CSS provides us a way to give the web browser hints about how we want the content of our website to render. We’ll start working with CSS by using it to style typographic compositions.

Visual design makes our work, aesthetic, clear, and usable. We’ll start exploring some principles of typography and layout in this class. Keep in mind that theory will only take your design work so far. You have to produce work, look at it, and try again in order to actually improve.

We’ll focus on Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for iOS (phones and tablets) for now, with an emphasis on the navigation models in iOS.

We’ll focus on how Google’s Material Design system works on Android devices (primarily phones) and explore the primary navigation model.

We’ll extend our evaluative research toolbox to include heuristic analysis.

Motion should be used to add clarity to a user interface, and then sparingly and with nuance. A little bit goes a long way.

Exploration is key to creating beautiful user interfaces. We don’t see design in our mind, we perceive it with our eyes, and interact with it with our hands. Until a possibility is down on paper or screen, it’s not a possibility you’ve considered. Give yourself as many possibilities to choose from as you can.