This site is in violation of number 6.
Framing your project like a story can help the reader/or who ever is trying to understand your design, follow through it in an engaging way. By offering a beginning, middle, and end, it helps the reader connect with the final product more, after they have understood what exactly went into the process of making it. Making things is a process, one that can be documented in a story, as stories have climaxes, beginnings, and rising actions, similar is the process of making a project. There must of been times in the process of the project where you were not sure whether you could make a feature, or felt like trashing it, and conflicts like these are interesting to users. It invokes a sense of emotion in the reader than can't be brought out by just delivering the product as is without any prior back-story.
A good way to establish hierarchy within design, is to make sure that you get the reader to look at, what you want them to look
at first (the title screen, and then the call-to-action.) Emphasis can be stressed by size, weight, color, style and placement.
(also I thought this reading was awesome, the way they utilized the romantic phrases sprinkled here and there to emphasize
typography elements was so creative.)
This site is a good example of sucessful hierarchy
The problem that this website is trying to solve is that: there are not enough resources out there to point people from marginalized background towards physical areas where there is free education, or there is not a site that finds all the online programs that help with free education.
My audience is going to be people from low-income families, particularly students or the parents of these students looking for resources
Khan Academy, IXL Math, eDX
"Education for Everyone." "For Lovers of Learning" I'm thinking something holistic like this is more attractive than something like "Affordable education" because from what I've researched, no one wants to be associated with charitable learning centers- unless it is already established for a while (e.g. Khan Academy, YMCA, etc)
"Find your study match" "Look for centers around you" I think that maybe there should be an option for the user to find out what type of center they would like to look for first before they end up on the page to find specifically which center they would like. Types of centers: non-profits near me, online academies, online degrees, financial-aid friendly institutions (there is a better way to word that but it is not coming to mind.)
How well the website is able to navigate the user around the site (If I conduct a study and get at least a 70% sucess rate) If I can get a fully functioning website thats visually appealing by the end of the semeseter.
Heading font: Zalando Sans
Paragraph font: Montserrat