AIM Class9
IAM Project 2 due
Class Goals
- Discuss design processes
- Walk through a sample design process with CSS
Contents
Advanced Design
Interaction Design
Review how designing an interactive piece differs from designing a static or expositional piece
Although there are many websites online, very few of them are actually interactive. Interactivity is not simply allowing a person to click on something (in fact, in some poorly designed cases this results in just "extra effort").
Levels of interaction
- Access to content
- Chooosing path through content
- Environmental changes
CSS Design
Advanced conceptual design using XHTML and CSS
Brainstorm cultural and critical theory topics on which to base a "Zen Garden" design.
Homework
AIM Assignment 7 : Create a design using the CSS Zen Garden template
Reading
ZEN: pages 200-273
IA:
pgs. 3-15 (Chpt.1)
-- IA definition, what it is, what it isn't
pgs. 23-35 (Chpt. 2: "Practicing IA in the Real World" and onward)
--users/content/context
--user needs and behaviors (thinking about systems for users who don't know what they're looking for)
CSS Links
CSS
- http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1
- http://csszengarden.com/
- http://www.cssplay.co.uk/
- http://thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/css/
- http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/talks/2003/commug/commug.html
- http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
- http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/default.asp
- http://glish.com/css/
- http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/
- http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/