Description:
Working individually, you will be redesigning a website for a local non-profit organization (from list provided). Using pre-existing content from the organization's website, you must assess the strengths and weakness of the existing site, and develop ways to improve the information design, visual aesthetic, and interface usability.
Objectives:
+ Apply information and interface design fundamentals and principles to aide in creative problem solving
+ Write HTML, CSS and Javascript code
+ Use industry standard web authoring tools
Specifications:
+ Non-profit organization should be chosen from provided list.
+ User research and usability testing must be conducted throughout project to meet user expectations.
+ Design layout should meet usability standards and current web design/development best practices.
+ All web pages are to be generated with Dreamweaver and/or a text editing application.
+ Scripting languages to be used: HTML, CSS and Javascript. No table, td, tr tags allowed.
+ Website should be responsive & browser compliant in Firefox for desktop, laptop AND mobile platforms (Windows & Mac).
+ All media (video, graphics, photographs and/or artwork) must be original and/or not violate copyright laws.
Deadlines:
Concept Phase: Mindmap, wireframes sketches and Flowchart as PDFs due Monday October 27, 8:30am
Visual Concept Phase: PDF of Moodboard due Wednesday, October 29, 8:30am
Design Comps due for all section: PDF of all layout compositons due Wednesday, November 12, 8:30am
Usability Testing I: Functioning webpages for user review in Firefox due Wednesday, December 3, 8:30am
Final Project 2 critique and submission of all project files due Wednesday, Dec 10, 8:30am
Grading criteria (averaged as 50% of course grade):
Design Aesthetics—30% of project 2
Technical Skill—30% of project 2
Usability—20% of project 2
Process (Flowchart, Wireframe, Sketches, Mood Board, Project Refinement)—20% of project 2
Approved Local Non-Profit Organizations
Alternatives to Violence on the Palouse
Appaloosa Horse Club
Palouse Habitat for Humanity
Rural Roots
Cougar Track & Field Club
Nez Perce County Historical Society
White Spring Ranch
Two Degrees Northwest
Sojourners Alliance
Humane Society of the Palouse additional site here
Graham Ballet
Moscow Adventure Learning Camps
Swing Devils
United Way Pullman
Palouse Folklore Society
Family Promise
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