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Tuesday February 2 |
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 4 |
Designing for human use: Uncommon common sense! Ballot redesign and results Universal design |
Read interface analysis study Human-use analysis | |
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Tuesday February 9 |
meet the client |
Drawing toolkit Form project teams | Read interface analysis study
What's in a name? |
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Thursday February 11 |
bonding with your team and getting calibrated Off-campus activity 5Wits |
Form
project teams (before start of class) |
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Tuesday February 16 |
No class Tuesday follows Monday schedule |
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Thursday February 18 |
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 |
User-experience design (product storyboard) | Drawing tookit |
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Tuesday February 23 |
Website, schmebsite Please download either: |
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Thursday February 25 |
Website, doubly-schmebsite Demo files from class: Zen garden, webpage/css examples |
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Tuesday March 1 |
Sketching in 3D 2 pt perspective Video resources: Constructing basic shapes and worksheets |
User-experience critique (product storyboard) Concept sketches | User-experience design (product storyboard) |
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Thursday March 3 |
Adding dimension to perspective Tone and shade Video resources: Basic shading and tone video and worksheets |
Human-use
critique |
Human-use
analysis |
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Sunday March 6 |
User-experience critique (product storyboard) | ||
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Tuesday March 8 |
It's a wrap Shade and tone, Canson drawing Pencil sharpener video tutorials |
Human-use critique | |
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Thursday March 10 |
fast and furious |
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Tuesday March 15 |
Now that's interesting! human-use showcase Rebecca Hui: MBTA #1 bus Dexter Chew: Kitchen faucets Chris Saulnier: Autobelay device Yi-Tung Shen: Dust pan |
Concept exploration models Concept sketch critique | Concept sketches |
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Thursday March 17 |
Designing in 3D Sketch modeling see demonstrations by Beth Sullivan, IC3D |
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Friday March 18 |
Concept sketch critique | ||
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Tuesday March 22 |
Spring break! |
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Thursday March 24 |
Spring break! | |
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Tuesday March 29 |
hand sketch to digital rendering Work files: Video resources from class: Illustrator Tutorials You can download a one month trial license. It is also an option to purchase license on a monthly basis, or the new media center has machines with illustrator. |
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Thursday March 31 |
hand sketch to digital rendering Work files: Video resources from class: Illustrator Tutorials |
Concept refinement | |
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Tuesday April 7 |
Work period | ||
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Thursday April 7 |
Judgment day Sketch model review |
Concept exploration models critique | Concept exploration models |
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Friday April 8 |
Concept exploration (sketch models) digital submission due at 5 PM | ||
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Tuesday April 12 |
the messenger of experience: form and color Form development exercise (I am an emotional form) |
Concept exploration models critique | |
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Thursday April 14 |
the messenger of experience: form and color Color exercise (I am an emotional picture) - color psychology (.jpg) Exercise resources Illustrator - a few Illustrator pointers (.rtf) - exercise file in Illustrator (.ai) Photoshop - a few Photoshop pointers (.rtf) - exercise file in Photoshop (.psd) |
Communicating
progress |
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Tuesday April 19 |
Patriot's day holiday. No class |
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Thursday April 21 |
the messenger of the experience: graphics
Graphics design exercise Exercise resources image options for poster exercise exercise pointers for photoshop exercise pointers for illustrator dafont.com fontsquirrel.com google fonts |
Concept refinement critique Concept implementation | Concept refinement |
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Monday April 25 |
Concept refinement critique | ||
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Tuesday April 26 |
project consuting Review feedback Schedule |
Communicating
progress |
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Thursday April 28 |
project consuting Review feedback Schedule |
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Tuesday May 3 |
it's a wrap |
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Thursday May 5 |
out of the box Packaging design Packaging challenge |
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Sunday May 8 |
Presenting the experience Final project review See the results! |
Concept implementation | |
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Tuesday May 10 |
No class after final presentation It's website time! |
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Thursday May 12 |
No class after final presentation It's website time! |
Team review | |
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Friday May 13 |
Concept implementation websites (9:00 PM) | ||
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Sunday May 15 |
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9:00 PMTeam
review |
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