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Tuesday February 6 |
About the class 2.744: User-centric, creative design Symbol design and results |
What's in a name? |
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Thursday February 8 |
Designing for human use: |
Read interface analysis study Human-use analysis | |
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Tuesday February 13 |
meet the client |
Drawing toolkit Form project teams | Read interface analysis study
What's in a name? |
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Thursday February 15 |
bonding with your team and getting calibrated Off-campus activity 5Wits |
Form
project teams (before start of class) |
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Tuesday February 20 |
No class Tuesday follows Monday schedule |
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Thursday February 22 |
Visualizing designs Video resources: |
User-experience design (product storyboard) | Drawing tookit |
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Tuesday February 27 |
Website, schmebsite Make sure you've downloaded Filezilla, as well as either Brackets or Sublime Text. |
Deliverable end-of day Tuesday: Team logos. A transparent png logo that works on a black background, for use on your team's portfolio page (click on your team name to reach your portfolio page). Please email a high resolution version to drwallac. I'll size the logo to fit the page. | |
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Thursday March 1 |
Website, doubly-schmebsite Demo files from class: Zen garden, webpage/css examples |
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Tuesday March 6 |
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 8 |
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 11 |
User-experience critique (product storyboard) | ||
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Tuesday March 13 |
It's a wrap Shade and tone, Canson drawing Pencil sharpener video tutorials |
Human-use critique | |
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Thursday March 15 |
Now that's interesting! |
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Tuesday March 20 |
Designing in 3D Beth Sullivan, IC3D |
Concept exploration models Concept sketch critique | Concept sketches |
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Thursday March 22 |
fast and furious |
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Friday March 23 |
Concept sketch critique | ||
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Tuesday March 27 |
Spring break! |
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Thursday March 29 |
Spring break! | |
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Tuesday April 3 |
hand sketch to digital rendering Work files: Video resources from class: Illustrator Tutorials Please see the adobe license sign up by Wendeday end of day. Also, the new media center also has machines with illustrator. |
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Thursday April 5 |
hand sketch to digital rendering Work files: Video resources from class: Illustrator Tutorials |
Concept refinement | |
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Tuesday April 10 |
Work period and design consulting | ||
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Thursday April 12 |
Judgment day Sketch model review |
Concept exploration models critique | Concept exploration models |
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Friday April 13 |
Concept exploration (sketch models) digital submission due at 5 PM | ||
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Tuesday April 17 |
Patriots day holiday! |
Concept exploration models critique | |
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Thursday April 19 |
the messenger of experience: |
Communicating
progress |
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Tuesday April 24 |
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) |
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Thursday April 26 |
the messenger of the experience: |
Concept refinement critique Concept implementation | Concept refinement |
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Monday April 30 |
Concept refinement critique | ||
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Tuesday May 1 |
project consuting Review feedback Schedule |
Communicating
progress |
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Thursday May 3 |
project consuting Review feedback Schedule |
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Tuesday May 8 |
out of the box |
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Thursday May 10 |
it's a wrap Discussion of exercises and course summary |
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Sunday May 13 |
Presenting the experience Final project review See the results! |
Concept implementation | |
| Date | Class | Assigned | Due |
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Tuesday May 15 |
No class after final presentation It's website time! |
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Thursday May 17 |
No class after final presentation It's website time! |
Team review | |
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Friday May 19 |
Concept implementation websites (9:00 PM) | ||
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Sunday May 20 |
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9:00 PMTeam
review |
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