GDES-220 fall 2023 / David Ramos, American University Design
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Information architecture / Typography
October 13
In class
- Information architecture
- Navigation
- Type hierarchy
Projects
- Show refined sketches and site map for Story, and have refined your color and type choices from last week. You can present colors and type using style tiles, if you like.
Reading
- Don’t Make Me Think: ch. 6 (navigation)
- Mark Boulton, Visual Design is Not a Thing
- How to crit
- New York Times, Stickers, Highlighters and Other Ways States Hope to Save Mail Votes: design changes to help voters return ballots correctly