COAP:COAP-3150 - week 3
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Design specifications
- Analyzing needs analysis results
- Card sorting
- generative— gathering user input on the organization and labeling of content
- evaluative-determining whether people can correctly find things in an organizational structure we’ve created[1]
- open (no categories) vs closed (predefined categories) [2]
- In class activity - find and sort information on your site
- Designing information
- Sitemap planning - Information architecture
- Designing navigation
- Site and file structure
Tools for site planning
- Web applications (on line)
Readings
- Planning And Implementing Website Navigation - Smashing Magazine
- Card Sorting: How Many Users to Test (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
- Information architecture
- References
- ↑ Comparing User Research Methods for Information Architecture :: UXmatters
- ↑ Card sorting: a definitive guide - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
Layouts and grids
Grid systems and used to organize layouts in print and web pages. Grids are made of horizontal baseline grids and separations and vertical columns and spacing between columns and margins.
Tools
- 960 grid system - grid templates for Photoshop (among others) to place as layers.
- Modular grid app - CS5 plugin or web application and option to export result
- Fluid baseline grid - for designing fluid CSS-based grids
- LAYOUT & STYLEGUIDE TEMPLATES: YOUR NEW BFFs - Photoshop layout templates
- GuideGuide - panel plugin for Photoshop CS4+
- Further reading
- Grid design basics: Grids for Web page layouts - Dev.Opera
- Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop
- Designing for the Web: Templates and Grid Systems: Design Festival -
- Assignment – building site information architecture