Monday, November 5, 2007

Finding a balance

When designing a webpage you have to think about a lot more factors then designing, say, a magazine cover. When people use your webpage they need to be able to navigate clearly and thus a structure and purpose within the design has to emerge just as much, if not more prominently then the aesthetics.

I think this will be the main challenge for the class... Lots of us know how to design things that are pleasing to the eye and lots of us can design purely for function, but the task at hand is to find a balance between both and have a harmonious intellectual design that benefits the viewer.

A good clean website will be more productive then something caught up in graphics and colours, but it has to entice the reader. I am really looking forward to this challenge, it is something unlike anything I have ever done before and I think it will be a lot of fun.

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