Open projects
GDES-315 spring 2017 · American University Design
Instructor: David Ramos ( ramos@american.edu · office hours )
You must complete 10 points worth of open projects.
After completing a project:
- Spend five minutes talking about your experience during show and tell.
- Email the instructor
- Schedule a conversation with the instructor, during office hours if possible.
Points over the required number will help your grade, and you can seek permission to substitute them for creating a portfolio site if you already have a site. (Speak with the instructor if you would like to pursue either of those courses.) Please do not choose options that you have already read or completed.
Complete a course on Lynda.com
- Fundamentals of programming with JavaScript (7 points)
- JavaScript Essential Training on Lynda.com (15 points)
- Foundations of UX: Accessibility (5 points)
- Web Accessibility Principles (5 points)
Read a short book (7 points)
- JavaScript for Web Designers
- Git for Humans
- SASS for Web Designers
- Just Enough Research
- Responsive Web Design
- The Elements of Content Strategy
- On Web Typography
- Mobile First
- Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles
- CSS3 for Web Designers
- HTML5 for Web Designers
Read a book
- Bill Moggridge’s Designing Interaction or Designing Media (15 points, or 3 points a chapter)
- Thinking with Type (15 points)
- The Elements of Typographic Style (15 points)
- How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul (15 points)
Read an article or report
- The New York Times Innovation Report (7 points)
- The New York Times 2020 report (1 point)
- Overseas Surveillance in an Interconnected world (8 points) by the Brennan Center for Justice
Watch a film/show
- Abstract: The Art of Design (3 points each episode)
Visit a museum
- Universal Design at the American History Museum (2 points)
- The Philips Collection (4 points)
- Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art at the National Gallery (2 points)