Week 7 UI design is about presenting the user with the right tools to accomplish their goals. It’s about the connection with the user and the experience, the first impression and the lasting impression that either makes the website feel helpful and familiar or forgettable and annoying. Good UI designs should strive between ascetics and … Continue reading User Interface Visual Design Patterns

Week 6 User scenarios are they stories your personas act out, scenarios are basically thoughts and exercises in which you predict how certain types of users represented as your personas will interact with your website in a given situation, in order to complete a given goal. User scenarios let you understand what future users will … Continue reading User scenarios

Week 5 User Personas are artificial user represented as real users for us to reference through our creative process to inform and validate our design and experience. The persons are made through research, interviews and statistics. The personas are captured in a page description that include behaviour patterns, skills, gaols, attitudes along with fictional details … Continue reading User Personas

Week 4 Instructional design instructs your audience in how to do something or how it works through design. Static Instructional Design Medium Interactive Instructional Design Medium Instruction, by clicking buttons Conversation, back and forth dialog Manipulation, drag and drop elements Exploration, open, playful, game like Advantage of static graphics is that it’s all there and … Continue reading Instructional Design

Week 3 Design patterns and interactive design go beyond style and are more than visual repetition. They are similar and reusable solutions that have a working function often seen in the interface and software design. The side effect of responsive design is that a lot of sites look similar due to the rise of WordPress … Continue reading Design Patterns For Screen

Week 2 Process Map out the concepts and ideas using basic processes, pen and paper, sticky notes. Content Need to understand: What people are trying to doHow they may try to do itWhat gets in the way or helpsWhere they might be doing it Understand the motivation for and the context of a person’s behaviour … Continue reading Process + Content

Week 1 Interactive Design consists of various disciplines and design practices contribute to the make-up of interactive design. A lot of the fields consist the word “Cognitive” as it relates to how humans process information and how they perceive the world, interactive designers pay attention to as it assists them when designing. Design “Designing interactive … Continue reading Interactive Design