STAA Conference, Washington DC, January 2002
Graphic style
- Design aesthetic and minimalist systems
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- Fonts are graphics!
- Create visually pleasing displays.
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- (Don't forget the effect of white space)
- Bhutan has an elegant site at http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~bhutan/test002/index.php3
- Check out the National Museum of Wildlife Art: http://www.wildlifeart.org/ArtTales/index.html
- The Orinoco Museum: http://www.orinoco.org/
- And the Seattle Art Museum: http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/
- Eliminate information which is irrelevant or distracting (Levi)
- Focus on content
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- Avoid baroque embellishments, blinking texts or animated graphics.
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- See this lovely site on the problems kittens have with their kidneys (more on bells and whistles)
- Be wary of programming that requires only the most recent browsers
- Be consistent
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- Conform to uniform conventions for layout, format, navigation, etc.
Red check marks highlight points that will be of interest to established sites as well as new ones.
