Resources

=[|A tasty MoMA Re-Design] Helpful Resources= Please include:
 * link to resources
 * general description (name, author, topics)
 * brief commentary (relevance to course)

Websites:
[|Pascal Blanchet website]: This is one of my favourite artist collections. In relationship to this project, I think this site is not an academic website. However, it shows a lot of characteristics that represent creativity and original. As the guests mentioned in class, they expect to seperate the department, characterize it from the university style. The informal colour, texture and visually random placement of navigation bars should work well for that purpose. I overall recommend the visual style. Also the button thumbnails would be a good way to show some of the student works.

[|AisleOne Projects]: Another collection of mine. They have great typography compositions. I recommend this site for this project because the hidden navigation would work well for organizing a lot of information. They put the most recent work/news at the top in large format pictures. It makes the site more welcoming and attractive. There's a special area for feedback and student work uploading. It's a very engaging website.
 * ps:** i just found [|this website] looks very much alike the visual art website we were showed last class.

VISA courses I realize this is a very obvious link but I thought maybe other people might be working with the idea that VISA is like design (which I did). Because my group is working with degree requirements I suddenly realized that they might have different paths than we do to get to the end result of obtaining their degree. I'm not sure if anyone else is looking at their degree requirements but it might be helpful to see what kind of things they're doing in their program. This link is really just as a reminder on the off chance that anyone else forgot like me (or in case I forget again!).

Visualizing Information for Advocacy I got this link from my Design for Public Awareness class. It's about information design and ideas on how to design for your audience. It's quite visual so it's not a pain to read. Even if you don't use it for this class, which really you could, I think it's a really useful package.

Firebug In case you guys haven't already got this. It's a really useful plug-in for firefox that lets you look at the code for any website. It uses tabs to separate the HTML and CSS and let's you scroll over things to locate the code for that specific part of the website. Definitely recommended!

Ringvemedia.com A site that mainly uses background images and simple navigation that our group used with firebug to check out some useful coding. Here by popular demand!

[|Tryit Editor v1.4] This is a good resource for finding and trying out codes. When looking at codes, it allows you to edit/play with the given code and previews your changes in the window beside. Here's a tutorial on [|nesting].

[|JQuery] Download plugins and learn about incorporating JQuery into the website.

[|MoMA Re-Design] A great information architecture example of the MoMA website. A great way to handle large amounts of information.

Videos:
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 * Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams**

Visit Youtube link directly [|here] Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon. He died in 2008 from cancer and this was his last lecture. He specialized in virtual reality and there are some interesting projects mentioned and shown in the vide that his students have worked on, but the real lecture is much more than that. He gives advice on life and what your childhood dreams can help you achieve. Definitely worth watching.