keyword: web design

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Future Retro

Post author By Manuel Schmalstieg
Post date Nov 2018

An assignment by Boris Müller, Professor for Interaction Design at FH Potsdam

In 2017, I gave a web design class at the Interface Design Programme in Potsdam, Germany. Each team was asked to come up with a redesign for an existing website. The assignment was very clear: Treat the browser as a blank canvas and create expressive, imaginative visual experiences. Use the technological potential of current web technologies as a channel for your creativity. Do not be constrained by questions of usability, legibility, and flexibility. Have an attitude. Disregard Erwartungskonformität.

The results: https://interface.fh-potsdam.de/future-retro/

Source: Why Do All Websites Look the Same?, Medium, Oct 30 2018

Tags FH Potsdam, interface design, UX Design, web design

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Student Bio Website

Post author By Manuel Schmalstieg
Post date Feb 2018

Use the basics of HTML to make a personal website.

Source: Sara Shields, web design and publishing course, Texas State University.

Tags html, web design

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CSS Zen Garden

Post author By Manuel Schmalstieg
Post date Feb 2018

In this assignment, students create their own version of the CSS Zen Garden.

Source: Scott Granneman, teaching at Washington University, St. Louis.

Observation: it could be interesting to do an exercice that is “similar to it but on a component level”. For an example, see the article “Same HTML, Different CSS” by Ahmad Shadeed.

Tags css, web design