UX stands for user experience, and speaks to how people feel when interacting with a product or system, from beginning to end. UX research and UX design are vital in crafting great user experiences, and this article will explain some key concepts and methods used…
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Analysis of the original site I was mostly happy with the results of my first submission of the small business website – I liked the final colour scheme and how the images I chose fit into that, I finally settled on the typefaces I wanted,…
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Tailwind CSS “is a utility-first CSS framework used for rapidly building custom user interfaces“.To break this down further, this means that Tailwind CSS provides a catalog of CSS classes to help style an website or application. Each of these classes have their own specific use,…
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I’ll preface this by saying I found it really hard to find websites with good colour schemes for this week’s journal post – apparently, a lot of the websites I frequent rely on the good old black and white. The ones that did use colour…
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tate.org.uk This might be because I spent half of my time in high school on their website and archives for my art classes, but I feel like the typeface the Tate use on their website is embedded in my brain. So much so, that when…
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This week we welcomed the world of CSS – what it is, how it developed, and how to use it. To start with, we looked at CSS Resets, and with it came the suggestion of Eric Meyer’s reset. This is the reset I’ve been using…
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This week was all about the anatomy of a web page, including looking at the web standards model. This breaks web design into considered layers of structure, presentation, and behaviour. We can map these to web design as: HTML (our structure) CSS (the presentation) Javascript…
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1: AirBnB This website’s homepage is very visually appealing, with its mix of illustrations and good quality photographs. The overall site is intuitive to use; the first thing that users see at the top of the homepage is the search bar, containing the minimum fields…
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1: JosephJoseph measuring cups If there’s a fan club for JosephJoseph kitchenware, I’m electing myself as their leader. This is a measuring cup set with eight cups/spoons of varying sizes, going from the yellow 1/2 tsp measuring spoon up to the purple full cup measure.…
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