Week 1: What is the WWW
Brief Your task is to work alone or in a pair to design a news website for a New Zealand audience. The solution must enable users to perform the tasks or reach the information that you have identified and prioritized for the audience (user needs). The solution should be visually and functionally engaging, usable, and suitable within current information consumption patterns online. While a competent technical level is required, the emphasis is placed on well-crafted communication, visual and user experience , rather than how technically complex the submitted solution is. The “look and feel” of the interface, the tone of language and hierarchy of material should be informed by the needs of the user as well as critically reflected upon in constructive critiques facilitated within the studio context. Consider the relevance of your proposal within the context of informing people about their community and their world. Consider semiotics of your design, its broad rhetorical sty