Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/Q2
From Publication Station
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.
Topics:
- 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
- Javascript
- jQuery library
exploring the city choose your own adventure game(d3)review game; tutorials- 07 - work-session
- 08 - feedback; work-session
Web-based works - exploring city spaces
- Grotkerkplein example http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/go-student/Q2/Grotekerkplein/
- Ky McDonald: Exhausting a Crowd
- LUSTlab: Urban Echo
- Radio Aporee
- Collective Waiting Portrait
- Janet Cardiff: Ghost Machine
- Janet Cardiff: [1] Alter Bahnhof Video Walk
Examples
- Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/Example/Business-card - constantly change image
- Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/Example/Form - user text input
- complex animations
- Play_pause_video
- http://species-in-pieces.com/ --> very awesome
- http://jviewz.com/ --> something worth seeing and hearing
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
