Week 1, August 30

Introductions #

We’ll briefly introduce ourselves, and then go through the room and hear from all of you. Let us know your preferred name, pronouns, something about you, and a bit about your design/technical background!

Our Class

What Are We Doing Here #

Let’s go through our syllabus, talk about our approach, and discuss our community agreement:

Our Syllabus

Why We Think This Is Important #

We’re going to talk about the web—and why it is our pathway into typography and interaction design:

Everything Is a Web Page

For Next Week #

• Fill out your entry in our Docs/Drive class list. These will help us a lot:

  Who We Are

• Join our Slack channel and say hello:

  Slack Channel

• Sign up for a GitHub account if you don’t have one! Do this with your newschool.edu email, then apply for the student benefits.

  You may use this GitHub account in your career, and you can always change your username (and add other email addresses) later. We’ll be using GitHub for our code. Send us your profile link:

  Submission Form

• Sign up for Figma as well, and likewise apply for the education plan. We’ll be using Figma for visual sketching.

• Read both our first unit selections:

  • The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible
    Beatrice Warde, 1932

  • A Handmade Web
    J.R. Carpenter, 2015

• And then add your thoughts and reflections:

  Unit 1 Reading Responses