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Lesson: Articles on Visual Design - 4 views

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  • Everything should be themed to make your design coherent between pages and on the same page.
    • darinjohnson
      darinjohnson on 27 Jun 14
       
      Here's one element that we can control and that we should control; however, it is also an element that I sometimes have trouble with. Sometimes it takes me awhile to find my style.
  • Font Choices
    • darinjohnson
      darinjohnson on 27 Jun 14
       
      What font should we be using? My journalism minor is quite dusty, but I was taught that body copy should be a serif typeface (e.g. Times New Roman, Georgia) and headlines should be a sans-serif typeface (e.g. Arial, Helvetica). Your choice of type might also give you a better grade: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19604/does-size-12-times-new-roman-font-receive-better-grades-in-school S
  • Squeaky wheels get the grease and prominent visuals get the attention. 
    • darinjohnson
      darinjohnson on 27 Jun 14
       
      This is a potent quotable.
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  • Pantheon
    • darinjohnson
      darinjohnson on 27 Jun 14
       
      This is off topic, but I can't let it go. This is an image of the Parthenon. The Pantheon is in Rome.
  • it’s a good practice to never open links in new browser windows.
    • darinjohnson
      darinjohnson on 27 Jun 14
       
      I'm going to give this some thought because this suggestion is opposite of what I generally try to do. I've always thought it was better for readers to close the new linked area. 
  • A typical example from usability sessions is to translate the page in Japanese (assuming your web users don’t know Japanese, e.g. with Babelfish) and provide your usability testers with a task to find something in the page of different language. If conventions are well-applied, users will be able to achieve a not-too-specific objective, even if they can’t understand a word of it.
    • darinjohnson
      darinjohnson on 27 Jun 14
       
      I saw a Tweet recently suggesting to do something similar: Turn on speech to see if you can navigate on your site without vision. Is the site usable for all?
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mollie3: Lesson Planning: The Missing Link in e-Learning Course Design - 1 views

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  • Once the appropriate stakeholders approve the IDP, instructional designers start the storyboarding process. Designers (or their managers) often expect to move effortlessly between creating an IDP and developing storyboards from it.
    • darinjohnson
      darinjohnson on 17 Jun 14
       
      I like how they use storyboards. This summer I've been trying to have my students use storyboards with elementary and middle school students, and I'm surprised how some students dislike planning. 
  • Another convention in the example requires informing the learner of the approximate time it takes it complete the instruction.
    • darinjohnson
      darinjohnson on 17 Jun 14
       
      Offering approximate time to complete an activity has been a requirement in ID courses in the past. I never know if my own speed is what I should expect of others.
  • Like any design documents, you will need to provide your instructional designers with clear instructions on how to prepare lesson plans and give them appropriate examples.
    • darinjohnson
      darinjohnson on 17 Jun 14
       
      Online instruction is the only place where I have seen models of objectives and formats for lesson plans. Hunter seems old-school to me, but I don't have a newer or better model.
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