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For Jan 22, Thursday

We'll be meeting in N17 in the Main Building.

Bring your computer!

Jan 22, Thursday

For Jan 26, Monday

Jan 26, Monday

For Jan 29, Thursday

Jan 29, Thursday

For Feb 2, Monday

  • Finish building your List Poetry page and upload it to your class site, linking to it from 'interactive-1/index.html'.
  • Complete Codecademy Learn CSS. The First 5 Lessons, Starting with 'Syntax and Selectors' and ending with 'The Box Model'. You don't need to do the projects or Quizes. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete. You might need to take a few seperate screenshots.

Feb 2, Monday

For Feb 5, Thursday

  • Make Progress on Musica Viva
  • Complete the rest of Codecademy Learn CSS Starting with 'Display and Positioning' through 'Typography'. You don't need to do the projects or Quizes. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete. You might need to take a few seperate screenshots.

Feb 5, Thursday

For Feb 9, Monday

  • Make progress on Musica Viva.
  • Pick two different sets of three connected Wikipedia articles. Pay special attention to how their connections modify their meaning.
  • Complete CSS Flexbox and Grid lessons on Codecademy Learn CSS. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete. You might need to take a few seperate screenshots.

Feb 9, Monday

For Feb 12, Thursday

  • Finish Musica Viva.
  • Complete Project 1 — Step 1 → For your chosen articles, draw 3 different sketches of ideas how you could present them on your site. Pay attention to navigation and structure, focus less on aesthetics. We'll talk about your sketches on Thursday, make sure you have enough to be able to communicate your intention!

Feb 12, Thursday

  • Read and discuss on Grid World
  • Talk about Web Fonts — example
  • Review Musica Viva, make sure you've uploaded your examples to your class site and email me a link to them.
  • Review Sketches for Project 1

For Feb 16, Monday

  • Complete Project 1 — Step 2 → For your chosen direction, refine your sketches into hi-fidelity designs. These designs should look like screenshots of the eventual website. Consult Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts for typefaces you might use in your designs.
  • Complete the CSS Transitions lesson on Codecademy Learn CSS. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete. You might need to take a few seperate screenshots.

Feb 16, Monday

  • Lecture on CSS Transitions and Animations.
  • Review Designs for Project 1 and start building.
  • Worktime on starting to build wikizine

For Feb 19, Thursday

Make progress starting to build your site

Feb 19, Thursday

For Feb 23, Monday

Continue to work on building Project 1. Monday is the 33% check in deadline, by then you should have your pages made and your content in your html, even if the styling has a ways to go yet.

Feb 23. Monday

  • 33% Build Check In.
  • Make progress building your site

For Feb 26, Thursday

  • Continue to make progress on Project 1

Feb 26, Thursday

For March 2, Monday

  • Finish Project 1 and upload it to your class site prior to class.

March 2, Monday

Final Crit Project 1! Our order is as follows:

Mika
Ana
Cathy
Samiyah
Joe
Yiting
Saif
Sarah
Karina

For March 5, Thursday

Find three examples of unusual or satisfying interactions online, on an app, or somewhere else digital. What do you like about them, or what annoys you about them. How do they subvert the expectations of what that action normally does?

March 5, Thursday

For March 10, Monday

Complete Project 2 Step 2.

Complete 3 sketches of an interface showcasing your chosen interaction, at least one affirming the interaction, and one subverting it. In your sketches, consider how the site will react to the user interacting with it first and foremost.

Also complete Codecademy Introduction to Javascript: Variables and Codecademy Introduction to Javascript: Conditionals. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete for both.

March 10, Monday

  • Review Sketches of interaction showcases.
  • Begin working on hi fidelity designs for our showcase.
  • Demos of things that are in people's sketches.

For March 12, Thusday

  • Complete Project 2 Step 3, design two different visual directions for your interaction showcase (in Figma, Sketch, Indesign, whatever. These designs should be hi fidelity, we'll review them in small groups on Thursday.
  • Complete Codecademy Introduction to Javascript: Functions. Email me a screen shot of Syllabus Panel with all the steps complete.