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LIS 385T.6 Spring 2001

designs
webby
e journal
links

 

Diagram a Website
A branching diagram shows each page on a site and how it's related to the other pages on the site. A page architecture maps out the kinds of information on each page, or each type of page, in the Web site. (DiNucci, 1998).

Website Critique
Evaluate the following Web sites using the five principles of design by Donald Norman. Explain how these sites measure up to or fail from a user-centered design perspective.

Redesign your Website
Form without function makes an empty shell. Many of you have been diligently testing various web technologies while redesigning, revising and updating your homework site in the last four weeks, it's now time to pull everything together. Run through this checklist below to make sure your homework site contains all the required content, functionalities, and interface elements.

Visual Confections
Create a site on Edward Tufte's "Visual Confections: Juxtapositions from The Ocean of the Streams of Story" for a class presentation.

Three Monkeys
Create a Web team to work on the redesign of the World Lecture Hall site. Design your own team's site to host all your team work assignments and an activity log that records each of the team member's time and brief description of tasks taken.
The design of the site should reflect the collective taste and esthetics of what your team would want to project to your client.

World Lecture Hall
Create a site for The University of Texas at Austin's World Lecture Hall site for presentation and possible implementation.