The most exciting Nav bar of all! What a delicious way of getting around your site!
My favorite part of your Project - An invaluable addition to the Interface and usability on your pages!
Final Project - Assessment for Heidi
 
Week 6: Wrapping It Up

Learning Objectives

1.       Be able to design and produce a project that utilizes strong knowledge and application of good information architecture.

The Main Criteria:

 

 

 

 

 

1. Create the navigation scheme - 4 points

 

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yep!

 

 

2. Create two different "color comps" (or prototypes) of the home page to illustrate the site navigation and the design issue decisions - 6 points each, for a total of 12 points

 

 

 

3. Create one internal page for one of the home page designs - this is
Extra Credit of 3 points

 

 

 

4. Prototypes should be delivered as flattened JPEGs

 

 

 

 

The 5 P's:

 

 

 

 

 

1. PREPARATION - Research, Identity requirements, logo, branding, company structure, etc. How well does your prototype reflect that you've analyzed and researched the elements given by The Starwood Beach Resort?

 

 

  * Location

 

  * Target Market(s)

 

      ~ Families

 

      ~ Travel agents

 

      ~ International audience

 

  * Branding usage (logo and color usage)

 

  * Appropriate ameneties, such as fax and 800 services and other 'competitive' business factors

 

  * Short- and long-term goals of the company

 

 

 

 

2. PROTOTYPING - Did you "Greek" or did you create copy? Does your prototype have a natural "flow," no matter which way you created the copy?

 

 

 

 

 

3. PERFORMANCE - Usability and User Engagement - will the technology support your content? Are the actions you propose and the results a user will get, realistic and in good design, interface-wise?

 

 

 

 

 

4. PRACTICE - Does your prototype show what you've learned through practice on earlier projects? This would include placement of items, visual techniques, use of color, etc. as they apply to sensible USABILITY. These are the criteria that show me "where you've been," and how it's come into play in the final project.

 

 

 

 

 

5. PRESENTATION - Is this pleasing and professional? Is your design an accumulation of your design background and the new skills we've learned in CWD920? How well is the TOTAL PACKAGE presented?

 

hot!! 

 

 

 

Assessment Results:

 

 

 

 

 

Heidi -- your pages are simply a visitor's delight! Your work, both in design and in written summary, shows such tremendous depth of understanding of the concepts of User Interface Design! You came into this with such a gift for visual, and a great understanding of previous coursework and the building of pages ... but your growth in the area of understanding the user, and the visual and conceptual techniques for really reaching and aiding the visitor ... is tremendous! My favorite part ... although it all is of a quite high level ... is the delightful Nav bar you've created. Not only could this be taken to such a fun level of creativity and interactivity .. but it is a very brave and unique look and feel. You've left white space that could incorporate very inventive popup menus, from these images. I had to laugh ... your "Our Rooms" button, and it's a beach umbrella! Ah, to sleep on the beach on a foreign shore, with NO PC hookup, for just one week! As usual, your visuals are impeccable. The other outstanding feature was the inclusion of the very strong golden glow of the sunset over the water -- it's a very alluring image for your pages. Wonderful use of company colors, logo, and required tools! Great job!!

 19 POINTS!

 

 

 

 

 

 
Thank you! This has been an extemely fruitful class -- LOTS of great work, and we've discovered so much about what is truly effective in the Interface of the Internet. Your participation -- and YOU -- are deeply appreciated :-))
 
Leanne
 
 
 
 
 

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