1.) Read and respond to Jeffrey Zeldman’s article Understanding Web Design. published on A List Apart in 2007. Zeldman states “We get better design when we understand our medium.” and describes web design of being like digital architecture. He also states that similar to how real estate deals is much more focused on than architecture, web design is very business …
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PR1: Process Assignment
Response 1: After rambling on Christopher Wren and building foundations it goes into how a website’s design can be affected by the intended screen resolution that its going to be viewed on. Response 2: Its no surprise that mobile browsing surpassed desktop browsing given that every one and their mother has a smartphone. Its another …
BP9: Color and Darkness
From what I can tell from these two articles, there is a clash between monotone and multicolor design formats. For me, I will always prefer monotone over multicolor because it gives the design a sense of uniformity. But for the sake of this blog post, I’d say my favorite multicolor design from these two blog …
BP8: What Makes a Good Designer
Okay, from what I could gather, the message this article is trying to convey is that training and expertise are an obvious necessity, but without knowledge and experience, it all means diddly squat. A successful designer must also be flexible and not tethered to one specialization. One particular skill that can be handy is general …
BP7: How to Design Your Website for Better User Experience
Unique value proposition in my view is the added total amount of reward or stimuli the user gets the longer they stay on a website. Above the fold is the upper half of the front page of a newspaper or tabloid where an important news story or photograph is often located. The most common form of …
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BP6: 90’s inspired web design
Now this brings back memories for me. I remember using AOL on both windows 95 & XP machines back in the early 2000s and hearing the dial up sound. Neocities has to have my favorite sites because it truly encapsulates everyone that made up 90’s web design. This trend may bring a lot of nostalgia …
BP5: The Web Awards
Emily Weiss, the founder of a skincare company called Glossier, won the Webby Entrepreneur of the Year award. The fact that it started as a simple blog that grew into a $1.2 billion dollar corporation amazes me. That being said, with a white Glossier’s website looks a bit bland for my taste with its simple …
BP3 Stop Saying Technology is Causing Social Isolation.
Seeing as how Smartphones are instruments of communication and the popularity of social media, I fail to see how technology is causing social isolation. If anything, its increasing social activity, just in a different. That being said, the internet must be treated like the Wild West, where anything can happen, especially with how easy it …
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BP2: Is the Internet Making us Crazy?
This article tells us how easy it can be to get lost in the online world and become disconnected and out of touch with the real world (I have a problem with that myself on occasion.) by bringing up and extreme scenario featuring JasonRussell and his downward spiral. The fact that we’re connected to our …
Bp1: A Dao of Web Design
After rambling on about how the printed press and the web are like parent and child, the article goes on to describe the evolution of web design since the early 1990s aswell as how flexible one should be and not fixed on one outlook. Designing web pages to be flexible is also making them more …
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