Every week this semester, I will assign you readings related to the Internet, web culture, web design, or communication. Read the article and respond in one of two ways:
- Written — Generate one open-ended or discussion-type question and then answer it in 1–2 paragraphs. Post the question and your answer to our class website.
- Visual — Create a visual response using any media. It must include the title of the reading. This is meant to be done quickly (20–30 minutes), not polished and perfect. Consider it the first sketch of something for a title page of a feature article in a magazine. Post your response to our class website. If it is a physical media, post a picture it to the website. When you post, please include 2–3 bullet points explaining your visual.
By the end of the semester, you must post at least 5 responses. You can choose which ones to respond to based on your interest-level in the article and/or amount of other work due that week.
Extra credit for students who generate a response for every article.
Extra Extra credit for students who respond to every article AND have at least 8 visual responses which are in the form of web pages (i.e an HTML document coded from scratch, not merely posting to a blog or existing web infrastructure).
Class 1:
If it Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist
Class 2:
Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story
Class 3:
From Zero to One and From One to Zero
Class 4:
Class 5:
Class: 8:
Pleasurable Design (PDF here, if online article is unavailable).
Class 9:
Default Systems in Graphic Design
Class 10:
Class 11:
Captives of the Cloud: Part II
Class 12:
Captives of the Cloud: Part III
Class 13: