COAP:COAP-3150 - week 2

COAP 3150

COAP:COAP-3150

COAP:COAP-3150 - week 1

COAP:COAP-3150 - week 2

COAP:COAP-3150 - week 3

COAP:COAP-3150 - week 4

COAP:COAP-3150 - week 5

COAP:COAP-3150 - week 6

Design processes and models

Typography

Web design principles

Part I

Usable web design principles

Principles

Some links that list and describe design principles for usable and effective web pages.

• 9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design
• The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines
• Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
• 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

See also Usability, User-centered design, User experience and user experience design

Colour theory (RGB, HSB, hexidecimal)

Color palette generators

• Kuler
• Paletton colorscheme designer
• Colors on the web wizard
• CSSdrive - generate a palette from an image

See also Colors on the web - a site "dedicated to color theory and the use of colors in web design"

Part II

Design processes and models

• We will be using a combination of the Model of Pervasive Usability and this Step-by-step Usability Guide from Usability.gov. See Design processes and models for other models used in web-design processes.

Conducting a requirements analysis

A thorough requirements analysis is used for

• targeting public and defining stakeholders
• determining objectives
• determining client needs using a task analysis
• defining types of interactions - what will users do on site and how
• analyzing user needs - who, what, when, how, why - Read User Needs analysis
• defining success