Design
GD3990A fall 2014 · GW Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
Instructor: David Ramos (davidramos@email.gwu.edu)
Resources about what you make, why, and for whom.
Interaction and user experience
- A Dao of Web Design
- Userium usability checklist
- Mobile screen Sizes
- Why not to use “click here” text
- 52 Weeks of UX
Communicating and testing design
- UX sketching
- Close Photoshop and Grab a Pencil: The Lost Art of Thumbnail Sketches
- Wireframes (mostly, a collection of tools)
- Interactive Sketching Notation
- Wireframes > sketch resources
- EightShapes Unify
- Visual vocabulary for IA and IxD
- PDF templates
- The Skeptic’s Guide to Low-Fi Prototyping
- AIGA Design for Democracy project: Ballot and polling place design guidelines (produced on behalf of US Election Assistance Commission)
Process and starting projects
- Following a Web Design Process (big picture view, aimed at large client projects)
- Taking the Guesswork Out of Design
- Design research and process (created for a media/journalism NGO)
- Design Process in the Responsive Age
- Style tiles
- Photoshop for the web
- InDesign for the web (I’d recommend InDesign for comps over Photoshop)
- HTML/CSS code as part of design process (closer to how I work)
- Designing the Boston Globe’s new responsive site
Web typography
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
- On Web Typography
- Google Webfonts that Don’t Suck
- TypeTester (tool to compare screen type)
- Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources
- A Way Back: font stacks in great depth
Accessibility
- Dive into Accessibility
- WebAIM (articles, accessibility checkers, simulators)
UI/UX standards
- Apple iOS Human Interface Guidelines (the gold standard in UI guidelines)
- Types of views natively provided by iOS
- Microsoft Windows mobile (a more typographic, assertively digital approach)
- Summary of touch target sizes