design 1 – project site proposal

Topics

  • Look to model a good piece of design? Consider a piece of designspiration
    • Imagery, text, and iconography that I can use. Be specific what you want to focus;
    • Find a design that includes some layering and some “side-by-side” elements;
  • Defining the site’s layout:
    • Drawing a box model of primitive shapes over the design suggesting a layout;
  • Defining the architecture:
    • Consider HTML skeleton to support this layout;
  • Defining Typography, Assets, and palette:
    • name a heading and body Google font pairing, name a primary color and grays;
    • Finding text and images from AI or using unsplash

Problem Set

Create a Google Slide presentation in which you include all of the above choices for your final project which you’ll be working on over the next few weeks.

Here’s a sample presentation created by me during class for reference.

For the blog

Summarize your choices from above and link your presentation. Remember to click on the share button of your presentation to get a link that will allow anyone with the link to view the presentation.

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By Michael Branson Smith

Michael Smith is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Communications Technology program at York College. Prof. Smith hosts a personal digital archive project blog on Commons titled It Cannot Be Trivial.

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