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Thursday, 14 July 2005

Design elements in effective learning web-sites

Posted on 20:55 by Unknown
"Meaningful student learning may be dramatically enhanced as a result of vigilantly employing state-of-the-art design techniques, which reduce cognitive load. After examination of the current research in this area, recommendations are made for more innovative use of color, text, illustrations and multimedia when designing and building web-sites for online instruction." Article: The design
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Monday, 4 July 2005

Design and usability - separation anxiety

Posted on 01:02 by Unknown
At what point was usability extracted from the design process and repackaged as something very different, or even oppositional? What we now call usability has always been an essential aspect of design itself. The difference between design and art, is that design serves an explicit function. A painting can be beautiful or evocative, can have abstract meanings and solicit different responses
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