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	Due
1	Jan. 19/20	Lecture: Intro to course, review syllabus and go over course expectations.	Join Slack and Github
1	Jan. 21/26	Lecture: Web standards
2	Jan. 25/27	Introduction to HTML
3	Feb. 1/2	Github and Atom
3	Feb. 3/4	Build your first web page!	First site
4	Feb. 8/9	CSS
4	Feb. 10/11	Build your first styled web page!	Styled site
5	Feb. 15/16	Introduce semester project options + expectations. Begin usability module.
5	Feb. 17/18	Usability
6	Feb. 22/23	Present usability test results	Usability study presentation
6	Feb. 24/25	Typography
7	Feb. 29/March 1	Type and grids	Creative Brief
7	March 2/3	Color, contrast, balance.	Storyboards and mockups
8	March 7/8	HTML5
8	March 9/10	Workday for first drafts
9	March 15/16	Present first drafts	First drafts
9	March 17/18	Browser testing
10	March 21/22	CSS3
10	March 23/24	CSS3
Break	March 28-31	Spring Break! No class. Throw a party.:surfer:
11	April 4/5	JavaScript
11	April 6/7	jQuery
12	April 11/12	Responsive design/media queries
12	April 13/14	Responsive design/media queries
13	April 18/19	Present second drafts	Second drafts
13	April 20/21	Finish second drafts.	Group feedback
14	April 25/26	Data visualization and graphing
14	April 27/28	Data visualization and mapping
15	May 2/3	Final questions and wrapups
15	May 4/5	Final questions and wrapups
Finals	tbd	Final presentations!	Final assignment

Milestones and due dates

--Date--	Assignment Due by 5 p.m. (Central)	Points
Jan. 21	Slack and Github	20
Feb. 4	Your first site	20
Feb. 11	User testing	20
Feb. 19	Met with group and created #Group-Channel	20
Feb. 22	Creative brief	100
Feb. 26	Information Hierarchy	20
March 3	Final Layout Sketches (finals)	40
March 11	Storyboards (roughs)	20
March 19	Storyboards and Mockups (final)	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
Small assignments	250	25%
Usability test	150	15%
Website drafts	200	20%
Class participation and attendance	100	10%
Final project (group grade)	150	15%
Final project (individual grade)	150	15%
Total points available	1,000	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.