Web Site Design Is Communication Design

Author : Thea van der Geest
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027232024

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Web Site Design is Communication Design by Thea van der Geest Pdf

Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of the web site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and Microsoft. It offers a well-researched, reflective and thorough analysis of the activities undertaken, in combination with practical, real-life experiences of web site designers and producers. It pays attention to the often complicated organizational context that web designers and producers have to work in, while they serve both bosses and target groups to their best intents. The importance of careful evaluation is stressed throughout the book and the in concluding checklists, which guide the practitioner through the design process, from initial idea through site maintenance and re-design.

Author : Thea M. van der Geest
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298300

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Web Site Design is Communication Design by Thea M. van der Geest Pdf

Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of web-site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and Microsoft. It offers a well-researched, reflective and thorough analysis of the activities undertaken, in combination with practical, real-life experiences of web-site designers and producers. It pays attention to the often complicated organizational context that web designers and producers have to work in, while they serve both bosses and target groups to their best intents. The importance of careful evaluation is stressed throughout the book and in the concluding checklists, which guide the practitioner through the design process, from initial idea through site maintenance and re-design.

Author : Dan M. Brown
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780131385412

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Communicating Design by Dan M. Brown Pdf

Successful web design teams depend on clear communication between developers and their clients—and among members of the development team. Wireframes, site maps, flow charts, and other design diagrams establish a common language so designers and project teams can capture ideas, track progress, and keep their stakeholders informed. In this all new edition of Communicating Design, author and information architect Dan Brown defines and describes each deliverable, then offers practical advice for creating the documents and using them in the context of teamwork and presentations, independent of methodology. Whatever processes, tools, or approaches you use, this book will help you improve the creation and presentation of your wireframes, site maps, flow charts, and other deliverables. The book now features: An improved structure comprising two main sections: Design Diagrams and Design Deliverables. The first focuses on the nuts and bolts of design documentation and the second explains how to pull it all together. New deliverable: design briefs, as well as updated advice on wireframes, flow charts, and concept models. More illustrations, to help designers understand the subtle variations and approaches to creating design diagrams. Reader exercises, for those lonely nights when all you really want to do is practice creating wireframes, or for use in workshops and classes. Contributions from industry leaders: Tamara Adlin, Stephen Anderson, Dana Chisnell, Nathan Curtis, Chris Fahey, James Melzer, Steve Mulder, Donna Spencer, and Russ Unger. “As an educator, I have looked to Communicating Design both as a formal textbook and an informal guide for its design systems that ultimately make our ideas possible and the complex clear.” —Liz Danzico, from the Foreword

Author : Edward Barrett,Deborah A. Levinson,Suzana Lisanti
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262025000

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The MIT Guide to Teaching Web Site Design by Edward Barrett,Deborah A. Levinson,Suzana Lisanti Pdf

The book covers all aspects of teaching Web design, from optimal class size and classroom configuration to peer review of completed projects. It uses many examples from the Web design course taught by the authors at MIT.

Author : Bill Kovarik
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015054375210

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Web Design for the Mass Media by Bill Kovarik Pdf

This exciting workbook is the only resource available that provides those in mass communication fields both a technical and a contextual introduction to Web design. With an abundance of real-world examples and a clear, easy-to-follow style, this workbook provides hands-on training that is invaluable to both students preparing to enter the media profession and current practitioners. Web Design for the Mass Media uniquely combines instruction in Web design with information about how the Web is used by the media. It not only gives students the tools they need to create and maintain effective, attractive Web pages but also discusses the ethical and public service aspects of media Web use, and shows how those in the media utilize the Web to help students prepare for their future careers.

Author : Daniel M. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic data processing documentation
ISBN : 0131385399

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Communicating Design by Daniel M. Brown Pdf

Author : Kim Golombisky,Rebecca Hagen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351668767

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White Space Is Not Your Enemy by Kim Golombisky,Rebecca Hagen Pdf

White Space Is Not Your Enemy is a practical graphic design and layout guide that introduces concepts and practices necessary for producing effective visual communication across a variety of formats—from web to print. Sections on Gestalt theory, color theory, and WET layout are expanded to offer more in-depth content on those topics. This new edition features new covering current trends in web design—Mobile-first, UI/UX design, and web typography—and how they affect a designer’s approach to a project. The entire book will receive an update using new examples and images that show a more diverse set of graphics that go beyond print and web and focus on tablet, mobile and advertising designs.

Author : Megan Sapnar Ankerson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781479892907

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Dot-Com Design by Megan Sapnar Ankerson Pdf

From dial-up to wi-fi, an engaging cultural history of the commercial web industry In the 1990s, the World Wide Web helped transform the Internet from the domain of computer scientists to a playground for mass audiences. As URLs leapt off computer screens and onto cereal boxes, billboards, and film trailers, the web changed the way many Americans experienced media, socialized, and interacted with brands. Businesses rushed online to set up corporate "home pages" and as a result, a new cultural industry was born: web design. For today's internet users who are more familiar sharing social media posts than collecting hotlists of cool sites, the early web may seem primitive, clunky, and graphically inferior. After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, this pre-crash era was dubbed "Web 1.0," a retronym meant to distinguish the early web from the social, user-centered, and participatory values that were embodied in the internet industry's resurgence as "Web 2.0" in the 21st century. Tracking shifts in the rules of "good web design," Ankerson reimagines speculation and design as a series of contests and collaborations to conceive the boundaries of a new digitally networked future. What was it like to go online and "surf the Web" in the 1990s? How and why did the look and feel of the web change over time? How do new design paradigms like user-experience design (UX) gain traction? Bringing together media studies, internet studies, and design theory, Dot-com Design traces the shifts in, and struggles over, the web's production, aesthetics, and design to provide a comprehensive look at the evolution of the web industry and into the vast internet we browse today.

Author : Nuno Martins,Daniel Brandão,Daniel Raposo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783030496470

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Perspectives on Design and Digital Communication by Nuno Martins,Daniel Brandão,Daniel Raposo Pdf

This book shares new research findings and practical lessons learned that will foster advances in digital design, communication design, web, multimedia and motion design, graphic design and branding, and other related areas. It gathers the best papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Digital Design and Communication, DIGICOM 2019, held on November 15–16, 2019, in Barcelos, Portugal. The respective contributions highlight new theoretical perspectives and practical research directions in design and communication, aimed at promoting their use in a global, digital world. The book offers a timely guide and a source of inspiration for designers of all kinds (Graphic, Digital, Web, UI & UX Design and Social Media), for researchers, advertisers, artists, entrepreneurs, and brand or corporate communication managers, and for teachers and advanced students.

Author : Patrick J. Lynch,Sarah Horton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Web site development
ISBN : 9780300211658

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Web Style Guide by Patrick J. Lynch,Sarah Horton Pdf

A classic reference book on user interface design and graphic design for web sites, updated to reflect a rapidly changing market Consistently praised as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide has sold many thousands of copies and has been published around the world. This new revised edition confirms Web Style Guide as the go-to authority in a rapidly changing market. As web designers move from building sites from scratch to using content management and aggregation tools, the book's focus shifts away from code samples and toward best practices, especially those involving mobile experience, social media, and accessibility. An ideal reference for web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and covers all aspects of web design--from planning to production to maintenance. The guide also shows how these principles apply in web design projects whose primary concerns are information design, interface design, and efficient search and navigation.

Author : Jason Tham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000392302

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Design Thinking in Technical Communication by Jason Tham Pdf

This book explicates the relationships between design thinking, critical making, and socially responsive technical communication. It leverages the recent technology-powered DIY culture called "the Maker Movement" to identify how citizen innovation can inform cutting-edge social innovation that advocates for equitable change and progress on today’s "wicked" problems. After offering a succinct account of the origin and recent history of design thinking, along with its connections to the design paradigm in writing studies, the book analyzes maker culture and its influences on innovation and education through an ethnographic study of three academic makerspaces. It offers opportunities to cultivate a sense of critical changemaking in technical communication students and practitioners, showcasing examples of socially responsive innovation and expert interviews that urge a disciplinary attention to social justice advocacy and an embrace of the design-thinking principle of radical collaboration. The value of design thinking methodologies for teaching and practicing socially responsible technical communication are demonstrated as the author argues for a future in the field that sees its constituents as leaders in radical innovation to solve wicked social problems. This book is essential reading for instructors, students, and practitioners of technical communication, and can be used as a supplemental text for graduate and undergraduate courses in usability and user-centered design and research.

Author : Meredith Davis,Jamer Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350031838

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Visual Communication Design by Meredith Davis,Jamer Hunt Pdf

Where do design principles come from? Are they abstract "rules" established by professionals or do they have roots in human experience? And if we encounter these visual phenomena in our everyday lives, how do designers use them to attract our attention, orient our behavior, and create compelling and memorable communication that stands out among the thousands of messages we confront each day? Today's work in visual communication design shifts emphasis from simply designing objects to designing experiences; to crafting form that acknowledges cognitive and cultural influences on interpretation. In response, Meredith Davis and Jamer Hunt provide a new slant on design basics from the perspective of audiences and users. Chapters break down our interactions with communication as a sequence of meaningful episodes, each with related visual concepts that shape the interpretive experience. Explanatory illustrations and professional design examples support definitions of visual concepts and discussions of context. Work spans print, screen, and environmental applications from around the world. This introduction to visual communication design demystifies the foundational concepts that underpin professional design decisions and shape our experiences in a complex visual world.

Author : Kim Golombisky,Rebecca Hagen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781136080937

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White Space is Not Your Enemy by Kim Golombisky,Rebecca Hagen Pdf

Designing a brochure or web site without an art background? Step away from the computer and read this breezy introduction to visual communications first. Written for non-designers, White Space is Not Your Enemy is a practical graphic design and layout text introducing the concepts and practices necessary for producing effective visual communications across a variety of formats, from print to Web. This beautifully illustrated, full-color book covers the basics to help you develop your eye and produce attractive work. Topics include: * The basics of effective design that communicates its intended message * Pre-design planning * 13 Layout Sins to avoid * Basic typography * Working with color * Storyboarding for video, Web, and presentions * Information graphics * Mini Art School--all the basics in one chapter * Outputting your work

Author : Derek Yates,Jessie Price
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781474239257

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Communication Design by Derek Yates,Jessie Price Pdf

The success of a piece of communication has always been dependent on the connection between content, form, audience and context – what the message is, who it's aimed at, what it looks like, and how and where it's communicated. In recent years the balance between these elements has shifted. This book bridges the gap between education and emerging practices to provide students and practitioners with the information they need to understand the new skillsets required to succeed in this changing communication environment. Organized into themes of brand, experience, conversation, participation, navigation, advocacy and critique, it explores the core ideas shaping contemporary practice. Alongside case studies of game changing projects, it uses analysis of historical context and interviews with key thinkers and practitioners to provide a relevant and contemporary guide to the creative employment landscape.

Author : Radan Martinec,Theo van Leeuwen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000155266

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The Language of New Media Design by Radan Martinec,Theo van Leeuwen Pdf

The Language of New Media Design is an innovative new textbook presenting methods on the design and analysis of a variety of non-linear texts, from websites to CD-Roms. Integrating theory and practice, the book explores a range of models for analyzing and constructing multimedia products. For each model the authors outline the theoretical background and demonstrate usage from students' coursework, commonly available websites and other multimedia products. Assuming no prior knowledge, the book adopts an accessible approach to the subject which has been trialled and tested on MA students at the London College of Communication. Written by experienced authors, this textbook will be an invaluable resource for students and teachers of new media design, information technology, linguistics and semiotics.