Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/Q2

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Quarter 2 2015

Your city in the browser

In the second quarter of Design & Technique will be focus on the interactive side of web design.

As an assignment you'll be asked to build a tool or interface for your intervention, using web design tools.

Tools and interfaces can take the shape of a map, a game, a audio guide, a video, an animated illustration or anything else you come up with, which changes the perception or functioning of a place, in this case the location of your intervention.

For example of works that change a location, through an interface, see the art works bellow

Web-based works - exploring city spaces

Topics:

  • interaction with audio and video
  • vectorial drawings: that can react to the user actions in the browser
  • Javascript and jQuery: to interaction with elements of you page.
  • capture web cam
  • geolocation


deliverables

The work load for the quarter will be divided into:

  • weekly classes,
  • simple weekly deliverables – small exercises that consolidate the techniques and concepts approached in classes, as well as allow you to find expressive and personal ways of employing them.
  • final deliverable - a tool or interface for your intervention

Classes

tutorials

Study resources

JavaScript & jQuery

Library books

Examples

Brain storm

Subjects

Subjects explored include:

  • Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – for the creation of interactive and animated vector images in the browser, also in conjunction with vector drawing software, such as Illustrator and Inkscape.
  • JavaScript and jQuery - to provide the interactive and dynamic elements to web pages to pages
  • Snap.svg Javascript libraries - for SVG manipulation.
  • D3 Javascript library - for the creation of visualizations
  • HTML audio-video and canvas