Syllabus

Welcome to J4502!

I'm glad to have each of you in the class. This course will be very fast-paced and lectures will build on the previous ones. Because of this, it's crucial you ask for help if you get confused.

My primary goal is to expose you to industry-standard expectations and give you a foundational design process to iterate upon. While this course does have technical instruction, you will not be expected to master web design in one semester. Instead, you will be expected to answer:

• why you're building something
• what problems it solves
• how to craft an effective solution

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Feedback

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

Week	--Date--	Topic
1	Aug. 24	Lecture: Intro to course, review syllabus and go over course expectations.
1	Aug. 26	Lecture: Web standards
2	Aug. 31	Lecture: Web standards
2	Sept. 2	Lecture: Web standards
3	Sept. 7	No class. (Labor Day Holiday) Enjoy it! 🍂
3	Sept. 9	Lecture: Introduce semester project options + grading rubric.
4	Sept. 14	Lecture: User-centered design, who we build for and why. (Teams assigned)
4	Sept. 16	Lecture: UCD Part 2
5	Sept. 21	TBD
5	Sept. 23	Lecture: Accessibility
6	Sept. 28	Lab: Work on creative brief
6	Sept. 30	Lecture: Intro to Prototyping
7	Oct. 5	Lecture: Mobile design best practices
7	Oct. 7	Lab: Prototyping work day
8	Oct. 12	Lecture: Storyboards
8	Oct. 14	Lab: Storyboards work day
9	Oct. 19	Lecture: Website Basics: Structure
9	Oct. 21	Lecture: Website Basics: Structure
10	Oct. 26	Lecture: Website Basics: Navigation
10	Oct. 28	Lecture: Intro to CSS
11	Nov. 2	Lecture: CSS continued
11	Nov. 4	Lecture: Debugging in the inspector
12	Nov. 9	Lab: Styling
12	Nov. 11	Lab: Styling
13	Nov. 16	Lecture: TBD
13	Nov. 18	Lecture: TBD
14	Nov. 23	No class for Thanksgiving Break. Enjoy it! 🍗
14	Nov. 25	No class for Thanksgiving Break. Enjoy it! 🍗
15	Nov. 30	Presentations (1st Draft)
15	Dec. 2	Presentations (1st Draft)
16	Dec. 7	Lab: One-on-one feedback
16	Dec. 9	Lab: work day
Finals	Dec. 14	Final presentations!

Milestones and due dates

--Date--	Assignment Due by 11:59 p.m. (Central)
Aug. 26	Slack and Github
Sept. 16	Met with group and created #Group-Channel
Sept. 23	User testing favorite website
Sept. 30	Creative brief
Oct. 12	Sketches
Oct. 19	Prototypes
Oct. 26	index.html with body copy
Oct. 2	Second page
Nov. 9	Basic styling (grid, typography)
Nov. 16	Basic styling (colors, links)
Nov. 29	Basic styling (theme)
Nov. 30	Presentations (first draft)
Dec. 2	Presentations (first draft)