This is an article that might help while designing your sites. It will help you keep some very important concepts about how the various parts of the page fit together to form a whole.
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/the-law-of-similarity-gestalt-principles-1
News Article Part 2
Take the lowfi wireframes created and part 1 and given the critiques/evaluations from class create a prototype of your single page web site.
1. Choose a news article from a website of your choice. You will need the text from the article and at least one image. You can either use the image that is with your source article or alternative images of your choice.
2. While adhering to the style of your source site, redesign the news article’s layout to present it in an interesting and engaging way.
3. You must include any social media and related article links, as well as the total number of ads present on the original page. Though you can redesign the page content to change there positioning and relation to your main article content.
Due Next Week: Create 5 Low-Fi Wireframes for your article.
http://www.creativebloq.com/wireframes/how-design-low-fi-wireframe-91516934
http://www.awwwards.com/on-the-future-of-web-design-tools.html?ref=webdesignernews.com
Dirty Markup – Tidy up your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Code
Sadly, now that Steve Jobs is gone, there is no single, omnipotent critic capable of unilaterally determining how good or bad a design is. Of course, some people (i.e., design faculty, Pritzker Prize winners) are more informed or knowledgeable than others, but design is a complex endeavor, resistant to simple metrics or measures. Therefore, in design education, instructors rely heavily on a subjective form of review known as âcritique.â There are many ways to critique and be critiqued, and learning how to give and receive feedback is an essential skill that extends beyond design education. Here, a few thoughts for students and their criticsâand critics and the critiqued at large.
This is an article from 2009. While the article itself refers to these as UI (User Interface) design patterns most of them are more related to UX (User Experience) Design.
Design patterns were first described in the 1960s by Christopher Alexander, an architect who noticed that many things in our lives happen according to patterns. He adapted his observations to his work and published many findings on the topic. Since then, design patterns have found their place in many areas of our lives, and can be found in the design and development of user interfaces as well.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/10-ui-design-patterns-you-should-be-paying-attention-to/
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