COAP:COAP-3150 - week 2
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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
Typography - using type for the web
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 [1] - who, what, when, how, why - Read User Needs analysis
- defining success
- ↑ Usability.gov User Research Basics. Retrieved October 31, 2016 from https://www.usability.gov/what-and-why/user-research.html