Design Practice
for the MA in Creative Digital Media

Dublin Institute of Technology

 

Autumn 2009
thursdays, 10am - Noon

 

Syllabus Outline
Classroom exercises
Lecture Topics

(MS Word files)

Project Examples:

Multi-Tool Designs

Consumer Review Websites: Paper Prototyping and Draft Homepages

Coming soon: Digital Application Screen Designs, and Re-Designs

 

More Fun Examples

Design Task 1: the multi-Tool

Design Task 2: Paper Prototyping and the Consumer Review Website

What should the final project be? Have a look at the blog and join the discussion.

November 26 - Have a read through the examples on the Colours and Type examples. There are a number of ideas from a range of sites on how they decide to present their information. Some are commercial sites, some are artist sites, some are straight news.

Paula is then going to work on a visual design project in the afternoon.

 

Lecture Slides as pdf's for download:

DesignPractice-1
DesignProcess (8mb-sorry, lots of pics)
DonaldNorman-4Principles
Buyer'sGuide
NeilsenQuotes
Satisficing+OtherDefinitions
Websites: Colours and Type
(2.2mb)