NPA Web Design – Level 5

What is Web Design?

Increasingly we are accessing our information on electronic devices through the internet . How the information is displayed and how we interact with and how we interact with the information is built on Web Design principles. Web design is being able to visualise, design and create the pages we interact with every day on our phones, tablets laptops and TV’s etc using HTML, JavaScript and manipulating graphics.

What skills are developed?

Creativity
Problem Solving
Technical Skills
Mathematical
Logical Thinking
Motivation
Analysis
Perseverance
Attention to Detail
Literacy

What kind of person does it take?

You will need:

A bit of creativity to create engaging designs and layouts
Be able to break up large problems into smaller manageable tasks
Attention to detail to spot mistakes
Composure, to take the time to get things right
Independence, to manage and organise your workload
Ambition, to add more complex features to your work

Horizons – where can this subject take you?

There are few businesses today who do not have a web presence of some kind and for each of these businesses there is someone who understands Web Design — from the highly skilled company web designers, independent web design specialists to small companies needing some additional expertise, web design skills are much in demand.

Career options are huge but offers opportunities in:

Games Design, Retail, Sales and Marketing, local Government, Manufacturing, Finance Sector, Education. Creatives industries and many others.

Pathways – how can I make progression?

School

N5 Computing Science and Higher Computing Science