Web Design & Production Foundations

Thoreau: “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.”

Class meets Thursdays, 6-9 pm, online using Adobe Connect.

Week 1: January 8

Introductions Web design, an introduction Week 1 notes Read/watch before next Thursday

Lab Skills survey Review software

Week 2: January 15

Web Technology Overview (alphabet soup!) Multimedia: text and images Week 2 notes Read/watch before next Thursday

Lab

Week 3: January 22

UX and Design Web design samples Week 3 notes Read/watch before next Thursday

Lab

Week 4: January 29

Pitches Competitive analysis Week 4 notes Read/watch before next Thursday

Lab Intro to Photoshop

Week 5: February 5

Quiz tonight Personas Week 5 notes Read/watch before next Thursday

Lab Photoshop : cropping

Week 6: February 12

Interfaces: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Information Architecture Week 6 notes Read/watch before next Thursday

Lab Project work

Week 7: February 19

Planning and Building a Project Site Maps, Wireframes and Storyboards Week 7 notes Read/watch before next Thursday

Lab Photoshop : resizing

Week 8: February 26

Making your sites “social” Week 8 notes Read/watch before next Thursday

Lab Project Research domain names

Week 9: March 5

Legal issues Week 9 notes

Lab Project

Week 10: March 12

Lecture: Where are We Going? The Future (RIA, bandwidth, video, interactivity, data, mobile, metadata) Week 10 notes

Final quiz covers all material Project presentations