GDES-220 fall 2023 / David Ramos, American University Design
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Color / Parts of a page
October 9
Monday
Topics
- Color models and transparency
- Parts of a page
- Process for Story
From class
- Color demo (ZIP)
- Parts of a site (ZIP)
Projects
- Finish the “Content and discovery” phase of Story, and part 1 (and possibly part 2) of the “Design” phase
- In-class style tiles exercise in Figma, using style tiles template. (Consult the list of fonts for this class.)
Thursday
Projects
- Crits for Story
Reading
- Krug, Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: ch. 3 (designing pages for scanning)
- Amy Papelias, Facing Our Fears: Teaching Type on the Web
- “Hierarchy” article on Thinking with Type
- Gabriel Weinberg, What if We All Just Sold Non-Creepy Advertising? (by the founder of DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn’t track users and still seems to be flourishing)
- Optional: Axios, The 2020 campaign gets colorful (one-minute read about colors in 2020 presidential campaign materials)