ISL WK 1: 2 Web Design Articals
Still not entirely sure what the teacher wanted, but here are 2 interesting and helpful articles I found.
Ten Commandments of Web Design
Now, the article wasn't written all that well in my opinion, but the commandments are good. These are all things we need to keep in mind when designing or building a site. Some are obvious, "Thou shalt not clutter", and some aren't so apparent, "Thou shalt not name your Web 2.0 company with an unnecessary surplus or dearth of vowels." I think all these commandments are worth listening to.
A Design Process Revealed
(This is an article he had us read in the last class. If you haven't read this yet you should.)
A Design Process Revealed
(This is an article he had us read in the last class. If you haven't read this yet you should.)
This was a very interesting article, and one that we should have read in the first class. I would have liked to have know some of these things a bit earlier in my design career. Although I have learned most of these steps in previous classes, some of them are new to me. I have been introduced to Competitive Analysis before, but it was never really stressed as being a part of the design process before. I have never even heard of the Typography or Imagery steps before. They are both very interesting ideas for steps, and one's that I plan to try out for myself. His Composition stage is a bit different though. He is either combining the rough and color comp stage, or he just skipped over the rough completely. I really do like his idea about focusing on detail on the top first and then working your way down. I usually just do that by section. All in all I found this to be a very informative article about the design process.
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Comments
I feel that even though we must look at trends wtth the big boys we need to look at small indepenadent work that is thriving, I am sorry no wai tno i am not, but i want to follow what is comming up not what is already established. Its a good thing that these guys are to express there opionion but i am not oved by surveys like these. i pay attention more to my general audiience for the project i am working on. Agian great article but i thought it was a little biased.
JHG
For your second article, I think why we kinda overlook the whole stepped process of design in the first place is because we're not designing a whole 30+ page website with a backend database for some major company willing to pay the big bucks.
Right now we're small time, gradually building our way up to the big boy pants and these people that push the whole "process" well, haven't failed yet. I think though the whole point is, to have a logical look at what you're really doing when you design and however you may do your "process" to keep it consistent and to constantly evolve and change with our every rapidly growing culture and trends.
On the 10 commandments there were some that I knew and some that I have learned here, but it was cool to read some that were new to me. Great article. With the other article, it contained a lot of information that we learn at this school so it is nice to know that we are on the right track.