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Final Review

November 17, 2014 at 1:05 pm · Filed under classnotesfall14, Review Topic

For your final review choose a website that could be considered competition for your fusion restaurant. Discuss the website’s use of the following three elements: layout, color, texture and navigation. Then critique their effectiveness at guiding the user through the content. Lastly, compare this site to your final project’s design, and suggest how your website will stand out.

Revisit the readings to formulate your argument.

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Review 3

November 3, 2014 at 5:13 pm · Filed under classnotesfall14, Review Topic

Read: Don’t Make Me Think: Pages 50-93, then choose two of the following:

Explore each of your choices, then describe and compare the two sites use of Balance, Unity, Emphasis, and Layout. How do they use these principles and implement Krug’s five important “things” to make sure users see and understand the site? Is one site more effective than the other at drawing your attention, and why?

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Review #2

September 29, 2014 at 2:19 pm · Filed under classnotesfall14, Review Topic

Before writing the review you should read or have already read:

Monthly Review: Choose a single page website that has been highlighted on http://onepagelove.com/. Describe and analyze the site’s use of color and texture. Further, as this is a single page site how does user to navigate from one section of content to another? Does the user have to scroll left to right, top to bottom, all over or is navigation provided that takes the user to the content? What design elements make the site easy to scan, read and understand content. Lastly, make an argument for whether this site’s design is well or poorly done.

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