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
- Ky McDonald: Exhausting a Crowd
- LUSTlab: Urban Echo
- Collective Waiting Portrait
- Janet Cardiff: Ghost Machine
- Janet Cardiff: Alter Bahnhof Video Walk
- Yoana Buzova: Leave a Message
- Radio Garden
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
- Javascript
- jQuery library
- web cam on you browser, groups and your intervention, jquery revision, jquery advanced interaction
- work-session
- work-session
tutorials
Study resources
JavaScript & jQuery
- Lynda jQuery-Essential-Training
- [Lynda https://www.lynda.com/jQuery-tutorials/jQuery-Web-Designers jQuery-Web-Designers]
Library books
- Learning jQuery 1.3 : better interaction design and web development with simple Javascript techniques
- jQuery in action
- JavaScript & JQuery : Interactive Front-end Web Development
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
