Session 1: Today I will demonstrate everything necessary to produce the calendar project that was assigned in Week 1.
Session 2: Let’s wrap up questions you may have regarding the calendar project today and then begin our discussion surrounding the SCANMIC Project. This project will involve utilizing box model to layout text content and images that illustrate how the SCANMIC criteria applies to a website of your choice.
Assignment: Let’s create single page with the layout, images and type all formatted with CSS. Write the content for your web page as a critique of a website that you consider a bad design. Create a one or two page web based evaluation of the website outlining how your example site does not adequately apply the usability points above. The site you evaluate must be accessible over the internet and shouldn’t be too high profile or contain inappropriate materials. Make sure you include links to the pages that you’re evaluating in your web document also include images to illustrate your points. Links to your evaluations will be due on the drop off drive by Session 1, Week 4.
SCANMIC Evaluation Project Requirements
1. Select a poorly designed “under the radar” website to evaluate.
2. Write a paragraph or two of content for each of the seven SCANMIC points.
3. Create anchors with navigation to each point from the top of the page.
4. Use a linked or imported custom CSS document to format the type and images.
5. Link your evaluation on the drop off drive by Session 1, Week 4.
Student Example:
http://www.daneray.com/examples/scanmic/scanmic.html
Reading Assignment (PDF):
Identifying Web Usability Criteria
Download: IM2420 Problem Set 1
1. All IM2420 problems are due by the beginning of class on the next day that the class meets.
2. Answers must be available via links on the OLS or comparable hosting and copied to the drop off drive.
3. Solutions to each problem set will be given during demonstrations on the day that they are due.
4. Grades will be collected during the solution demonstrations by an assigned classmate.