COAP:COAP-3150 - week 1
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Part I
Course presentation
- See also course syllabus on WorldClassroom
User-Centered (web) design
- Human-computer interaction
- Ergonomics
- UI vs UX
- Design process
Elements of web design
- Review of examples of good/bad user design
- Criteria discussion
Readings
- See Further readings
Part II
Elements of web design
Anatomy of a web page
- Page header - area at the top of the page usually between 100 - 150 pixels high
- Main navigation - horizontal row of links of important sections (8 max)
- Secondary navigation - under main navigation or on side menu
- Page title - should be within H1 tag, title by which page will be indexed and bookmarked
- Breadcrumb trails - links to help user locate themselves e.g. Home > Resources > Web design > Images
- Hero image - attention grabbing focus usually on homepage
- Content width, columns and grids
- page width - 960 pixels, 1024 pixels
- page height or fold - e.g. 600 pixels for 1024 x 768 screens
- page alignment - alignment on screen
- Footer - links to terms & conditions, site map, contact page, etc.
Links
- Elements of Design Quick Reference Sheet
- Visual Design Basics
- The Elements and Principles of Design applied to Web Design
- Anatomy Of A Perfect Landing Page
- Anatomy of a web page
Photoshop basics
Graphic and visual design principles Graphic formats for the web (open, save, save as, import images) Photoshop and/or illustrator basics (environment set up, transform, shapes, basic colour tools
NOTE: GIMP, an open source photo editing software may also be used for all exercises and assignments presented. In this course we will be using Photoshop CS3.
- open, save, save as,
- import images
- resolution sizes
- environment set up
- palettes
- positioning
- customizing the desktop
- shapes
- basic colour tools
- transform
- layers and transparency
