Monday, July 9, 2007

Let's Talk about .. Web UI Design

Let's start the first posting of this blog with the UI design for web page and web application. This step is one of all steps that makes problem with the many IT consultant companies. Not because of the hard of creating, but the style to make the user impressive with the result is very difficult to reach. About three or more times to change something is the normal case. So what the user interface is, it's the display that user has some interaction with.

The important target of the most UI is the user friendly. The good application shouldn't make the user confuse when using it. Even the duty of design is owned by the graphic designer, but talking among the user, programmer, and graphic designer is necessary task. The requirement of UI design can be got this meeting.

There are 4 important things that are vital for the designer to know before starting the job.

First, Color Palette - There are many lavels of the color palette we can define depended on the organization and the users. For example, the main color palette, the supporting color palette, the alert color palette, etc.
Second, the font type - The font type for the content should be the same for the whole web site.
Third, the resolution - Because in the past, there are many kinds of resolution people used. But in the present, the 1024 x 768 pixels is mostly used.
Forth, the page layout - We should start to write it in the paper, declare each part to each location. The header is normally located on top of the page. The nevigation menu is where we place the main function of site. The transaction area, which contains the site tools, is the source of the tools that facilitate the users to browse, search, or call some web applications. The size of content area is up to the requirement of users and up to how much the information will be
displayed.

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