Information Design

1. Pg 60 #4: Get Topic Approved.
2. Pg 60 #5: Message: This Web Site will __________________.
3. Pg 60 #6: Spend 3 to 10 hours (outside of class) researching topic. Create a Resource List. Include a short note about what you are getting from each reference. Should have at least 10 resources.
4. Pg 62 #1, 2 & 3: Audience: What audience has in common with web site (demographics such as age, where they live, a cause they feel strongly about). What makes your audience unique or different from other groups. Include people who wouldn't be interested. Include a Secondary Audience (optional) - People for whom the sight was not intended, but who might also like it.
5. Pg 65 #1: Audience Analysis: Create a survey for your audience. The survey should have at least 5 questions (2 of the questions should be original).  Have 5 potential audience members complete the survey. Include these in your Information Design.
6. Pg 65 #2: Purpose:  The purpose should include what your audience would expect to see when they visit your Web site.
7. Pg 65 #3: Audience Background: What your audience already knows about this topic. Audience knowledge level.
8. Pg 65 #4: Scope: Two lists, one containing 3-5 things that your Web site will cover and one containing 3-5 things that your Web site will not cover.
9. Pg 70-71 #1-4: (must be done to complete flowchart)
10. Pg 71 #5: Flowchart: Draw your flowchart on a separate piece of paper. Identify the actual structure by name (i.e. Hierarchical, Linear, Random Access, Mixed)
11. Pg 72 #6 (Optional): Using drawing software, re-create your flowchart and insert it into your design document.

Interaction Design

1. Pg 76#1 and #3: (must be done to complete interaction design, you can use 8 1/2 x 11 pieces of paper).
2. Pg 78 #1, #2 and #4: Welcome Page: Sketch and write a paragraph describing the purpose and content of this page.
3. Pg 80 #2, 3 and 6: Sketch other pages denoting context devices.
4. Pg 81 #7: Context Devices: Describe at least two context devices you selected and why.
5. Pg 81 #8 (Optional): Draw a sample of what your context devices might look like.
6. Pg 85 #3: Sketch navigation from Welcome Page to other places on your site. Pg 85 #4: Sketch navigation that will be available on other content pages (i.e. back to welcome page etc.)
7. Pg 85 #7: Navigation and Interaction: Describe and explain navigation system. Why did you choose the navigation aids you sketched.
8. Pg 85 #8 (Optional): Draw a sample of what your navigation tools may look like and copy them into design document.
9. Pg 87 #1 and #4: Place Finding: Sketch and Describe the method you will use to show your viewer where he or she is in your Web site. How will you help your visitors through place finding.

Presentation Design

1. Pg 93 #1: Add these 6 Web Sites that you like to your Resource List (identify them as belonging to this exercise).
2. Pg 96 #9: Final Theme Decision: Explain your theme and why you have decided to go with that particular theme.
3. Pg 99 #3: Sketch each Web Page in your Web site applying your theme to every page.
4. Pg 99 #4:Application of the Design Theme to Web Site. Explain backgrounds, foregrounds and other elements you have sketched into your thumbnails of your Web Site.
5. Pg 101 & 102 #2 & #3: Final Drawings. Using the design principles of unity, balance and proportion, take your thumbnail sketches and create final drawings of your Web Pages. You can apply color here (text can still be greeked, but headlines should be defined).