yourarthere.org Redesign Proposal

The post-it exercise translated into the following wireframe for the home page and gallery pages

We do not propose drastic changes to the architecture itself. Mainly we suggest possibly changing the name “Publicity” to “Press.”

proposal outline

The Coleman Center

Content page redesign

Web2: Your Art Here and Coleman Center redesign project

For our next project we’ll be working directly with two non-profit organizations to create newly designed, database-driven websites for each. We’ll talk with the clients, learning what their needs are, and create architectures, recommendations, and designs to match those needs. Finally, we’ll learn to install WordPress, mark-up the designs as WordPress themes, and transfer their content into the new site(s). Here are the organizations and links to their current websites:

The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) is a contemporary arts organization in York, Alabama, that uses art to foster positive social change, answer civic needs, build local pride, and use creativity for community problem solving.

Your Art Here is an Indiana-based non-profit public art organization created to provide local communities with an opportunity to engage in visual, public dialogue through the use of billboards and other public spaces.

The plan

1. Logistics
1. Nominate team leader
2. How will you communicate?
2. Create a recommendation
1. Description
1. Describe what you will be doing for the client
2. What is possible?
1. Generate ideas (Post-it notes)
3. Architecture
1. Make an outline
4. Content management?
1. WordPress
2. Drupal
5. Moving content
1. What issues are there in regard to content?
6. Design
1. Notes
7. XHTML/CSS
8. Social media and other functionality
3. Meet with client
4. Setup WordPress
1. Begin working with client to understand how content will be organized
2. Come up with a plan for moving content
3. Begin moving content
5. Begin design iteration
1. Look at really good design
2. Work on your design
3. Take a break
4. Repeat
6. Code markup
7. Create WordPress theme
1. WordPress cheatsheet
8. Launch!!!

Example sites

http://creative-capital.org/

http://www.artmattersfoundation.org/

http://www.warholfoundation.org/

http://moma.org/

http://www.moca.org/

http://whitney.org/

http://thecontemporary.org/

http://www.walkerart.org/

http://www.imamuseum.org/

WEB_2: Google 101 and Flash 99% Bad

Discuss: Google Webmaster Guidelines and Google 101: How Google crawls, indexes, and serves the web

Discuss: Jakob Nielsen, Flash 99% Bad

The Zimmerman Agency

The Zimmerman Agency is looking for two web developers (one junior and one senior level). Here’s the high-level skills list:

Strong HTML/XHTML, CSS and JavaScript skills
Experience with ColdFusion or PHP
Comfortable slicing Photoshop files
Experience writing SQL queries
Working knowledge of jQuery or related framework
Experience developing apps for social media platforms
Development experience with open-source CMS tools

Interested folks should email a PDF resume to:
devjobs@zimmerman.com

PROJECT M

Project M is an intensive summer program designed to inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers and other creative people that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world.

http://www.projectmlab.com/

Website design

A short collection of sleek, minimal, minimal designs…

http://www.transferstudio.co.uk/
http://www.jeremycharles.com/
http://tharoor.in/
http://www.foodincmovie.com/
http://www.thetoke.com/

Freud’s ‘Mystic Writing Pad’ and Neil on ‘Designing Web Interfaces’

Sigmund Freud, A Note upon the “Mystic Writing Pad” (1925)
freud-sigmund-the-mystic-writing-pad

Theresa Neil, Designing Web Interfaces: 12 Standard Screen Patterns

Usability readings

Naz Hamid, Design is in the Details

Jakob Nielsen, Usability 101: Introduction to Usability

and Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design