Intro Questions
1. Provide your name, major, year in school (sophomore, junior, etc).
My name is Madison. I am a junior majoring in Communication Design (with minors in CS and Psych).
2. Tell us a bit about your background and what prompted you to take this class.
I am interested in working as a UX Designer, so I want to improve my Web Dev skills for rapid prototyping.
3. Do you have any experience with HTML/CSS/JS? If so, tell us a bit about it.
I have self-studied limited amounts of html/css, and I have used it to start working on my portfolio from scratch.
You can view that progress
here.
4. Name one thing you hope to learn in this class.
I want to get a bit more confident with CSS and creating multi-page sites.
5. Name one way you expect designing for screen to be different from designing for paper.
When designing for a screen, you have to ensure your designs are scalable in many formats (web, mobile, tablet, etc).
6. Provide a link to a website you think exemplifies effective design. Explain your choice.
I think Starbuck's website
here has a very recognizable design through the jewel tone palette and consistent treatment of type, banners, and buttons.
7. Provide a link to a website you think exemplifies effective communication. Explain your choice.
Pew Research's articles have data visualizations that are simple and legible, especially in these graphs
here
.
8. Provide a link to a website you think works well. Explain your choice.
Airbnb's web app is simple to navigate on mobile and web, and I think it works well because it highlights the most relevant filters
and updates the other parameters as demands for housing changes.