- Prepare for Quest
- Submit menu board (if you haven’t already)
- Complete PHP tutorials and challenge for Friday.
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April 2 – Simulated Client Project
- Review Questions
- Character mapping from the “ethnographies” we read.
- Introduce Simulated Client Project
- Meet with teams for final project
- Team 1: Johnna, Heng-Hao, Mariana (stop specie profiling)
- Team 2: Stephanie, Olivia, Kim, Claire (open communication to build community)
- Team 3: Sean, Ashley, Hanye (consider ethics of eating species who live in the community)
- Team 4: Deandrea, Tsai-Ning, Ben, Nick Z. (redefine housing standards, especially in rural areas)
- Team 5: Nick L., Kelsi, Sydney, Alyssa (improve citizen safety training)
Homework
- Set up Slack channel for team (make sure it is public and that you invite Rebecca and all team members)
- Create personas for Simulated Client Project. All students must create at least one persona. For consistency, use the Persona Core Poster introduced in the reading assigned last week.
- Review the answer key to the Products Page and the answer key to the Landing Page. Compare your own solution. Come to class on Friday with questions.
Mar 28 – PHP
Homework for Monday, April 6
- Familiarize yourself with PHP with either: PHP Essential Training (Lynda), Learning PHP (Lynda), and/or W3Schools PHP Tutorial + PHP Advanced: Includes.
- Challenge: Choose one page of a project from earlier this semester or a previous web course for this exercise. Break the page in to modules. Each module should be its own php file. Use an additional php file to collate all of the modules in to a single page.
Resources
Mar 26 – WordPress
- Watch parts of WordPress Essential Training, and Installing and Running WordPress: MAMP or Installing and Running WordPress: WAMP as needed.
- Clean up VOV code. Work to make sure it is modular.
Mar 26 and Mar 28 – CSS Grid
- CSS Grid Quickstart Guide
- CSS Grid Exercises: Products Page, Landing Page
- Resources: MDN CSS Grid Layout, CSS-Tricks Complete Guide to Grid, Layout Land.
Homework Due Monday, April 2
- Complete CSS Grid Exercises (Landing Page and Products Page).
- Read The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs , The Three Pigs, and There’s a Wolf at the Door (all on reserve at Penfield Library).
- Read A Closer Look At Personas: What They Are And How They Work (Parts 1 & 2)
March 21 – Critique
- Critique
Homework
- Complete menu board by the end of next class.
- Process book and portfolio documentation due on Monday at the start of class.
March 21 – Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting
- Critique
Homework
- Due 3/23 at 11:59pm Promotional website and copyright documentation
- Due 3/36 at the start of class Process Book
Mar 19 – Review and Critique
March 6 – Images
- Review Questions
- Images: Content or Decoration?
- HTML Tags: img, figure, figcaption
- CSS Properties: background-image, float, clear, overflow
Homework
- Continue working on Promotional Website. Make sure you have implemented any HTML entities needed. Complete CSS for typography.
February 28 – Work Day
- No Review Questions!
- Content Feedback
- Sketches
- Prototype Exercise
Homework
- Read chapter from Don’t Make Me Think
- For Monday, March 5 you need to have a complete plan for the website and the HTML (minus the images) written.
February 26 – Content & Copyright
- Review Questions
- Copyright Reminders
- Critique on revised Moodboards
Homework
- Read chapters 1-5 in Don’t Make Me Think
- Complete Content exercise
- Copyright Documentation Spreadsheet
February 23 – Critique
- Review Question: download rq12.html. Your goal is to design this page of typography resources so that it is easy to skim. Add this file to a project folder, create a stylesheet and start styling! Submit on Google Drive.
- Moodboard and Logo Critique
- Empathy Maps
Homework
- Complete Empathy Map Exercise
- Read chapters 1-5 in Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug by Wednesday, February 28.
February 23 – Menu Boards
- Menu Board Project
February 21 – Tutorials
- Acrobat DC: Creating Accessible PDFs with Chad Chelius
- InDesign CC 2018 Essential Training with David Blotner
Due February 28: Choose One*
You will need to submit the certificate of completion and the tutorial files you completed.
February 21 – Visual Research
- Review Questions
- Moodboards
- Visual Research and Moodboard Exercise
Homework
February 19 – Brainstorming
- Typography Mindmap
- Introduction to Promotional Website project
Homework
- Complete the Moodboards for Web Designers course by Sue Jenkins on Lynda.com (http://oswego.edu/lynda to log in). The course is about an hour. You will need to provide a certificate of completion (in Lynda click your name in the top right hand corner > certificates). Print your certificate and bring to class.
February 16 – Review
- Review Questions
- Complete typography blog exercise. Make the site live. Test on large screen, iPads, and at least one phone. Identify issues (document those issues in a Google Doc) and then revise your design to address the issues.
Homework
- Evaluate the typography your final Typography Blog design.
- An evaluation requires that you identify and explain the criteria you are evaluating with.
- An evaluation is not an argument for why you deserve a good grade. A good evaluation looks as the design critically and demonstrates a good understanding of best practices.
- Remember to address the following: the tone established, legibility, readability, horizontal rhythm, vertical rhythm, chunking, hiearchy, punctuation, etc. Do not forget to consider how well the typography works on all screen sizes.
- Be specific. Point to very specific elements of the design and specific design decisions that you made.
- Show as well as tell by including screenshots of your website to illustrate what you are talking about.
- 500 word evaluation
- Submit as a PDF on Google Drive and Lisa French. Bring a printed copy to class
February 14 – Challenge
- Challenge: Write a love letter to typography. Pick one element, aspect or concept to focus on. The letter should include an opener and a closer. Create a webpage to “hold” that letter. Type is image. No additional content is allowed.
- Bonus: Create a webpage for one of the provided quotations about typography. The typographic choices should reflect the content of the quote and the designer who said the quote.
Homework
- Complete in class exercise.
February 14 – Challenge
- Create an e-greeting inspired by the candy hearts provided.
- Project must be contained in a single file.
- At least one photo or scan of a candy heart must be included.
- Bonus: Include motion.*
- Bonus: Send the greeting via email (and not as an attachment) by the end of class.*
*Graduate students must complete one bonus as part of their challenge.
February 12 – Site Review
February 12 – Testing
- HTML: metadata
- <meta charset=”UTF-8″>
- <meta name=”description” content=”Put a short description of your site here.”>
- <meta name=”keywords” content=”search phrase 1, term2, search phrase 3, keyword4″>
- <meta name=”author” content=”author’s name”>
- <meta name=”designer” content=”your name”>
- <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1″>
- SFTP
- hostname is rocky.oswego.edu
- username and password are your laker credentials
- upload a project folder to the public-html folder
- URL is http://oswego.edu/~yourLakerID/projectFolderName
Homework
- Exercise: Test, Publish and Revise
- Add metadata to HTML
- Check HTML code with provided markup
- Validate HTML and CSS. Address all errors and warnings.
- Make code live
- Test on large screen in lab
, on iPad, and on a phone. Make notes about what needs to be revised at each screen size. Use the Chrome add-on Measure to check your line lengths. - Use the Wave Evaluation tool to check for accessibility issues.
- Revise your files
, make live,and retest (repeat as necessary).
Submit your testing notes, final version of the site, and a shortcut to the live website.
- Check to see if you have a public-html folder when logging in to FTP. If not, file a ticket with CTS today!
February 9 – Evaluating
- Maddy presentation and critique.
- How do we evaluate design work? What should be in a written evaluation?
- What should be in portfolio documentation? What format is appropriate?
Homework
- Process book
- Written Evaluation
- Portfolio Documentation
February 9 – Typographic Details
- Review Questions
- Q & A
- Using Open Type Features (font-feature-settings)
- Typography Cheatsheet
Homework
- Read chapters 10-12 in Better Web Type. These chapters will cover typographic details you will need to implement in your website project for Monday.
- Exercise: create a copy of the last exercise folder for this exercise. Implement appropriate Open Type Features, punctuation and special characters. Refine the overall design. Make sure you have added any necessary attribution or other details required to abide by copyright law and the licenses of the assets used in the project. This will be the final version of your website, which will be published live on the web (refine accordingly).
February 7 – Critique
- Critique
- Vertical Rhythm: baseline grid (applied to the vertical space on the site), chunking, modular scale (applied to the type sizes)
- Modular Scale Tools: ModularScale, TypeScale
Homework
- Exercise 8: Make a copy of exercise 7 and add the following:
- Revise design based on feedback during critique.
- Implement a modular scale.
- Implement a baseline grid.
February 7 – Challenge
- CHALLENGE: Present Work in 5 minutes; you have 30 minutes to prepare
- Show original magazine layout and identify key features of the design
- Show an overview of your process (ideation, drafts, user testing)
- Show current solution and explain how your process informed your solution.
- Critique
Homework
- Revise project for Friday, February 9. Complete process book, written evaluation and portfolio documentation for Monday, February 12.
February 5 – Vertical Rhythm
- Review Questions
- Q & A
- HTML: unordered lists, ordered lists, list items, span
- CSS: box model, media query, list-style
Vertical Rhythm: baseline grid (applied to the vertical space on the site), chunking, modular scale (applied to the type sizes)Modular Scale Tools: ModularScale, TypeScale
Homework
- Exercise 8: Create a copy of the exercise 7 folder for this exercise. In this exercise you will
- Add media queries where your design falls apart (usually because the line length gets too long). In each media query consider the font-size, line-height and line length of both the paragraph and heading text.
- Implement any necessary changes to the horizontal rhythm in media queries (letter-spacing, kerning, text-align, text-indent, etc.)
Improve the vertical rhythm of the page across screen sizes by implementing a baseline grid, chunking and a modular scale.Adjust the page composition to take advantage of the visual interest that asymmetry brings.
- Prepare for critique next class.
February 5 – Critique
- Challenge #2 Solution
Critique Print to Screen
Homework
- Critique is reschedule for Wednesday, February 6.
- Revise project for Friday, February 9. Complete process book, written evaluation and portfolio documentation for Monday, February 12.
February 2 – Horizontal Rhythm
Rebecca will not be in class today because of a family emergency. Although there is not class, there is still work to be done in preparation for Monday. For class today (Friday) you should have the mobile design for your webpage implemented. Use class time today to start exercise 7:
- Create a copy of exercise 6 and use the copy to complete this exercise.
- Add space between your paragraphs by adding the property margin-bottom to the p selector in your stylesheet. Em would be the appropriate unit.
- Invent a name for the website and add it to the header of the webpage.
- If you used a sans-serif typeface for your body text, find a companion serif typeface to use for your headings. Likewise, if you used a serif typeface for your body text, find a companion sans-serif typeface to use for your headings. Use your text for guidance on how to choose a second typeface (a similar x-height is necessary). Implement your new heading styles.
- Use the CSS-Tricks Almanac to look up the following CSS properties that impact horizontal rhythm: letter-spacing, kerning, text-align, text-indent, hanging-punctuation. Use this information to improve the horizontal rhythm of your headings and your body text on your small screen design
Help each other out. Ask the advance students for guidance if you get stuck. If no one can help, post a question on Slack and I’ll help you out.
Homework
- Read Chapters 7-8 in Better Web Type
- Finish exercise 7.
February 2 – Critique Delayed
I will not be in class today because of a family emergency. Please give each other feedback today and mentor beginning students who need help. Use the class time you have to refine your work — remember that you need to do user testing, so feel free to ask students in 317 to help you out. We’ll critique your projects on Monday and will bump the remaining deadlines for the assignment by one class period. If you have questions, please reach out in Slack.
January 31 – Challenge #2
Challenge 1: “Show Love” Button Design
Recreate this button using only CSS and the following HTML: <body><button> Show Love</button></body>. You may not use ANY images. Submit a single html file that contains an internal style sheet. Remember that the example above is just an image and does not show any interaction; it is up to you to decide an appropriate user feedback and interaction.
In addition to submitting your coded solution provide a written explanation of how you tackled this problem. It is not uncommon to have a hard technical test in an interview where the purpose is to demonstrate your thought process and problem solving skills and not necessarily a perfect solution.
Hints
- Hint 1: Multiple Borders
- Hint 2: HTML Entities
- Hint 3: Pseudo Elements
- Hint 4: Text Shadow & Text Transform
- Hint 5: CSS Gradients
January 31 – HTML and CSS
- Review Questions
- Q & A
- Copyright protections:
- Reproduce work in copies
- Create derivative works
- Distribute copies to the public (sale, rental, etc.)
- Perform the work publicly
- Display the work publicly
- Perform the work publicly by means of audio transmission
- HTML: doctype, html, body, head, meta, title, p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, div, article, header, footer, main
- CSS: reset, font-family, font-size, color, line-height, width, padding
- MDN HTML Element Reference
- CSS Tricks Almanac
- HTML Validator
- CSS Validator
Homework
- HTML Exercise: Create a folder for this exercise. In that folder create a file called index.html and markup the content of the provided typography blog post. Attach a stylesheet and implment the optimized paragraph design for mobile from the paragraph sketches exercise. Make sure you validate your code.
- Read chapters 5 and 6 in Better Web Typography.
January 29 – Readability
- Review Questions
- Q&A
- Installing fonts on a Mac
- Exploring Open Type features
- Readability: line height, line length, type size, type color
Homework
- Exercise 4: Play Better Web Type game until you get at least an 85%. Submit a screenshot of your score on Google Drive.
- Exercise 5: Create 3 paragraph sketches for each of the following screen widths: 400px, 1200px, 2000px. Consider weight, style, leading, and size. Sketches should be made in Illustrator.
January 29 – Process Books
A process book documents all major design decisions and steps in the design process. Summarize research methods and key findings. Explain how findings during discovery, critiques or user testing influenced how a particular deliverable or asset was revised. Remember to both show and tell.
Other members of your design studio who might need to update or revise your project or do a similar one in the future are the intended audience of this document.
Process book will be evaluated with the department’s process rubric. The process outlined in the book, the actual design of the book, and the writing in the book are all evaluated.
Specs
- letter size
- landscape
- designed for screen
- design in InDesign (use stylesheets)
- submit as an accessible PDF
January 26 – Body Copy
- Review Questions
- Q&A
- Discuss Mood & Tone exercise
- Copyright Basics
- Open Type Features
Homework
- Choose Font Exercise
- Complete copyright documentation for Typography Blog project
- Read Chapter 4 in Better Web Typography
January 24 – Print to Screen
January 24 – Content vs Style
- Review Questions
- Q & A
- Slack and Google Drive
- What is typography?
- Content versus Style
- Exercise 1: Anatomy of Type
- Exercise 2: Mood and Tone
Homework
- Read Chapter 3 in Better Web Typography
- Read Use of Fonts in Design Business + Ethics
January 22 – Introductions
- Introductions
- Brain Dump: What is web design?
- Hopes and Fears
- Review Syllabus
- Read Chapters 1&2 Better Web Typography
Homework
January 22 – Challenge
December 13 – Final Evals
December 13 – Finals
- Client Presentation
Homework
- All remaining work related to the Oswego County Airport website must be submitted by Friday, December 15 at 11:59pm
- Individual project materials can be submitted through Sunday, Decemember 17 at 5pm
December 6 – Home Stretch
- Review Questions
- Q & A
- HTML Audio Tag example
- Podcast RSS Feed example
- Reminders about what to turn in at the end of the semester
- Accessibility: WebAim Section 508 Checklist and WebAim WCAG Checklist
Homework
- Each group should submit the URL to live version of your proposed site on 317_f17 channel in our Slack group prior to class on 12/8.
- Exercise: Project Statement (Due 12/8)
- Exercise: Icons and Share Graphic (Due 12/8)
- Exercise: RSS Feed (Due 12/13)
December 1 – Navigation and Fancy CSS
- Navicon – jump to bottom of screen
- Navicon Simple JS Menu
- JQuery UI: Accordion Example
- Advanced CSS Techniques: Positioning, Display, Transforms, Transitions
Homework
- Mobile CSS for homepage and individual podcast page.
November 29 – Positioning
- Review Questions
- Q & A
- Navigation
- Navigation Markup
- Positioning: CSS Positioning 101, Absolute, Relative, Fixed Positioning: How Do They Differ?
Homework
- Review Positioning (see above)
November 27 – Development
- Review Questions – Required Assets
- Q & A
- Reminders and Work Time
Homework
- Complete HTML for home page and one interior page.
- User test attribution (on mockup).
- CSS for typography
November 17 – Work Day
- Review Questions
- Q & A
- Copyright Documentation: Spreadsheet Template, Copyright and Release Form Templates
- Work Time
Homework
- Prepare for pitches on Monday. Presentations should be between 10-15min.