Syllabus

Welcome to J4502!

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Feedback

Class participation is required in this course. You are expected to give constructive design feedback to your peers.

Course schedule

Week	--Week Of--	Topic
1	Jan. 19/20	Lecture: Intro to course, review syllabus and go over course expectations.
1	Jan. 21/26	Lecture: Websites 101
2	Jan. 25/27	Lecture: User-centered design, who we build for and why.
3	Feb. 1/2	Github and Atom
3	Feb. 3/4	Build your first web page!
4	Feb. 8/9	Usability
4	Feb. 10/11	Lab: User testing assignment
5	Feb. 15/16	Introduce semester project options + expectations.
5	Feb. 17/18	Workday: Work on creative brief.
6	Feb. 22/23	Lecture: Intro to Prototyping
6	Feb. 24/25	Lecture: Mobile design best practices
7	Feb. 29/March 1	Lab: Prototyping work day
7	March 2/3	Lab: Prototyping critiques
8	March 7/8	Lecture: Storyboards
8	March 9/10	Lab: Storyboards work day
9	March 14/15	Lab: Sketches work day. Introduce A8.
9	March 16/17	Lab: Mockup work day.
10	March 21/22	No class. Emily sick. 😷
10	March 23/24	Lecture: Intro to website structure
Break	March 28-31	Spring Break! No class. Throw a party.:surfer:
11	April 4/5	Lecture: Git and Github
11	April 6/7	Lecture: Introduce A10
12	April 11/12	No class. #ConcernedStudent1950
12	April 13/14	Lecture: CSS
13	April 18/19	Lecture: Local server, Github Pages & A11
13	April 20/21	Lab: Styling
14	April 25/26	Presentations (1st Draft)
14	April 27/28	Presentations (1st Draft)
15	May 2/3	Lab: One-on-one feedback
15	May 4/5	Lab: work day
Finals	tbd	Final presentations!

Milestones and due dates

--Date--	Assignment Due by 11:59 p.m. (Central)	Points
Jan. 21	Slack and Github	20
Jan. 28	UX	20
Feb. 4	Your first site	20
Feb. 11	User testing	20
Feb. 19	Met with group and created #Group-Channel	20
March 3	Creative brief	100
March 10	Information Hierarchy	20
Oct. 16	Layout Sketches (finals)	40
Oct. 19	Storyboards (roughs)	20
Oct. 23	Storyboards/Mockups (finals)	100
Nov. 1	index.html with body copy	40
Nov. 9	Clean-up HTML, Feedback and Second Page	100
Nov. 19	Basic styling (grid, typography)	40
Nov. 30	Critiques (first class)	40
Dec. 2	Critiques (second class)	n/a
Dec. 4	Styling (colors, links, theme)	80

Grade breakdown

Task	Points	% of Grade
Assignments	660	44%
Feedback check-in	60	4%
Group evaluations	80	5.33̅%
Class participation and attendance	200	13.33̅%
Final project	500	33.33̅%
Total points available	1,500	100%

Attendance

Attendance is required. You are allowed to miss 2 class periods before it starts affecting your grade. But be warned, I will not take time to re-explain course material outside of class (legitimate excuses aside).

Note: the final is a huge part of your grade. If you do well on the assignments leading up to it, you will most likely do well in this course.

Extra credit

This course will have two, small extra credit assignments. I'm still determining what that will be. I'll keep you posted and will notify the entire class when it's decided.