“Good and Bad Assignment"

Good Design

Design features:

Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make a website successful.

Background doesn't interfere with the type. Type isn't in all bold, italics, underlined. Make sure type isn't to big.





Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make a website successful.
Don't use mystery meat navigation, because having to have the mouse hoover can and will get confusing.
Opening your web page in a new window makes for confusing because you can't navigate backwards with arrow keys.
Make sure navigation is consistent throughout.




Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make a website successful.

Link color should be consistent with the pages they are located on. Links should be obviously appear to be links and underline. The destination of the link should be clear and make sure the links page should still be active.





Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, vector and raster, that make a website successful.









General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make a website successful.









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Summarize the qualities that make a site miss the boat.
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Design features:

Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make a website unsuccessful.







Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make a website unsuccessful.







Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make a website unsuccessful.







Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, vector and raster, that make a website unsuccessful.









General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make a website unsuccessful.







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Good and Bad Assignment” blog entry. Find a poorly designed portfolio site in your field: If you are an Interior Designer, find an Interior Design portfolio site in need of help. Provide the URL to your example, and hotlink it. Support your choices with specific features of the site. Summarize the qualities that make this site unsuccessful. Consider and discuss all relevant design choices: value, color scheme, saturation, hue, font, placement, alignment, extension, texture, balance, rhythm, unity, variety, contrast. Be brutal.

URL of a Poorly Designed Site:

Design features:

Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make this site unsuccessful.







Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make this site unsuccessful.







Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make this site unsuccessful.







Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, both vector and raster, which make this site unsuccessful.









General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make this site unsuccessful.



Describe the purpose of this site in the notes. (Include whether it was easy to determine the purpose – why or why not?)
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Good and Bad Assignment” blog entry. Find a well designed portfolio site in your field. Provide the URL to your example here, and hotlink it. Support your choices with specific features of the site. Summarize the qualities that make this site successful. Consider and discuss all relevant design choices: value, color scheme, saturation, hue, font, placement, alignment, extension, texture, balance, rhythm, unity, variety, contrast.

URL of site #1:

Design features:

Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make this site successful.







Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make this site successful.







Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make this site successful.







Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, vector and raster, which make this site successful.









General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make this site successful.



Describe the purpose of this site in the notes. (Include whether it was easy to determine the purpose – why or why not?)
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Good and Bad Assignment” blog entry. Find one more well designed portfolio site in your field. Examples of Well Designed Sites Provide the URL to your example here, and hotlink it. Support your choices with specific features of the site. Summarize the qualities that make this site successful. Consider and discuss all relevant design choices: value, color scheme, saturation, hue, font, placement, alignment, extension, texture, balance, rhythm, unity, variety, contrast.

URL of site #2:

Design features:

Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make this site successful.







Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make this site successful.







Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make this site successful.







Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, vector and raster, which make this site successful.









General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make this site successful.



　



Describe the purpose of this site in the notes. (Include whether it was easy to determine the purpose – why or why not?)
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Examples of a Well Designed Site #2

Examples of a Well Designed Site #1

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Example of a Poorly Designed Site

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