The purpose of this assignment is to further my knowledge within the fields that I am interested in. By doing this, I will be able to apply those fundamentals in my developmental stage of web design.
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I chose this particular article because I was intrigued by how psychology plays a role in web design and how I can use this guideline to improve my web site. My three points of interest were how trust, minimalism and a virtual tour plays an important role in how the user interacts with your web site. By building trust, I learned that designing your site relevant to you target audience only increases their safety and familiarity with your site. Giving them a larger chance of revisiting. Minimalism is also very important. I learned that back then, the more things that were displayed on a site, the longer the user would stay, but that isn't the case anymore. By limiting the amount of content on your web site, it creates a simple and straight the point experience for the user. Overall, it produces a positive outcome. Lastly, your web page must resemble a virtual tour. I learned that the easier you make the layout, the more natural it will feel moving around it, the happier the user will be. I learned to avoid dead ends because that will more than likely make the user leave your page. By digging deep into these fundamentals, I feel that it'll help me make positive upgrades to my site. I will make sure that the site engages the correct target audience and that every page is a virtual tour.
I chose this article because I wanted to make sure that I am not producing any of these mistakes on my web page. I also want to learn how to avoid them for future projects. My three points of interest are not having enough white space, kerning, and using rasters. I learned that utilizing the extra white space on a page is a good idea. It creates contrast and is also used as a guiding tool for users. Kerning is also something people don't think about right away. Kerning is the space between letters. I learned that if it's done right, it can give a new and organized piece of text that is also visually appealing. Rasters is also very important. I learned that most images that are in the format of jpegs, gifs, and pngs are pixel related. By using an image in this format, you risk it looking pixelated if you try to blow it up. To avoid this, use images in the format of Vectors. Vectors are made of lines, curves, and points so if you blow it up, it won't be distorted. I can use these tools to make my website look great by not blowing up my images, adding some flare by kerning, and also utilizing white space.
I chose this article because it will educate my on the upcoming trends. I am not super familiar with web deign, so I think this will help give me ideas on deign. My three points of interest are reduction in page height, micro experiences, and renewed emphasis on originality. Page height reduction is a future prediction and hope. I actually tried to incorporate this in my home page on the fake website. I learned that there was a lot more meaning to it than a layout. By reducing the web page height, you are reducing the content making it simpler to view and also reducing the amount of annoying scrolls you have to do just to get to the bottom of the page. I think it's a great idea and hopefully new trend very soon. Micro experiences are pretty interesting. I learned that they are, in an oversimplified way, and app within an app. It's a way for users to view more content on a page, but have it presented in a very simplistic way. Almost like a tab that can pop up displayed more information. It's quite genius. Last of all, renewed emphasis on originality. Having an original styled web page is hard to come by. The authors prediction is that soon, designed pages will be made by custom drawn elements mixed with animations. This idea is very organic and I personally think that it will catch on very slow because it must be presented in the right way. Although I have started to use the reducing the web page height idea, I think that incorporating micro experiences will make it all the better. It's not something that I know how to do, but I will definitely be doing more research on it for upcoming projects.
Recommended Web Site for the Diigo Library
I think this is a great website for the diigo library and also something to help other students out because it is full with great advice. You don't have to be a pro at web design, this site provides you with links to other sites to be able to code, embed, ideas for layouts, grid templates, and more!
