information design

course sites, blogs, and bentley university programs . . .

Please feel free to visit the course sites, blogs, external Web sites, and programs listed on this page. I currently teach these courses at Bentley University, Waltham, MA.

The blogs contribute specifically and generally to my teaching and research. My external sites devoted to photography give you a sense of my passion for the camera.

The programs at Bentley give you an idea of where I spend all my time when not involved with family or photography.

buchholz course sites at bentley university:

Expand and contract course descriptions as directed beneath the hyperlink to each course.

• IDCC 370 Web Design I: Principles and Practices (click to visit the site)

  Click here to expand and contract the IDCC 370 description:

  A revolutionary development in communication, the World Wide Web offers unprecedented access to mass audiences. This introductory course focuses on the principles and practices necessary to create effective pages for the Web. Students receive instruction in writing hypertext documents, designing Web pages, authoring well-formed and valid XHTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), while meeting a variety of technical challenges.Web Design I focuses on purpose, scope, and audience considerations in page design; writing informative and persuasive on-line documents and designing coherent, portable, navigable, and interactive pages. Students learn to employ the fundamental principles of color theory, typography, layout and graphic design for the Web. Combining lab, lecture, and discussion, Web Design I instructs students in the best practices of electronic design to create their own interactive Web sites, accessible to a worldwide audience.

• IDCC 380 Web Design II: Information Architecture and Site Management (click to visit the site)

  Click here to expand and contract the IDCC 380 description:

  Web Design II builds upon the knowledge and experience you acquired in Web Design I. Web Design II develops further the generally accepted concepts and applications of information architecture, human factors, and usability in creating and managing Web sites. Topics include page layout and design, navigation systems, interface design, Web graphics and multimedia, interactivity, writing for the Web, site architecture, management, and maintenance. Students will work with high-end Web authoring tools to create various site elements. By the end of the course, student teams will design and create fully functional prototype Web sites.

• HF 740 Information Architecture: User Centered Design for the WWW (Blackboard course; click to visit the site)

  Click here to expand and contract the HF 740 description:

  HF 740 Applies human factors design principles, strategies, and best practices in creating various types of Web sites. Incorporates the information and knowledge needs of users, clients, product design teams, management and other constituencies involved in creating, implementing, maintaining and using information on the World Wide Web. Topics include the user-centered design process, form and function, technology and usability issues, site types and organization, information categorization and labeling systems, global and local navigation systems, searching and browsing systems, accessibility, interactivity, page layout, template design, prototyping, modularity, scalability, maintenance and management. Students learn to identify for different audiences the value of using information architecture principles and best practices to design highly functional Web sites and Web applications. Includes individual and group projects.

blogs:

• IDCC 370 and IDCC 380 home pages both include an announcements blog.

• Semantic Weblog
  

  This blog consists of article snippets, reflections, and links to substantial or topical materials regarding the Semantic Web, the Resource Description Framework (RDF), and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).

• WJB photogravure
  

  This blog is simply a collection of photographs shared with family, colleagues, students, and friends.

• Picasa Public Photography Albums

  This site is a collection of public photographs.

  
  
• Flickr Public Photography Sets and Collections

  This site is a collection of public photographs.

programs at bentley university:

• Department of Information Design and Corporate Communication
• Information Design Certificate Program
• Master's in Human Factors in Information Design
• Design and Usability Center (DUC)
  

As of Friday, September 4, 2009 9:35 AM
information design copyright © 1998 by William J. Buchholz
This document conforms to W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD
specifications and is XHTML+RDFa valid .