We Meet the third Saturday of each month at the Sydney Mechanics Institute 240 Pitt St Sydney from 2 pm

What we did

January 2015

Our first meeting for the year.

This month we had a look at design and layout. I found an article on how the principles of  open plan design which Frank Llyod Wrights Prairie school of architicture could be applied to website design. We discussed the value of an open plan, minimalist design as it relates to web design.

We then looked at some of the layout ideas in a book "Principles of Beautiful Web Design" and discussed the ways in which we could direct peoples attention to the content of the pages. We looked at how we could use content as the navigation with examples from Google Maps and sale sites using the product as the link. We also discused the use of white space and how to use gaps to direct attention to the content.

Steve South

Sig Leader