Week 12, November 15

Quick Intros #

We’re joined today by two guests for our project check-ins:

• Rachel Sun is a Designer with 8 years of experience across Tech, Media, Crypto, and Finance. She specializes in creating accessible, user-centered solutions that align with business goals. Passionate about helping companies scale, Rachel develops brand systems, design systems, and products that grow with the business.

• Vicky Chen is a Designer with years of experience specializing in web, UI/UX, and graphic design. Avid for both visual and product design, Vicky thrives at the intersection of creativity and user-focused approach to design friendly user-forward solutions.

Both are alumni of the program! Rachel back in 2019 and Vicky just last spring, in 2024.

Brief Demo Time #

We want to pick up from last week’s demo, quickly showing how you will structure your final projects:

• Create three separate folders/index pages for your entries, instead of sibling HTML files—article-name/index.html
• Make a landing page index.html in the project root, adding a ul with links to the entries on the landing page
• Re-link your subpages to the shared ../assets/common.css
• Add a shared navigation (home, previous, next) on the entries
• Edit the navigation, updating per-page instances to your order
• Link to a page-specific CSS file with a relative path

Project 3 Check-Ins #

We’ll spend the bulk of class today looking through your initial third project sketching. We’ll break up into groups again for this, in the corners:

• Our goal is that you’ll each see one instructor, one alumn
• We’ll shoot for 5 minutes with each person
• Give us very quick background and then right into the browser!
• Have your work up locally in Dev Mode, at 375
• Be prepared to quickly comment/switch between your direction CSS files
• If you want to write feedback down (never a bad idea)—Slack yourself from a classmate’s comp while we use yours to demo!
• If we have time we can stay a bit longer for Second Opinions

For Next Week #

• You’ll be moving into the next phase of your Binding projects. Narrow your design direction and build it out across all your pages—then start to flesh it out across the breakpoints:

  Project 3 Develop the System

• As noted on the project page, we also want you to weigh in on your former partner’s work in a GitHub Issue! The more thorough, the better—for both of you.

  Share your repo links with each other on Slack. It might be more useful to do this after your former partner has put in some work—so communicate/coordinate around that.

• When you are ready, send us your links as usual:

  Submission Form