GDES-220 fall 2023 / David Ramos, American University Design
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Intro to interaction design, HTML/CSS, and this course
August 25
Start Recipe
Monday
Here’s what we’ll cover in Monday’s class:
- About this course
- Early days of the web
Projects
- Start Recipe
Thursday
- Intro to HTML and CSS
Demo 1 files: Intro demo (ZIP)
Demo 2 files: Basic site (ZIP), Shape of Design excerpt (text)
Reading
Complete this reading by Thursday.
- Duckett, HTML & CSS, ch. 1 (available for download)
- Don’t Fear the Internet, HTML (4 min.) and Starting from Scratch (7 min.) videos
- Norman Doors: Don’t Know Whether to Push or Pull? Blame Design, 99% Invisible — watch video (5 min., captioned) or read article