Web Design

Created 2011 March 22. Modified 2011 March 22.

Things

• Accessibility
• Copy Writing
• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• Information Architecture
• Programming
• Project Management
• Usability Design/Testing

User Needs Mapped to Web Design

Functional > Reliable > Usable > Pleasurable

See Emotional Interface Design by Aarron Walter.

Jean Williams, a friend of mine of my Mom's, said "I look for and try to get beautiful or functional things; if something is beautiful and functional then it's something special" – by "said" I mean paraphrased to the point of near complete reconstruction from a distant memory after asking about the beautiful stuff in her house.

Layers of Web Design

The way I see it:

Behaviour > Data > Structure > Presentation (> Behaviour > Data ... and so on)

Get Page > Data/Content > HTML > CSS (> JavaScript Interactions > Data/Content > HTML > CSS)

Link Dump

• Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users (Aarron Walter 2010 April thinkvitamin.com)
• I don't care about Responsive Web Design (Andy Clarke 2011 February stuffandnonsense.co.uk)
• Sea change (Jeremy Keith 2011 February adactio.com)
• The new layers of web development (Jeff Croft 2007 jeffcroft.com)