11-8: Presentations
Overall, the group with the Web Style Guide: 2nd Ed. was the most useful for our Wikis and our Websites. It is easy to follow and is organized quite well, the site that is. It gives valuable information to help with the design of various sites as well as general guidelines.
I-claim, visualizing arguements, did not seem to be as informative as the "Guide." While it did raise some interesting points, most of the information was already in my head. It just helped to visualize it on screen. Also, the examples were very illustrative.
The remaining two had some information that is useful. However, the majority of the points seemed to be covered by the "Guide." Also, some of it was intuitive. You obviously would not want to put a pale color text on a white background due to the strain on the eyes. Overall, all of the presentations contained some usefulness, some more than others. But, the most beneficial seems to be the "Guide."
posted by Red Head Matt at 3:17 PM
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I agree that the Web Style Guide is particularly useful. It is also accessible to all of you - whereas only the group members got to spend time with the other materials, and some of the presentations were, we might say - eclectic?
At some point, if you become more interested in the rhetoric of design the CD by Ball and Arola, which gives more in-depth,experiential consideration of visual elements, might feel more important. Same with the I-Claim CD - if you want to make more effective visual argumments, and would like to spend some time thinking in-depth about how mulit-media design makes its arguments.
I was curious about how the class would respond to the materials in terms of their degree of interactivity. I was expecting you n-generation folks to have a strong preference for the two CDs, since you actually worked through the concepts rather than reading about them. It's not clear that the class had that response.
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