Web Design Curriculum and Syllabus Based on Web Design Practice and Students’ Prior Knowledge

Web Design Curriculum and Syllabus Based on Web Design Practice and Students' Prior Knowledge

10.28945/2961 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Tanja Krunic ◽

Ljiljana Ruzic-Dimitrijevic ◽

Branka Petrovic ◽

Robert Farkas

Keyword(s):

Prior Knowledge ◽

Role Models ◽

Web Design ◽

Study Group ◽

Design Practice ◽

Privacy And Security ◽

The World ◽

Set Up ◽

Novi Sad ◽

Academic Year

The Advanced Technical School from Novi Sad set up a completely new study group for web design in 2004. The paper explains its organization and gives course descriptions. When it was established, there were not many similar groups in the world exclusively dealing with web design, whose programs could serve as role models, hence the curriculum and syllabus had to be based on our own experience. They cover inevitable web issues like usability, user-oriented web design, accessibility, privacy and security, which are briefly discussed in the paper. The purpose of the research referring to web accessibility and privacy presented in one of the sections was to help create the two documents. The students' prior knowledge was also an important parameter in their writing. The curriculum and syllabus have been updated recently, and the improved version given herein will be in use from the next academic year.

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Design and Women's Expectations of WWW Experience

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-815-4.ch029 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 178-184

Author(s):

Noemi Maria Sadowska

Keyword(s):

Design Theory ◽

World Wide ◽

Web Design ◽

Design Team ◽

Online Interaction ◽

Design Practice ◽

Online Technologies ◽

Women's Participation ◽

The World

Development of the World Wide Web (WWW) prompted a flurry of research investigating women’s participation in the creation, production, and use of online technologies. Initial studies focused on trends in female users’ participation rather than investigating the role of design in these processes (Pattanaik, 1999). Web design practice was rarely a focus. This article presents findings from my PhD research, which applies feminist and design theory to critique Web design. Focusing on a commercial UK based women’s portal, BEME.com, I examine the value of Web design practice to female users and their expectations of online interaction. I describe the type of experience BEME.com intended for its female users, as outlined by the design team during interviews. Interviews with the production team were conducted two years after the design was completed, making them reflective in nature. Alongside interviews with the intended target audience, the aim is to highlight disparities between design intentions and female users’ expectations.

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Interpreting the Female User

Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-096-7.ch007 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 154-177

Author(s):

Noemi Maria Sadowska

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Web Design ◽

Design Guidelines ◽

Status Quo ◽

Feminist Critique ◽

Design Practice ◽

Web Designers ◽

Female User ◽

Political Origins

This chapter presents an investigation into the commercial WWW portal, “BEME. com,” as an example of gendered Web design targeting female users. It argues that Web designers need to be aware of processes implicated in such gendered outcomes. Thus, an analysis of the BEME.com design process is used to identify threats and opportunities in designing for female online users in order to formulate appropriate design guidelines. The chapter outlines several underlying factors that illuminate these processes, and their social, cultural, and political origins. It is argued that the prevalence and accessibility of WWW makes it a powerful vehicle of change both within design practice and in terms of gender structures more widely. It is in this context that the author seeks to contribute to the existing research by offering a feminist critique of Web design, arguing that Web designers have an opportunity and a responsibility to affect and effect changes to a gendered status quo.

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