Design and Interactive Digital Media

According to the author:

An effective creative questionnaire allows you to gain relevant, focused, and helpful design information without taking up a lot of the client’s time.

To find out how to create an effective questionnaire read the article @

http://sixrevisions.com/productivity/create_web_design_questions/

According to the author of this article:

Your design can only be as good as the brief you worked from. The best projects are borne from creative briefs that are open enough to inspire ideas, while being specific enough to feel workable.

To find out how to create the ‘Ultimate Design Brief’ simply access the article @

http://freelanceswitch.com/clients/the-ultimate-design-brief/

This site has a heap of excellent information on creating design briefs. Information includes:

• Tips for Creating Graphic Design Briefs
• Client Questionnaires and Creating Web Design Briefs
• Creative Brief Templates and Tools

This resource may be accessed @

http://freelanceswitch.com/clients/master-creative-briefs/

An interesting article focusing on font and color choices in a website and what these choices may say about the owner of the site. Definitely woth a read @

http://sixrevisions.com/infographics/what-your-web-design-says-about-you-infographic/

Some excellent tips and tricks from Mike Smith on how to keep your creativity ‘sharp’. Definitely worth a read @

http://www.pvmgarage.com/2010/05/10-exercises-designers-can-do-to-keep-their-creativity-sharp/

This article discusses “designer myopia”: the all-too-common phenomenon whereby, despite our best intentions, we sometimes design with a nearsightedness that results in websites and applications that please ourselves and impress our peers but don’t meet user and business goals. If you are serious about design this article is a must read @

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/02/14/designer-myopia-stop-designing-for-ourselves/

‘In darts, hitting the bulls-eye is harder to do than hitting any other part of the dartboard. This is because the bulls-eye is the smallest target. This same principle can also apply to touch targets on mobile devices.’ Good article focusing on mobile touchscreen target sizes. Article may be found @

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/02/21/finger-friendly-design-ideal-mobile-touchscreen-target-sizes/

This tutorial focuses on how to extend the Unity3D’s editor so you can make better use of it in your project.Tutorial may be accessed @

http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/how-to-add-your-own-tools-to-unitys-editor/