week 8 lecture notes

Lecture 1- UX and UI

This lecture was pretty much about Brain Lucid's take on the web in the present and the past.

UX
- Is more about the system and structure of the web and designing tools for others to use. He said he found it more interesting when people didn't know what they wanted and he had a blank canvas to work from.
-Is about finding out how to explain what we need to know and how to structure it
-Research
-info/Architecture(wireframes) ---> managing the complexity
-User flow---> controlling the pace of info and how it all integrates together

UI
-Visual response such as colour, type

The concept of the death of the web
-Websites used to be a undefined medium and a 'playground' or 'experiment'
-Nowadays websites look similar (he showed us some examples and they did look pretty much the same)--> which isn't pushing anything further ---> causing generic to win
-It isn't about whether the design is good enough

-->Shared toolsets such as code and frameworks (dynamic/Flexible structures such as wordpress) --> people misusing these shared codes (people need to be responsible for use of code)
--->Reliance on Defaults
--->Devaluation of visual language
--->New Design Paradigms such as Responsive design (figuring out how to use it well?)

Emerging Trends
-The age of typographic websites is an emerging trend
-Having objects overlap
-White space (activated/purpose)

Other things to consider
-Performance as a design--> Optimizing for mobiles that may be slow?
-Find tools and modify for things you want to make -- and -- don't modify your design to fit the tools
-Grids are not containers and are meant to be challenged
-The web is not print (organize content)
-Typography on the web is in its golden age

Lecture 2-- Feedback on presentations as a whole

-Cite content/Research (where the information is all from)
-Spellcheck and make sure the language is all consistent
-Show your process e.g. photos showing you've been to the space, 'you said we heard'- showing that we're listening and responding to the clients
-Show that we've been looking at their stuff
-Evidence of Ideas-- In presentation and dossier (should be the same)
-Production,costs,timeline
-Show coherence -- show ideas in context/situation
-Videos (quick and show something you can't present)
-Show Design leadership-- what idea does the concept link to

-Sarah