COAP:COAP-2100/Web design
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Introduction
Items to be presented and discussed in class ...
Reading
Read each of these texts. total reading should be less than an hour. I am not requiring recall of details, but ought to be able to locate information in these texts ....
- Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability (Jakob Nielsen)
- The Elements of User Experience (the complicated picture) by Jess James Garet
- Interface Design (part of Lynch and Norton's Web Style Guide)
- Usability testing on 10 cents a day by Steve Krug
- Top 10 best designed web sites by Scratch (this is just one of many such lists, look at 1-2 examples)
- The 5 Second Rule: Critiquing the Best Websites of 2009 – Part 1 (demonstrates a method to judge initial user experience/usability)
Prototyping and wireframing (tested in exam !)
- Paper Prototyping by Shwan Medero, A List Apart, 2007.
- Website wireframe (Wikipedia)