Mood Boards

Here’s the link I showed today in class with examples of mood boards:

http://weblog.404creative.com/2007/02/14/website-mood-boards-a-successful-precursor-to-visual-prototyping/

1/27/11 Class Process and Site Mapping

Journal Entries

There was a wide variety of examples for the journal entries, and here are some examples of that were shown durning class.

Some chose this website because it was slow moving and very confusing, and was seen as not a good example of usability.

http://www.metrotransit.com

This website is clearly a horrible example of usability!! It is at art.yale.edu

The Menards website is horrible! It is the complete opposite of user friendly because it is extremely hard to navigate through.

http://www.menards.com

PROCESS

In class the first topic of discussion was the process a person should go through in order to have a good out come come for his or her project. We began by watching some videos of the process that taught the class first to not hyper focus on the hompage and second most clients are crazy but the designer still has to please them.

The process a person should go through is:

Define

• Audience is the main objective
• It should have content, deadlines
• Than comes the creative brief
• Than the overall concept
  DESIGNERS HAVE TO REMIND CLINETS OF THE DEFINING STEP QUITE OFTEN

Design

• Themes
• concept
• colors

Develop

Deliver

SITE MAPPING

Site mapping was the second topic of discussion that was discussed.  In the end a person’s site map should look something like this

Site-map

ASSIGNMENT IS

The final three wireframe on foam core board

The final three personas on foam core board