IA? UX? UI? Like all fields, web design has its own acronyms and terminology that evolves and changes over time. This is a brief primer of some of the more commonly used (and confused) terms.
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Interaction Design Foundation (IDF) is a site with a wealth of web design related resources across multiple topics (e.g. usability, UX, UI, etc). https://www.interaction-design.org/ Online encyclopedia/book collection of readings: IDF’s Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction Topics include: IDF: Web Design IDF: User Centered Design IDF: Usability IDF: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) IDF: Information Architecture (IA) IDF: Information Visualization
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By Jakob Nielsen. Includes an intro with Jakob Nielsen’s web usability principles based upon years of research. The 50 sites are from categories such as Fortune 500 Sites, High-Traffic Sites, and E-Commerce Sites. Although only the homepage of each site is analyzed, the critiques can be applied to overall website design. Buy on Amazon.
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The Essentials To Starting a Design Project A project brief is a practical and useful tool used as a first step in summarizing creative projects. It is used as foundational framework for developing strategic creative solutions to real-world project challenges. A Design brief is a written document for a design project developed by a person
Code a simple HTML website from scratch One of the best ways to learn about web design is to get your hands dirty and code a simple website from scratch. Having ones own domain and web site enables designers to learn through practice, by going through the full development process from beginning to end, from setting
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A short intro to the core fundamentals of HTML as a markup language HTML is relatively easy to learn and use. As a markup “language” it has a small, limited number of elements (tags) that are commonly used by web designers and developers. HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages.– Wikipedia The Anatomy
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A Quick Coding Exercise Try to solve the challenge below by doing the following: in the first code example below, click on the “edit in codepen” button in the upper right, then add the appropriate HTML tags to the source text so that it renders the same as the second code example below. Code Example
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The Basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript The predominant underlying markup technology behind the web is HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). Together with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript, HTML web sites can be powerful, flexible, usable, accessible, and beautiful.
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U.S. Web Design Standards web site with resources related to the U.S. Standards design system that allows federal agencies to quickly prototype and deploy digital products using a baseline of design patterns.
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