HCI 472 HCI Design Fundamentals II
Summary
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In HCI 472, we will focus on the visual design in digital artifacts. Evaluate, critique and create digital artifacts (design system and pattern library) organized by design principles. Choose color, type, layout and imagery towards the creation of aesthetic and usable, responsive and accessible digital artifacts. Introduction to accessibility, information visualization and animation.
Learning Objectives
- Effectively apply and make choices about color, type, layout and imagery to create aesthetic and usable digital interfaces.
- Demonstrate how to effectively choose optimal means to encode data for information visualization.
- Articulate and demonstrate an understanding of the principles of animation.
- Show proficiency in the creation of accessible interactive digital responsive artifacts (design system and pattern library) using component libraries.
Texts
Recommended
- Thinking with Type | Ellen Lupton, 2010 | ISBN: 978-1568989693
- Logo Modernism | Jens Müller and R. Roger Remington| ISBN: 978-3836545303
- Designing Interface Animation: Improving the User Experience Through Animation | Val Head| 978-1933820323s
- NewsLetter: https://heydesigner.com/
Grading
- A = 94-100
- A- = 90-93
- B+ = 88-89
- B = 84-87
- B- = 80-83
- C+ = 78-79
- C = 74-77
- C- = 70-74
Prerequisites
Other requirements
- Rent or buy the Helvetica documentary
- You will need a way to post web-based assignements so you will need to pay for a URL and a web-hosting service (if you do not already). There are many options available. You will also need access to an FTP and text editing software. I have found that Cyberduck works well for FTP and there are many, many good text editors. I use Sublime Text - but it is not the top one by most accounts.
- Access to Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Supplemental instruction at LYNDA.COM is required.
Suggested materials
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