CP202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mission Creep, Web Development Tools, Project Management
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What do you want to say? (what"s the point?) Who do you want to say it to? (audience) Why do you want to say it? (goal) Metaphor (online shopping vs shopping in store ->western style metaphor) Where they have been? (turns color after you click on it) Hypertext - as you are looking at material, it hopes that it will lead you to somewhere else. Clear (emphasizing what the data is - straigh forward) Concise ( get the point right away) Has minimal frustration (gets the job done with the least amount of clicks) Seven stage lifecycle: define website mission and users. Why do you want to say it: collect user requirements. Design preferences (simplicity or colorful/patterned: create conceptual design. Content in more detail: create physical design. Perform tests on the website with: (user friendly?) Get feedback on ease of use (ask the target audience to actually try using the website) The designer decides how that mission should be expressed:
