Fall Semester 2006
Tuesday/Friday 12:30
Dr. John Hutchinson, Professor

Issue #21 - Designing on both sides of your brain
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay21.htm
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
Web Pages that Suck
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Good design vs. Bad design on the web
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/web_design.html
Good sites for Web Design
Design Matters: Color Theory
http://www.sheriftariq.org/design/color/index.html
Web Design Features – Good and Bad
http://www.ratz.com/features.html
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Modern Web Design
http://www.snowgoose.co.uk/services/designarticle.htm
Design Matters: Fonts
http://www.sheriftariq.org/design/fonts/index.html

Design Matters: White Space
http://www.sheriftariq.org/design/whitespace/index.html

Loughborough University Industrial Design Students http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/

Design Matters: White Space
http://www.sheriftariq.org/design/whitespace/index.html

 

Issue #23 - How to run a Design Critique
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay23.htm
Issue #15 - Critical thinking in web/interface design part 2: idea generation
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay15.htm
Issue #14 - Critical Thinking in Web and Interface Design
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay14.htm
Issue #8 - Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay08.htm
Issue #1 - Why Are Good User Interfaces So Hard to Make? Three Insights into Good Design
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay01.htm
Bad Human Factors Design http://www.baddesigns.com/
STUDENT PAGES
A very good series of articles by Scott Berkun:
Free Font Resources
ENKP Free Fonts
http://www.eknp.com/fonts/
Font Empire
http://www.themeworld.com/fonts/indexA.shtml
Font Freak
http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm
Fonts & Things
http://www.fontsnthings.com/a/a.html
Nick's Fonts
http://www.nicksfonts.com/
Simply the Best Fonts
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/

Action Fonts
http://www.actionfonts.com/default.asp

Taking good photos
http://www.weschan.com

Kodak - taking better photos
http://www.kodak.com/

Photo Secrets
http://www.photosecrets.com/tips.html

 

Why Good Design Matters
http://www.skidmorestudio.com/we/white_paper_pdfs
What is Good Design?
http://www.betterproductdesign.net/WhatIs.htm
Science Friday: Listen to Discussion on Everyday Design on RealAudio:
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2002/Feb/hour2_020102.html
On-line Design Texts
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2360/english-only.htm
Reading/Listening Resources
Other Resources & Tutorials
History of Industrial Design
http://www.qdesign.co.nz/designhist.html
Eras of Time
http://www.victorianbazaar.com/eras.html
Art Deco Web Sites
http://www.adsw.org/resource/websites/Collections/
Photoshop Tutorials: Tools, Techniques, Text Effects
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/Photoshop-3,8.html
Photoshop Tutorials from Tutorial Outpost
http://www.tutorialoutpost.com/
Photoshop Tutorials: Tutorial Kit
http://www.tutorialkit.com/
Department of Technological Studies
Design and Taste
http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
Good Design in the Digital Age - PDF Document
http://id.bobulate.com/readings/gooddesign.pdf
Composition and Design
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/Compose.htm
Graphic Design Principles Index
http://www.math.duke.edu/education/ccp/resources/...
Graphic Design Elements and Principles
http://www.1designsource.com/gdlinks.html#elements
ASSIGNMENTS
RESOURCES