MP15: Chapter 3

One way is to break up the pages into easily defined areas. This will make the website less busy, which allows the user to choose quickly what parts of the page to pay attention to and what they can ignore.


Another way is to make it obvious what's clickable. This helps the user have an easy visit and navigation through your website. Even though its pretty obvious they will figure it out soon enough, it's the fact that you don't want the user to have to think, you want them to just be able to flow through your website.

MP14: Chapter 2

Scanning is a technique that we use that we don't really think about it we just do it. Whether it is because we are in a rush and don't have the time to read everything, or because we don't need to read everything. When your scanning, your just gliding through the page waiting for a certain word or phrase to get your attention. Sometimes colors and pictures and certain type faces come into play when your scanning and catch your eye more.

Satisficing is pretty much the best guess for designing web pages. This is because people don't have the time, it's not that big of a deal if your wrong, you never truly know what works and what doesn't work until you try and it makes more exciting that way.

Minor Project 17: "Mimesis" Wireframe

Minor Project 16: Major Project brief. Client: Professor Brian Noell

Minor Project 16: Major Project brief. Client: Professor Brian Noell, EN102 "Mimesis" Web Site
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The Core Creative Concept:
To be easy to navigate and very simple. I want the user to feel comfortable when navigating through the website to ensure a simple overall concept towards user capability. 


The over-all look & feel or personality: 

(Structure Theme in Wordpress) 


Warm and casual over-all look and feel. I want the colors too be very welcoming and make people want to stay and explore the website. Very organized

Purpose and objectives:
The purpose of this website is "Mimesis". To give many resources of this EN102 course.

Information Architecture:
Course layout 

Audience:
EN102 students

Typography:
Sans Serif- to give a professional look

Minor Project 13: Static Web Page Mockups

Minor Project 12: Schematic/Site Map

Minor Project 11: Wireframes

Brief: Classic Care

For Tracy Van Oss’, we want to construct a website that is simple, clean, and efficient.  The focus of the site is to promote Professor Van Oss’ success in the field of occupational therapy as well as her personal business.  To do so, we want to advertise her brand through sophisticated colors, tasteful typefaces, and gripping personal photos.  Our target audience are possible clients looking to invest in Classic Care, LLC, as well as those interested in the occupational therapy field. Based on the vast rangy of the audience, the website needs to be functional and effortless.  From doctors to elderly clients, the pages need to be appealing and effortless so that the usability is for any individual no matter what technological experience he or she might have.

Visually, our website will be welcoming to the eye through calm, cool colors. We want the website to give off salutation and hospitality so that it directly reflects “Classic Care” and it’s message. Because Classic Care’s colors are white and navy, we decided to work off this theme by adding some similar hues to accent the images. By researching other medical websites, we found that the information provided is the key ingredient to the site. Therefore, the colors are not the prime focus; rather, they will support the content. To accent the navy and white, we were looking to add a soft blue, pale yellow, light brown, and a warm brown with a hint of magenta. 

Typography is also a key ingredient in creating the feel of the website.  To parallel the Classic Care, LLC brand, we want to continue with a serif typeface. For the heading, we decided to choose Didot because of its elegance and classic look.  The balance of weight throughout the letters is intriguing and delicate. The subtext, however, will be Georgia. We chose this because it is a web based typeface and will be easy to read. We want to continue using Didot for the navigation bar which houses six links: “Home,” “About Us,” “In the Community,” “Aging in Place,” “Home Modification,” and lastly, “Child Safety.”  These links will be parent/child pages with further information and external links within. Also, to showcase Professor Van Oss’ accomplishments, we would like to use the top left portion of the home page to illustrate her credentials. Also, the home page will provide a simple summary of Classic Care, LLC as well as the mission and vision statement. The audience is visiting the site for a particular reason; therefore, we want the home page to be resourceful and contain significant information, so people can get a taste of who they are working with. Also, we will provide a slideshow with personal images as well as Professor Van Oss’ photograph.

Our schedule for implementation is to complete the high fidelity wireframes for class on Wednesday, October 5, 2011. Also, we will complete mock-ups, a sitemap, and a logo for Wednesday, October 12, 2011. 

Lastly, our research of medical websites includes:

http://www.texasrenalcare.com/

http://www.barrowgwinnettent.com/

http://www.hss.edu/

MP9: Krug's First Law

 It makes complete sense that when designing a website you simply want the viewer/user to go with the flow and be easy. Krug's first law of usability is that you don't want people to need to think when they are using the website, it should be self-evident, obvious, self explanatory. It is important because you want people to know what it is and how to use it without exhausting any energy to think about it. The whole idea of it is to show off what your website is promoting, and the faster and more simpler that message can be delivered the more attention is spent on the information than the actual navigation through the website.