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Wednesdays: Seminar:Interactive Thinking, Analysis, and Development Lab

Everyone is required to have Blog for this course. You will be required to read our reading due for each week and write a response to each of the articles. Our Seminar class days will be spent discussing, sharing, debating, and looking together. You will be ask to contribute to this format during each class. Believe me when I say that I take note of those you chose to check out of our inclass discussions.


Themes
1. Interaction Design: Mapping interactive elements through play

- Knowledge Mapping
readings:

-Prototyping
readings:
Experience_Prototyping.pdf
Prototyping is the Shorthand of Design.pdf


2. Interactive Design Process: Project based process

- Analysis and Defining a Project
reading:
ActionableAnalytics.PDF

- Design Research
reading:
InformingOurIntution.PDF
GoingDeeperSeeingFurther.PDF

- Design Process
IDEO and it’s Process
reading: http://www.ideo.com/thinking/approach/

- Inspirations
reading:

QuestionEverything.PDF

- Interactive Design
readings: InteractionsIDEO.pdf

- Design and Managing Change
readings: Managing Change.pdf

3. Know your technology, Know your Audience

- Semantic, Hierarchical Mark-Up Structures
reading:

PresentationLayersAccessibility.PDF

- SEO- Search Engine Optimization
reading: SOFA.PDF

- Social Influence and Audiences
reading:

Understanding those Peer Influencers
From Complexity to Simplicity

4. Content and Information Architecture

- Content Strategy
readings: 

Content Strategy.PDF
more to come still in this theme.


5. Final Presentations

We will arrange class into teams of four. Each presentation is composed for the following:

- Integrate readings
- Select a client website and audience

- Collect resources and research
- Write an analysis and project brief for website

- Wireframe new design concepts