Interface Design: Structure & Style

Event ID: L10450
Info: Oct 17 • Sat • 9:00am-4:00pm • 1 mtg • UHM Sakamaki C104, Manoa MultiMedia Lab • $135
With: Maria Giudice

Effective interfaces merge content, navigation, visual design and functionality into a streamlined user experience. Learn how to approach each web project from a site-view (content sitemap), page-view (page schematics/wireframes) and user-view (task flows/use cases). The information architecture or site-structuring phase lays down a solid foundation on which the redesigned site is built. The visual design phase uses the established structure as a blueprint to create a visual language and site branding. Day is divided into hands-on information design (with a focus on wireframes and site flows) and visual design (with a focus on design strategy and best practices).

Learn collaboration methods and techniques
Create sitemaps, user flows, and wireframes
Learn ”best practices” in visual design.

Maria Giudice has pursued a vision of intelligent, elegant, human-centered design throughout her professional life. Since 1997, she has united the talented individuals at Hot Studio into a force for strategic thinking and problem solving in many media across diverse industries. In her early career, she worked with Richard Saul Wurman, who coined the phrase "information architecture." Giudice founded Hot Studio to continue her work creating systems that are both beautiful and highly functional. Over the years, she has taught design classes and workshops in schools and at conferences around the country including AIGA, Seybold, and Bay-CHI. Giudice has designed and authored several award-winning books including Elements of Web Design, a guide for print designers crossing into the web; and Web Design Essentials.<.em>