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Reflecting on Your Process
Before your group submits the newsletter and flyer/brochure you designed for your client, I want each of you to reflect on the process you used to complete these tasks. Open up a new Word doc and answer the following questions in essay form. You will have 20 minutes to reflect on your process and on your groupmates' work.
When you have finished the reflection, please print it up and move on to the FreeWrite activity below while everyone else finishes their reflections.
- Briefly describe 2-3 things you learned about design (if there are that many) working on this project.
- How did your client's needs inform your design?
- How did audience considerations and CRAP principles figure into your design?
- If you had more time, what more/else would you do for the designs your group came up with?
- Describe the contributions of your groupmates to this project and describe your own contribution.
- What else, if anything, do I need to know about your work/experience/final product?
FreeWrite Activity
Your homework was, in part, to think about the following questions about the website you're designing for your client:
- What information should that site include?
- What information should be included on separate links?
- How will your client's members and potential members use the site?
- How will this site balance the need to keep your client's members updated about upcoming events, meetings, etc, with the need to provide some permanent information about the organization?
- How will the organization and design of this site reflect the personality, ethos, and/or image your client wishes to promote/display?
- What is their image?
Take ten minutes before you meet with your group to "freewrite" answers to at least three of the questions above.
Web Layout Activity
Take out the notecards you designed to illustrate a layout for your client's website. Compare organization and content, taking the best elements of each person's design and incorporating them, where possible, into a single website.
When you have finished figuring out organization and content, talk about the image you want the site to project and the elements that will create that image (pictures, fonts, colors, features, etc).
Web Drafting for the rest of the class period.
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