Digital and Emerging Media Design II

M 28 Aug #01

• Course intro
• Fill out class survey

• Start Type/Codes
• Start Portfolio

Th 31 Aug #02

• Type on screen

📎 “Sketching papers” grid templates (ZIP)
📎 Typography demo (ZIP)
📎 Typographic variations exercise (ZIP)

• Read the syllabus, class schedule, starting and submitting, and citations and copyright.
• iPhone mute switch, New York Times and John Gruber

Th 7 Sep #03

• Designer portfolios

• The Web’s Grain, Frank Chimero

• Start posting to Pinterest
• Show sketches, type samples, image samples, and other initial studies for Type/Codes (at least two distinct concepts)

M 11 Sep #04

• User research, personas

• Personas
• Review example designer portfolios
• How to succeed in this class

Th 14 Sep #05

• HTML/CSS responsive layout under the microscope
• HTML/CSS code open questions

📎 Responsive/contextual layout exercise (ZIP)

• Portfolio tips
• Graham Shorr on design portfolios
• (optional) Hotel Buffets, a Culprit of Food Waste, Get Downsized

M 18 Sep #06

• Signifiers, affordances, mapping, and feedback

• Norman, Design of Everyday Things, ch. 1 (principles)
• (optional) Bodega and backlash/criciticsms plus skepticism about logistics

Th 21 Sep #07

• Code Q&A

• Working File, Verbal Design (podcast)

• Introduce Late Edition

M 25 Sep #08

• Final critique for Type/Codes ✭
• Shift focus to Campus Arboretum and Late Edition

Th 28 Sep #09

• Information architecture, site maps, and documenting design

• Working File, I do Squiggles and Gradients (podcast w. transcript)
• Optional: Interview with the designers of Bloomberg Business Week’s redesign

• Give a five-minute presentation about your two proposed publications.

M 2 Oct #10

• Version control with Git

• Norman, Design of Everyday Things, ch. 6 (“Design Thinking”)

• Turn in Type/Codes

Th 5 Oct #11

• Prototyping on paper and on screens
• Usability testing

• The Skeptic’s Guide to Low-Fidelity Prototyping

M 9 Oct #12

• Speed dating critique

• Norman, Design of Everyday Things, ch. 4 (“Constraints, Discoverability, and Feedback”)

Th 12 Oct #13

• Studio  and small-group critiques

M 16 Oct #14

• Norman, Design of Everyday Things, ch. 5 (“Human Error? No, Bad Design”)

Th 19 Oct #15

Th 26 Oct #17

• Critique for Late Edition; print and pin up work

M 30 Oct #18

• Navigation systems
• Studio  and small-group critiques

• Google’s Unique Approach to Cartographic Redesigns, Justin O’Beirne

Th 2 Nov #19

• Radically Rethinking Design, Melody Kramer

• In-progress critique for Late Edition

M 6 Nov #20

• Mobile and multidevice design (demo/workshop)
• Prototyping tips
• 📎 Responsive site demo (ZIP)

• Note to Self, Introducing: The Privacy Paradox (radio show/podcast)
• Start listening to all five epsiodes of the Privacy Paradox series. If you wish, sign up for the five-day plan.

• Bring in a documentation plan (PDF) describing what you propose to turn in at the conclusion of the Late Edition project

Th 9 Nov #21

• Group critique
• Resolve concept, organization, type, color, and layout questions for Late Edition. Start moving toward prototypes.

M 13 Nov #22

• For this class, finish listening to all five epsiodes of the Privacy Paradox.
• The Internet’s Original Sin, Ethan Zuckerman

• Small group critiques

M 20 Nov #24

• Read the “Our report” section of the New York Times Journalism That Stands Apart document (scroll down)

M 27 Nov #25

• Overcast 3 Design Walkthrough

Th 30 Nov #26

M 4 Dec #27

• Visual Design is Not a Thing, Mark Boulton

Th 7 Dec #28

• Semifinal critique (share your project, as it stands, with the class) ✭