Session Recording #
Reading Discussion #
Let’s start our fourth unit, Interface As Interface, with a discussion of our selected readings:
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I Am a Handle
Rob Giampietro, 2012 -
Sometimes It Looks Like a Duck,
Sometimes It Looks Like a Rabbit
Jack Balkin, Dan Michaelson, 2012
Further Reading #
Again we have some additional texts for you to reference on your own, over the next few weeks:
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The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman, 1988 (revised 2013) -
Laws of UX
Jon Yablonski, 2018 (ongoing) -
Folk Interfaces
Maggie Appleton, 2022
Our Fourth Project #
We’ll go through the rest your next project in detail:
Finally, Images #
Alright, it’s finally that time—let’s discuss images on the web:
A Quick Demo #
Then time-permitting, let’s get an image or two into a webpage!
- Add a JPG or two to our repo from last week
- Organize/move the files to a subfolder and update the
src - Add a remote one, for fun (or for work)
- Check it in and talk about filesize
- Use the image inside of the link
For Next Week #
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You’ll be completing the next phases of your Links project:
Connect with your classmates—both whom you are handing your collection over to, and whom you are receiving a collection from. Ask them what you need to get a feel for your the collection and the rest of your work. Add 10 items to your new, adopted channel to “get a feel for the water.”
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And then start into your code:
Project 4 Static Content Sketching
roughing out semantic DOM, pulling down examples from your channel for some blocks, and beginning with your styles. For next week, we want to see an example
of each content typeimage, text, link, and PDF and the start of your layout and design vocabulary. -
Make sure we have all your links, as is custom: