Junior Studio

10 Sept.

Topics

Introduction

Projects

• Start Finding neighborhood boundaries

17 Sept.

Topics

Explaining ideas/expressing intentions: prototyping + documentation

Projects

• Start Tools ★

Reading

For this class:

• Alissa Walker: Why I Write About Design Now
• Wired: When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide
• New York Times: Why Waiting in Line is Torture

24 Sept.

Topics

Natural History Museum field trip

• Meet at 9:25 am sharp outside the Mall entrance to the museum. Bring a sketchbook and a pen/pencil. You may want to bring a camera or a good cameraphone.
• You will be able to leave at 12 noon if you need to make other classes.
• If you can, please download and install Bluebrain’s National Mall app/album and the National Park Service Mall app.

Projects

• Start Museum observations

Reading

• Start Kolko, ch. 1 + 2

1 Oct.

Topics

• Personas and usability testing

Projects

• Present Museum observations

Reading

(As always, we will discuss this material in this class.)

• Bret Victor: A brief rant on the future of interaction design
• Finish Kolko, ch. 1 + 2

8 Oct.

Topics

Semantic typography: HTML and CSS

Projects

• Semifinal critique for Finding neighborhood boundaries
• Start History ★

15 Oct.

Topics

Describing design: HTML and CSS II

Projects

• Final critique for Finding neighborhood boundaries

22 Oct.

Topics

Shaping possibilities: Processing as intro to programming

Projects

For next week, read through and try the Processing tutorials (your work is not graded):

• Getting started
• Drawing
• Color (if you’re getting the other parts)

Long-term

Every week, continue work on long-term projects

5 Nov.

Topics

• Elections through the IxD lens

Projects

• Semi-final critique for Tools
• Start Election Day ★

12 Nov.

Topics

• Drawing with data in Processing

Projects

• Final critique for Tools

Reading

• Richard Grefé and Jessica Friedman Hewitt: How Design Can Save Democracy (see also the interactive feature)

19 Nov.

Topics

• Design in the fourth dimension: introducing JavaScript
• Guest speakers, Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein

Reading

• Brennan Center: Better Ballots (read PDF report)

26 Nov.

Topics

• On deadline: DPS and simple publishing workflows

3 Dec.

Topics

• Give it a push and it keeps going: templates and generative systems
• Getting the job done: simple interactivity in DPS

Projects

• Final critique for History

10 Dec.

Topics

• Semi-final critique
• Guest speakers, wals studios

17 Dec.

Topics

Junior reviews