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Jan 21, Tuesday

Kick offs of all kinds.

For Thursday

  • Sign up for a topic and presentation timeslot.
  • Identity two potential topic areas you are interested in for P1. One must be from the list on the P1 page, and both can be.

Jan 23, Thursday

For Tuesday

Research your chosen topic. Your research should manifest as 2 pages of synthesized information, but this is the basis for your zine, your mastery of the topic area is important. If I ask you a question about your topic on Tuesday, will you be able to answer?

Jan 28, Tuesday

  • Discuss Re/Search Zines Vol 1 β€” response doc.
  • Being working on P1 Step 2
  • Group discussions of spread outcomes and research, informing your outlining. Please link your outcome for the spreads exercise in the weekly doc
  • Attend Shannon Finnegan: Accessibility Dreams lecture in Nave@6pm

For Thursday

  • Complete P1 Step 2
  • Read Light Industry and add your thoughts to the weekly doc (there's a new section for thursday)
  • Have 2 distinct proposed structures for your zine for Thursday, even if they're for the same target audience.

Jan 30, Thursday

For Tuesday

Specfically, for each of your two directions, come to class with three representative sketches. What are the 3 most important moments for a given design direction, and focus on working those out in your sketches.

So, three sketches for two directions, or a total of six sketches for Tuesday.

Feb 4, Tuesday

  • Begin working on P1 Step 4.
  • Group crits on sketches.
  • Code demos relating to people's sketches if time.

For Thursday

I'll give specific guidance on where to start building when I come around during class.

Feb 6, Thursday

For Tuesday

Continue to work on step 4. Have the structure and as much of the content of your site in place as you can. Come to class with questions and things you're stuck on.

Feb 11, Tuesday

  • Work time on P1 Step 4.

For Thursday

Make progress on Step 4, we will have a classwide crit Thursday. Be prepared to communicate your concept to your fellow students through your site.

If time, we'll see Gissele and Donnah's presentations.

Feb 13, Thursday

  • In progress crit.
  • Giselle and Donnah's presentations if time.

Have you work ready to show and try to have specifc areas you want feedback on, this is the only big crit before this assignment is due, use it! The crit order is as follows.

Sony
Marian
Jinyu
Chiao
Raven
Sherrie
Kyra
Nielsen
Gissele
Casey
Tony
Donnah
Janel
Kajri
Eunji
Ernest

For Tuesday

Continue to make progress on your sites. Try and have them as 'complete' as possible by Tuesday so you can focus on final fixes and polish between Tuesday and Thursday.

Feb 18, Tuesday

  • Giselle and Donnah's presentations.
  • Class work time.

For Thursday

Have your Project 1 outcome uploaded to your class site at the start of class.

Feb 20, Thursday

Final crit for P1. Please have you projects pushed to your class sites for crit. The order will be as follows.

Sony
Chiao
Ernest
Casey
Donnah
Marian
Raven
Jinyu
Tony
Kyra
Eunji
Gissele
Kajri
Sherrie
Janel
Nielsen

For Tuesday

Read This is Not my Beautiful House: Examining the Desktop Metaphor, 1980-1995 by Everest Pipkin, 2019 and add a response to the week 6 doc

Find one website with that uses an interaction we’re accustomed to – click, scroll, hover, etc. in a novel way. Have the URL ready to share with the class at the beginning of the class session, and also add them to the week 6 doc.

  • Giselle and Donnah's presentations.
  • Nielsen and Chiao's presentations for Thursday.

Feb 24, Tuesday

For Thursday

  • Aim to have 25 interactions done of at least 3 different types (ie, mousedown, mousemove, scroll), we'll have work time in class.
  • Nielsen and Chiao's presentations.

Feb 27, Thursday

  • Nielsen and Chiao's presentations.
  • Continue to work on your 50 Elements.
  • Start P2 Step 2.

For Tuesday

Complete P2 Steps 1 and 2.

Mar 3, Tuesday

  • Group discussions of your 50 elements and journals.
  • Begin sketching 3 directions for a microsite for your interaction.

For Thursday

  • Have your microsite design sketches for review.
  • Kyra and Ernest's presentations.

Mar 5, Thursday

  • Kyra and Ernest's presentations.
  • Desk crits of your sketches.
  • Begin work on your microsite.

For Tuesday

  • Read Fuck Content, Michael Rock 2009 and add your thoughts to the weekly doc.
  • Make progress on your microsite.
  • Tony and Sony's Presentations.

Mar 10, Tuesday

  • Tony and Sony's Presentations.
  • Reading discussion on Fuck Content, Michael Rock 2009 - weekly doc.
  • Work time.

For Tuesday

Mar 31, Tuesday

ZOOM Room for Class

  • Talk about how we're doing this class online.
  • Work time.

We'll do the worktime section of class as office hours.

For Thursday

  • Finish project 2 and have it uploaded to your class site by noon and update the link to it here. Respond to one another's project here before class starts.
  • Raven and Eunji's Presentations due.

Apr 2, Thursday

ZOOM Room for Class

  • Final Crit on P2.
  • Eunji's presentation if time / we're doing it live.
  • Intro P3 if time.

For Tuesday

Research SFMOMA's past exhibitions and select an exhibition. Develop two website concepts for that exhibition. Produce a wireframe/sketch of each direction, beginning with the home page and one detail page, for a total of 4 sketches. Get those sketches in a form you can share them digitally.

Apr 6, Tuesday

We'll meet in groups of 5/6 to talk about your wireframes and where you want to go visually with your exhibition sites. Please sign up before class starts in this document.

For Thursday

We will meet at 4 as a class to talk about the reading, and then break for meetings and work time.

Apr 9, Thursday

Marian can do her presentation if she is doing it in person, and we'll talk about the reading a bit before breaking for office hours.

For Tuesday

Finish your visual designs for your site for P3, three sketches of different states. We'll do group check in's similar to last week, you can sign up here.

Apr 14, Tuesday

We'll meet and go over visual designs, use the class time to start building your sites when you aren't meeting with me.

For Thursday

  • Read Karel Martens, Joy, and Five Years of P! and add a response to the weekly doc
  • Make progress on building your site.
  • Casey and Sherrie's Presentations are this week. Please either be prepared to present though Thursday or turn them in as a recording.

We will meet at 4 as a class to talk about the reading, and then break for meetings and work time.

Apr 16, Thursday

We'll do Casey and Sherrie's Presentations if those are happening in class, and talk about the reading, before breaking for office hours.

For Tuesday

Your initial site should be online for review, have most of the content and pages in place, even if the style isn't finalized yet. The further along you can get the more feedback you'll be able to receive, as always, try to get stuck a couple of different ways before class.

Apr 21, Tuesday

You only need to report to class at the time you signed up for a group check in.

For Thursday

  • Make progress on building your site toward the 75% crit next week.
  • Jinyu's presentation is due this week. Please either be prepared to present though Thursday or turn it in as a recording.
  • Document to Sign up for Office Hours

We will meet at 4 as a class to chat briefly, and then break for meetings and work time.

Apr 23, Thursday

Please report at the beginning of class, we'll meet for a while for presentations and to talk about recording your sites for level 3 reviews.

Chris Hamamoto's interactive classes are hosting Marcin Wichary for a Q/A starting at 6pm, that you are welcome to attend online here.

Marcin Wichary is a designer and typographer based in San Francisco. Originally from Poland, Marcin has worked at Google, Medium, and Figma – where he is currently a design manager. He has worked on countless projects with global reach, including enhancement to Google search, transforming the Google logo into a playable version of Pac-Man, shaping the writing experience at Medium, and working on crucial parts of Figma’s experience (such as text rendering, auto layout, and links).

Additionally, he maintains an independent practice centered around research and publishing which has led him to: surfacing lesser-known histories of the Bay Area urban environment; translating/subtitling/screening a Polish TV sitcom satirizing late-stage Capitalism for a San Francisco audience. He is currently finishing writing β€œShift Happens,” a book on the history of keyboards and typing.

For Tuesday

Your site should be online for review, and close to final finish. The further along you can get the more feedback you'll be able to receive, as always, theis will be the last chance to get feedback from a big group before final crit.

You only need to report for the timeslot you sign up for.

Apr 28, Tuesday

Your site should be online for review, and close to final finish. The further along you can get the more feedback you'll be able to receive, as always, this will be the last chance to get feedback from a big group before final crit.

For Thursday

We'll meet at the beginning of class quickly before breaking for office hours.

Apr 28, Thursday

I'll talk briefly about downloading your projects from glitch to upload to your class site for archiving, then we'll break for office hours, note: I didn't clear the office hours document last week, so if you don't want to be signed up, please clear your name!

For Tuesday

Final Crit will be Tuesday May 5th, we'll do the same format as we did for P2, where we respond to each others projects in this document on Tuesday before class begins, and I'll run through everyone's projects on my computer.

Please be prepared for crit with final outcomes, though I won't start grading P3 til after class on Thursday May 7th when the class formally ends, please try and have your work as final as possible for Tuesday. Remember, this is mostly about giving you time to get your level 3 work together.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

May 4, Tuesday

Please have your site linked by 3p Tuesday in the above document to give your classmates time to respond to your project, we'll spend class critting as a group.

For Thursday

Thursday will be office hours in it's entirety, you only need to sign up for a slot if you need help getting work together for Level 3 review or for revisions on any of your projects this semester. I'll start calling people starting at 4p on Thursday.