Key Terms and Ideas, Spring 2009

"BETA" versions,
"round" character (vs flat or diffuse),
Web site "concept,"
"design scheme,"
a "preamble."
liquid design,

Online readings about usability: Jakob Nielsen, Shirley Kaiser, and Dirk Knemeyer.

Usability,
Meaning vs. Representation,
Screen Real Estate,
Resolution,
People as Users,
Differentiation,
Commoditization,

Contrast
Repetition,
Alignment,
Proximity

Color "Dimension"
Hue
"Complementary" Colors,
Saturation
Proportion

"topic/angle,"
"a condition of glocalized panlocality."

MENUS: Introspective Terms,
Granularity,
Internal and External links,
Mystery Meat Navigation,
Airport Navigation,
Audience-Focused Navigation,
Forms vs. Meanings

Read WIlliams and Tollett Chapter 10

anti-aliasing,
GIF vs. JPEG,
raster vs. vector images,

William Gibson 57-, Donna Haraway 28-

dystopia,
cultural work,
displacement,

cyborg,
cyborg politics

eros (erotic),
ontoloty,
Platonism,
monads (monodology),
philosophical significance of the body.

identity (formation),
windows ,
play,
community

Timothy Allan Jackson 347 -, Brenda Laurel 109-

Anthropological Space,
Earth (space) ,
Territorial Space,
Commodity Space,
Knowledge Space,
subjectivity vs. indentity,
Collective Intelligence

Lessig's Free Culture: Intro, Intro to "Piracy," Chapter 1

information economy,
public domain,
free culture vs. permission culture,
culture,
property vs. piracy,
intellectual property,
"if value, then right" theory

intended and unintended consequences
created experience vs. functional transparency
individuyal effectiveness vs. social consequence
relationships of knowledge and power
identity
history
communities
aesthetics

richness,
action-oriented Web sites,
ethos,
pathos,
community, mystery meat navigation,
non-physical (virtual) audiences,
visual hierarchy,