Graphic Design Studio III

GD3990A fall 2014 · GW Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
Instructor: David Ramos (davidramos@email.gwu.edu)

Schedule

Assignments and reading are listed under the class when they are due. Plan to work on a project steadily, each week, until the project is complete.

Share projects with ds3-2014@imaginaryterrain.com.

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M 8 Sep

Topics

  • Introduction

Projects

Hey!

There’s reading due for next week! It’s listed under next week’s entry.

M 15 Sep

Topics

  • Round wheels work best: learning the parts of an interactive system

Reading

Projects

M 29 Sep

Topics

  • Knobs are for turning: affordances and feedback
  • Prototyping with DPS

Projects

Reading

  • Design of Everyday Things, ch. 1

M 13 Oct

Topics

  • Stop speculating: usability testing

Projects

Reading

  • Design of Everyday Things, ch. 2

M 20 Oct

Topics

  • Paper prototyping

Projects

Reading

  • Design of Everyday Things, ch. 3

M 27 Oct

Topics

  • Everything in its place: information architecture

Projects

M 3 Nov

Topics

  • Designing for people: personas and scenarios

Reading

M 10 Nov

Topics

  • “Never ask anyone what they want”: user research

Projects

Reading

M 17 Nov

Topics

  • Hansel and Gretel: navigation systems

Projects

  • Write one persona, to be shared with the class

M 24 Nov

Topics

M 1 Dec

Topics

  • Earning and retaining trust

Reading

  • Design of Everyday Things, ch. 5

M 8 Dec

Topics

  • Pocket-sized Internet: thinking about mobile

From class

M 15 Dec

Projects

  • Final critique