Web Design & Accessibility

Basic Resources

Tux! Design:

• Rule of three - no more than three:
  • Colors:

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    ██ ██ ██
  • Fonts:

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    Font Font Font
  • Images per page

    ---

    (more of a rule for print)
• Typography:
  • Sans-serif is best for screen
  • Serif is best for print
• Design for hierarchy of needs (Smashing Magazine)
  
• Design philosophies:
  • Universal Design (inclusive design)
  • Interaction Design (IxD)
  • User Experience (UX)
  • User Centered Design (UCD)
• W3C Markup Validator

Accessibility:

• 30 Web Accessibility Tips (Access Computing)
• Introduction to Web Accessibility (WebAIM)
• Techinique for hiding text - for screen readers only (WebAIM)
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool - WAVE (WebAIM)

Video Clips about design:

• Independent Lens | OBJECTIFIED | Film Clip #1
• Objectified
• Dieter Rams and Jonathan Ive talk on Design
• Dieter Rams 10 Principles of “Good Design”
• Interaction Design
• Connecting - Trends in UI, Interaction, & Experience Design