Tutorial: 15. Web Site Design From the Trenches

Tom Brinck, Diamond Bullet Design; Darren Gergle, Diamond Bullet Design; Scott Wood, Diamond Bullet Design

Benefits
You will learn practical techniques for designing Web sites while meeting tight schedules and working with limited budgets.

Origins
This is a new tutorial for CHI 98.

Features

• Web site design with tight schedules and limited budgets
• project management
• requirements analysis
• graphic design
• mock-up methods
• user interface guidelines for the Web
• techniques for user testing

Audience
Designers and developers who are interested in Web site design. Experience browsing and searching the Web is assumed.

Presentation
Lecture and small-group activities.

Instructors
Tom Brinck is director of design & production at Diamond Bullet Design, doing Web site design and usability consulting for a wide spectrum of clients. Tom has an MA in computer science and cognitive psychology, and has previously done research in educational software, multimedia, and network services at Apple Computer, Toshiba and Bellcore. Darren Gergle is a digital designer at Diamond Bullet Design. He has degrees in fine arts and psychology from the University of Michigan and studied printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art. He previously worked on various digital media projects at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Scott Wood is president of Diamond Bullet Design. His duties include site, database and software design. He has an MA in computer science and experience with software development and usability consulting.

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