Designing a website

It seems from this presentation that we will soon be starting our final project. Yay! I'm truly looking forward to this. I've been piecemealing (is that a word?) my knowledge of web design for so many years now, that to create a site from start to finish in the proper way (comps and all) is very exciting for me.

So this presentation touches upon stuff I've recently talked about here, such as designing for your intended audience. Very important and something I'm always aware of because of my line of work. I also always design a site on paper first so I can visualize what I'm planning to design.

The slide on website structure and establishing a flow chart reminded me of a presentation I recently attended at work about using sticky notes to organize your thoughts and navigation on a website. Really cool if you want to check it out.

Developing a storyboard is not something I have a ton of experience with so I am looking forward to learning how to integrate that process into web design. I also liked learning about page content hierarchy: things like subtitles being in a different color, the average readable font size and consistent placement of images. These are all things I've thought about, but not always included in my designs.

This presentation and everything else I've read/viewed this week have instilled in me some great principles of usability that I will definitely always use in my future designs. I'm really glad to have learned about them. Now I'm excited to apply them to our class projects and any future personal projects I do!