ED722, Interface Design — Capella University
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Unit 1 - Does Interface Design Matter? - `Design is the CRUX,` by Leanne Boyd Unit 1 - Online Course Orientation
Secure server space and upload the first home page.
Does Interface Design Matter?

Unit 2 - Web-based interface - `HTML, art and magic - What makes the Web,` by Leanne Boyd Unit 2 - Web-Based Interface Design
"HTML, art and magic - What makes the Web," by Leanne Boyd
Create a navigation path to all of the course units.
Prepare a description of navigation standards.

Unit 3 - Interface Design as Information Space Unit 3 - Interface Design as Information Space
Define your user base or target audience.
Create a usability study for your userbase.
Web Site Review - LessonPro.net and Blackboard.com.
A Usability Survey Form for Learner Feedback.

Unit 4 - Communicative Interface Design Unit 4 - Communicative Interface Design
Coordinate the color and font / type styles with needs of the user base:
      Color and Font Issues for Space Artists (2000)

WBI and the Younger Learner — WBI and Ms. Ross's First Grade Class
Golden Rules of Interface Design — On Theo Mandel's Design Rules
      Glenn Hoyle's Distance Learning, and AT&T's Virtual Classroom:
      Both sites are great fun and info!

The Use of Popup Windows in Web Design
The Use of Fonts & Text as Images as Web Design Elements

Unit 5 - Interface Design as Virtual Landscape Unit 5 - Interface Design as Virtual Landscape
Insert graphics and images that are responsive to the needs of the user base:
      "Web Design - versus, and-or CD Design"

Unit 5 - Courseroom Commentary on Web Design and Virtual Landscape

Unit 6 - Interface Design as Architecture Unit 6 - Interface Design as Architecture
Insert multimedia events that contribute to the needs of the user base.
      "Multimedia Standards and Events in Web Design"

Unit 6 - Courseroom Commentary on Interface Design as Architecture,
      and Multimedia Standards and Events in Web Design

Unit 7 - Interface Design as Interactive and Responsive - The ED722 SEARCH ENGINE!! Unit 7 - Interface Design as Interactive and Responsive
Consider the addition of database and search capabilities.
    Click here to use the SEARCH ENGINE for this web site.
Commentaries in Courseroom Discussions
Beam Me Up Scotty - Cellular Phone as Modem Connection

Unit 8 - `Five Ideas Gleaned for Enhancing Professional Performance` Unit 8 - Summary
Presentation of the final Project Paper:
      Evaluating Internet Techniques and Methodologies in Areas for the
      Multimedia Instructional Design Team: Incorporating the Works of
      Pierre Lévy, Philosopher of Contemporary Virtual Culture,
      Paris, France

Presentation of the five important ideas you have gleaned from this course.
      "Five Ideas Gleaned for Enhancing Professional Performance"



Don't We Love Nursery Rhymes??

They say that curiosity killed the cat — but
[if anything can do it]
it's GREAT DESIGN that brought her back!!!
[ ... for that new and improved, designer-chic,
BRAND NAME kitty kat food
she saw on the Internet!! ]



This has EVERYTHING to do with "Design Matters," — IT GOT YOUR ATTENTION

GREAT design brought her back!
  "Bright New Morning Dew" © 1984 - 2001 Leanne C. Boyd

 



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