Introductory Questions

1. I hope to learn sufficient coding to create, maintain, and customize websites of my own for personal and professional use, primiarily to display my portfolio online. I also look forward to learning how to incorporate more user-friendly elements in all my work, particularly my image-making and designs made for the screen.
2. I expect designing for screen to have many more interactive elements that must be considered. Designing for paper requires more consideration of how the eye interacts with the image, but with the screen there must be ways for a user to navigate and understand the material presented in an efficient, well-designed way.
3. This website here presents beautiful, high-definition photos of travel destinations in a tight and colorful tile pattern that allows the user to scroll through their options.
4. This website here for the New Yorker has a clear and accessible menu of options and immediately communicates the most recent or most popular bit of news on its front page. The site is all about gathering information quickly and displaying it simply and effectively.
5. This website here has one purpose: to show the distance from Earth to Mars, and to show the distance in a way that is comprehensible. The concept is simple but it works very well, using pixels and a sleek, pleasant animation to really bring it to life. It's easy and accessible and plays up a good concept.