Wonderful blend of pictorial and text for future rollover button Nav Bar! 
My favorite part of your Project - An invaluable addition to the Interface and usability on your pages!
Final Project - Assessment for Mary
 
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:

 

 

 

 

 

Mary -- I am just so totally amazed with the results of your project! You've thought of amenities and useful tools that nobody else thought to include! Your pages show a tremendous amount of work and a deep understanding of the objectives of our User Interface Design class! I love the excitement on your Project pages ... there is a lot going on, and as you've pointed out in the Discussion area ... you intend to keep your visitors! There are many things that each of us, as Designers, would change -- tomorrow, next week, next month ... but for now, your site has a delicious appeal, an intuitive flow to the information, and the pages show that you have a gut-level feeling for what the visitor to a site would want and need. I also like that you've put a lot of exploratory design into this ... your floating buttons could easily be taken into rollover effects! The one thing I would say is that if I had done the upper nav bar, I would consider a different alignment than the offset buttons, as a more squared look would feel more comfortable for most people ... we tend to be raised in a society where the angular box helps us divide information. I really liked the map and navigation/sign in for the tourism agents - very effective tool. Keep up the great work! 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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