Week2 Reading

CH3 Billboard Design 101

There are five important things

-Create a clear visual hierarchy on each page
First make the appearance of the things on the page and see clearly and accurately portray the relationships between the things on the page. The important something is, the more prominent it is.

-Take advantage of conventions
We all learned to read a newspaper. Not the words, but the conventions. We have to know that usually a headline that summarizes the story underneath it, and that text underneath a picture is either a caption that tells me what it is picture of. The various conventions of page layout and formatting make it easier and faster to scan a newspaper and fine the stories we were interested in. all newspaper used the same convention, so knowing the conventions made it easy to read any newspaper

-Break pages up into clearly defined areas
It Is allows users to decide quickly which areas of the page to focus on and which areas they can safely ignore.

-Make it obvious what’s clickable
When you force users to think about something that should be mindless like what’s clickable, you are squandering the limited reservoir of patience and good will that each user brings to a new site.

-Minimize noise
Busy-ness.
Background noise.
Many people have problem with busy pages and background noise. Thus, you are designing Web pages, it is probably a good idea to assume that everything is visual noise until proven otherwise.


CH4 Animal, vegetable, or mineral?

How many times you can expect users to click to get what they want without getting too frustrated. Some sites even have design rules stating that it should never take more than a specified number of clicks to get to any page in the site.


CH5 Omit needless words
Do not repeat words and same sentences. Removing half oh the words is a realistic goal so, use sound excessive space instate of the word but do not lose Value and it has to be clear to understand to audiences.
To remove all those words that no one reads. it give use several beneficial effects
-It reduces the noise level of the page.
-It makes the useful content more prominent.
-It makes the pages shorter, allowing users to see more of each page at a glance without scrolling.

Eliminate instructions and happy talk as much as possible because no one is going to read them.


Three Links related to Reading

ttp://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/visual-hierarchy-in-web-design/

This site describes principle hierarchy about size, color, contrast, shape, position, and whitespace.

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/unique-website-layouts/

This site is example of layout, you will see good layout of websites.

http://www.webdesign.org/web-design-basics/design-principles/visual-hierarchy.4750.html

This website is the web design library.