Web Design for Print Designers
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- Daithi0
One thing that I'd recommend teaching (or asking them to consider) is how people consume information on screen - not broken up in pages like print or instances like advertisements, but in a much more fluid flow. Understanding their own work as a reaction to this more loose structure is an important distinction for me.
Print and other real-world formats have more implicit function tied to and dictated by how and where they are seen: books are for reading; posters are for announcements etc. The web typically requires more explicit signposting for intended use, and for all uses there are established paradigms that can be used or subverted. Once they get their head around that distinction, I've seen these ideas fall into place for colleagues who are attempting to cross over, as yours are.