| Date |
Class |
Assigned |
Due |
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Tuesday
February 4 |
About the class
About 2.744: User-centric,
creative design
Symbol
design and results |
What's
in a name?
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Thursday
February 6 |
Designing for human
use:
Uncommon common sense!
Ballot
redesign and results
Universal
design
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Read
interface analysis study
Human-use
analysis |
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| Date |
Class |
Assigned |
Due |
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Tuesday
February 11 |
meet the client
Project brief and overview from the client
What's in a name results!
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Drawing
toolkit
Form
project teams |
Read
interface analysis study
What's
in a name?
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Thursday
February 13 |
bonding with your team and getting calibrated
Off-campus activity
5Witts
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Form
project teams
(before start of class) |
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Tuesday
February 18 |
No class
Tuesday follows Monday schedule
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Thursday
February 20 |
Visualizing designs
ABCs
of sketching
Visual
memory test and results
Online
visual memory game
Video resources:
Sketching basics tutorials (arcs, lines, circles, ellipses)
One-point perspective tutorials
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User-experience
design (product storyboard) |
Drawing
tookit |
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Tuesday
February 25 |
Website, schembsite
Web design 101, wireframe, html and css basics (.pdf)
Web design 101, Zen garden (.pdf)
Web design 101resources
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Thursday
February 27 |
Work period!
TA Jeff Mekler will be availble to help you with website/web development challenges
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| Date |
Class |
Assigned |
Due |
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Tuesday
March 4 |
Sketching in
3D
2
pt perspective
Video resources:
Constructing basic shapes and worksheets
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User-experience
critique (product storyboard)
Concept
sketches |
User-experience
design (product storyboard) |
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Thursday
March 6 |
Adding dimension to perspective
Tone and shade
Video resources:
Basic shading and tone video and worksheets |
Human-use
critique
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Human-use
analysis
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Tuesday
March 11 |
It's a wrap
Shade and tone, Canson drawing
Pencil sharpener video tutorials |
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User-experience
critique (product storyboard)
Human-use
critique |
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Thursday
March 13 |
Sketching clinic
More design sketching techniques
Scott Stropkay, Essential
design:
Examples of sketching in practice (.pdf):
demonstration
videos |
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| Date |
Class |
Assigned |
Due |
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Tuesday
March 18
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fast and furious
Immersion in sketch modeling
Interactive
game brainstorming and prototyping exercise
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Concept
exploration models
Concept
sketch critique |
Concept
sketches |
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Thursday
March 20 |
Designing in 3D
Sketch modeling
see demonstrations
by Beth Sullivan, IC3D
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Friday
March 21 |
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Concept
sketch critique |
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Tuesday
March 25 |
Spring break!
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Thursday
March 27 |
Spring break! |
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| Date |
Class |
Assigned |
Due |
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Tuesday
April 1 |
hand sketch to digital rendering
Illustrator
rendering,part 1
Sprout Studio's design process (.pdf)
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Thursday
April 3 |
hand sketch to digital rendering
Illustrator
rendering, part 2
See also, photoshop tutorials by Dirk Algrim, IDEO
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Concept
refinement |
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Tuesday
April 8 |
Work period |
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Thursday
April 10 |
Judgment day
Sketch model review
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Concept
exploration models critique |
Concept
exploration models |
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Friday
April 11
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Concept exploration (sketch models) digital submission due at 5 PM |
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| Date |
Class |
Assigned |
Due |
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Tuesday
April 15 |
the messenger of experience:
form and color
Form development exercise
(I am an emotional form)
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Concept
exploration models critique |
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Thursday
April 17 |
the messenger of experience:
form and color
Color exercise (I am an emotional picture)
Exercise resources
-
a few Photoshop pointers (.rtf)
- Photoshop color exercise file (.psd)
- color psychology (.jpg)
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Communicating
progress
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Tuesday
April 22 |
Patriot's day holiday.
No class |
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Thursday
April 24 |
the messenger of the experience: graphics
Graphics design exercise
Exercise resources
dafont.com
photoshop pointers |
Concept
refinement critique
Concept
implementation |
Concept
refinement |
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| Date |
Class |
Assigned |
Due |
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Monday
April 28 |
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Concept
refinement critique |
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Tuesday
April 29 |
project consuting
Review feedback
Schedule |
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Communicating
progress
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Thursday
May 1 |
project consuting
Review feedback
Schedule |
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Tuesday
May 6 |
out of the box
Packaging design
Packaging challenge |
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Thursday
May 8 |
it's a wrap
Discussion of exercises and course summary |
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| Date |
Class |
Assigned |
Due |
Tuesday
May 13 |
Presenting the experience
Final project review
See
the results! |
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Concept
implementation |
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Thursday
May 15 |
Presenting the experience
Final project review
See
the results! |
Team
review
Course evaluation |
Concept
implementation |
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Friday
May 16 |
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Concept implementation websites (9 PM) |
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Saturday
May 17 |
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Team
review
Course evaluation
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