetrain Manifesto
- Internet Apocalypso, chapter 1 of The Cluetrain Manifesto
- The Hyperlinked Organization, chapter 5 of The Cluetrain Manifesto
Week 5 -- Information Architecture
- Everyone:
Web ReDesign 2.0: Chapter 4, Develop Site Structure - Everyone:
Blueprints for the Web: Organization for the Masses
- Group 3 also reads:
Cognitive Psychology & IA: From Theory to Practice,
Usability experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus,
Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization
What are the threads that unite these readings? Are there best practices that can be devised from these?
- No reading - book reviews due this week!
Post to your blog a short blurb about what you are reading - title, author, why you picked the book and some key points/arguments.
- Everyone:
Web ReDesign 2.0: Chapter 5, Design Visual Interface - Everyone:
Aesthetic Experience and the Importance of Visual Composition in Information Design ; Web 2.0: Mistaking the Forest for the Trees? ; Give Customers Short Paths To What They Want, a Gartner Report (eReserve)
- Group 4 also reads:
- Web Page Layout: A Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site Navigation Menus.
Journal of Digital Information, Volume 4 Issue 1, Article No. 153, 2003-04-28 - Evolution of web site design patterns. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Volume 23 , Issue 4 (October 2005). eReserve
- Web Page Layout: A Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site Navigation Menus.
Week 8 -- Applicable Technologies
- Everyone:
Web Redesign, Chapter 6, Phase 4 : Production and QA (eReserve)