Elements and Performance Criteria
- Clarify project requirements
- Discuss, with relevant personnel, the design specifications to clarify target user, audience and purpose of interactive media products
- Identify text content and media assets to be integrated into user interfaces
- Determine file output format suitable for the delivery platform of interactive media products
- Generate ideas
- Research interactive media product user interfaces, designs, images, artwork and other creative sources that may inspire design ideas
- Collect logos, trademarks and other relevant information that may influence or be incorporated into design ideas
- Obtain and record copyright clearance, if required, for images used in designs
- Use sketches and concepts in specifications to generate a range of technically feasible and creative design ideas
- Present interface design ideas to relevant personnel for discussion and feedback
- Plan approach
- Select final design, incorporating any feedback from relevant personnel
- Identify a range of appropriate industry-standard graphics software
- Discuss and select graphics software, with relevant personnel, to meet specified outcomes
- Explore a range of typographical and visual design elements that could be used in development of interface designs
- Produce user interfaces
- Use graphics software to develop structure for user interfaces based on final design concepts
- Source or create and integrate all graphic interactive components
- Apply visual design and communication principles to development of user interfaces
- Apply principles of user-centred design and standards for accessibility to development of user interfaces
- Document styles for text and presentation for use in style sheets and templates or themes
- Save user interfaces in an appropriate output format that satisfies technical parameters
- Adopt safe ergonomic practices when using equipment for long periods of time
- Finalise user interfaces