Interface Design and CSS Workshop Part 1
This four-hour workshop is aimed at designers seeking to improve their interface design skills. You'll leave with a comprehensive understanding of how to design interfaces that are a savvy blend of graphic design, human computing and visual communication. Attend all four sessions, or pick and choose as the day progresses.
Taught by one of the Web's leading designers, this workshop will uncover the tenets of effective navigation schemes, dashboard design, grid usage and other important principles. You'll learn to avoid common UI pitfalls and to embrace worst-case scenarios. The material will cover interface design for Web applications, but also for less functional layouts that make up the everyday corporate or institutional Web site.
Before the day's over, you'll dive into Photoshop and CSS tips and techniques that will help you refine and polish beautiful, usable designs. You'll be taught how to draw inspiration from on- and offline sources, and you'll gain access to top resources for icons, code snippets and more.
Topics Include:
Interface principles defined during the early stages of operating system development, and how they apply to the Web
Rapid prototyping, iterative design and wireframes: what works and what doesn't
Ajax as a critical and non-critical component within the UI
Common and uncommon navigation techniques
Designing organized, effective application dashboards
Copywriting and color, and their roles within the UI
Leveraging CSS across an entire Web site, and avoiding common CSS mistakes
"Bulletproofing" the design of a layout
Case study: dissecting the process from image comp to coded layout
Principal Interaction Designer, LDS Church: Cameron Moll