DES 420. Professional Practice Project I

 

week1

Class Intro & Logistics (Goals, policies, grades, syllabus)
Responsive Web Design
MAD Examples

EVL history, research and overview

Example Presentations

 

 

Responsive Web Design article by Ethan Marcotte
http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design



Assignment 1

Concept Research & Analysis

 

Week 1.pdf

 

 

 

week2      

Labor Day

 

 

Assignment 1: continued

week3

Brief Intro on Mobile Platforms and Dev. Tools / Brief History of iPhone / iPhone Sensors

 

Concept Research & Analysis Presentations


The iPhone's Untapped Potential By Kate Greene
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/408152/the-iphones-untapped-potential/

 

Assignment 2

Problem statement and definition (hypothesis) – solution objectives (For Concept Presentation)

 

Week 3.pdf

 

 

 

week4

Field Trip to Morningstar


 

Assignment 3

Storyboard (For Concept Presentation)

 

week5

Storyboard / UI and UX Design / Design of the interactive simulations

Storyboard Lab (Mock-Up)

 

 

Assignment 3 - continued

 

 

 

Week 5.pdf

week6

Example MAD Concept Presentation

GUI-Layout, Spacing, Composition

Storyboard Lab (Flowchart)

 

 

 

Week 6.pdf

 

Presentation Guildelines

 

Basic Outline of the Concept Presentation

 

 


Assignment 4

Concept Presentation

 

 

 

 

week7

Intro to SAGE

Concept Presentations Class Critique - Midterm October 7

 

 

Week 7.pdf

 

Assignment 5

Concept Presentation Revisions

 

week8

CAVE2 Demonstration / Chicago IDEAS Week

 

Buttons (usability, appeal, graphics, typography)

Buttons Lab

 


 

Week 8.pdf

 

Assignment 6

GUI Design - Buttons

 

 

 

 

week9

Guest Lecture - LunAR Park by Brenda Lopez Silva

Icons (social media icons, icon styles, icons graphic development)


 

Week 9.pdf

 

iOS 7 Icon Guidelines link

 

 


Assignment 7

GUI Design - Icons

 

 

 


week10

LucidChart Editor Overview / Real Time Collaboration Intro

Animation & Interactivity (Links, Hotspots, States)

 

 

 

Class Handout

 

 

Assignment 8

Interactive Simulation

 

 

 

 

week11

Cross Compatibility (Landscape vs Portrait Layouts, image adjustments)

 

 

Assignment 9

Cross Compatible Layouts and Image Tuning

Testing

 

 

 

 

week12

Testing / Proof of Concept / Revisions

 

 

 

Assignment 10

Final Project (Solution, Story, Prototype, Presentation)

week13

Export and Publishing

 

 

week14

Final Project Development Lab

 

week15

Final Project Presentations - December 2