Week 12

4/16 – 4/19

Phoebe presents on Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead? – Hito Steyerl and we discuss & watch examples of Hito Steyrl’s work
Working in medium sized groups (4 people), present your project progress to each other. I’ll go around and meet with everyone one on one.
Time permitting: Watch The Internet with a Human Face

Based on your feedback, decide on one concept for your project. Design a draft of the project for Friday. (Enough to create a clickable prototype in class)
Reading: The Woman Who Gave Macintosh a Smile / Susan Kare
Simran is the discussion leader

Finish creating your Mad Lib websites. Your websites should be able to pull data from each student’s API. This can be done in a random way, or based on user input. It will likely be easiest to use a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to insert the data from the API into your web page. We’ll discuss several techniques in class for how to achieve this.
Make sure to handle errors in the $.get function by using the fail callback in the example provided in the Paper doc in case any of the endpoints return bad data.

Simran presents on Susan Kare
Review userflows and wireframes
Look at an example of how a product designer might discuss his/her work and present their process
Take a step back and map out the userflow of your project. Then, working in Sketch, decide on something to compare (for example, navigation for your project, or a general layout). Create two clickable prototypes testing out this feature. Invite a partner(s) to test out your comparison. Record your findings and your exploration on a single page website discussing what you tested, why, and how it might impact your final design.
Work on project

Find two job descriptions for jobs you might consider. Find one that you think is well written, and one that is poorly written.
Reading: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
Gavin is the discussion leader
Continue developing your project. Begin programming.

Core Interaction