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DUE DATE FOR CLIENT PROJECT

Just a reminder, the new due date for the client project is Thursday April 3rd. The 3 class periods we have before the due date (and after spring break) will be devoted to in-class lab time. During labs, I will continue meeting with each team and assisting with strategy and technical questions.
This schedule is sufficient […]


Design Styles, Web Roles and How to Break the Box

Reading some articles this weekend, I came across some interesting articles.
LAYOUT CONVENTIONS
The first article Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions is an interesting article about poor layout design. Not sure I agree completely, but it’s good food for thought. As you are designing your interfaces, I suggest you reread my post about web 2.0 design […]


Homework for Tuesday

Read Chapters 11-14 in the “Learning Web Design”


Quiz … Due on Tuesday

Following is the take home quiz which is due next Tuesday February 12th at the start of class. As I mentioned before, I will not be in class tomorrow so it will be an open lab for those of you who wish to work on this and/or your second assignment. Good luck!

What is HTML? What […]


Project 1 Final Versions

Here are the project 1 redesigns. We will critique these tomorrow in class. Please reply to this post with your 3 favorites. As you are looking at the designs, ask yourself what specifically what stands out (in a positive or negative way)? Which designs capture your attention? How do they capture your attention?, etc. […]


Eastbay Interface for Redesigning

I apologize. I had this image in a not-so-easy to find spot on the blog (bad information architecture, right? And thanks for pointing that out Noel). Click on the image for a larger version of the interface that you can print. It’s a little fuzzy, but it will work for our purposes.