Capstone Project: Introduction

So What Was the Point?

Sure, OK, technical stuff. Using some programs. Watching me not be able to use programs.

But what else?

Broad Questions We've Explored

• What can the history of the web tell us about design?
• What are the raw materials that we use to build on the web?
• How can you define the audience for a project?
• What makes for a good design on the web?
• What are the intersections between design and differing needs among people?
• How can we organize our information to help people seeing our design?
• What are the core atoms that we can build into organisms and pages?
• What are some ways to do and present pre-work before we get to the difficult act of doing?

Final Project

Develop and present a website to help define the core concepts from the class using the tools and methods that we've discussed over the past two months.

Core Deliverable

A website built on Glitch ready to present on 4/25/24.

Criteria for the Website

• The site's code has to validate using the W3C Validator Tool.
• The site has to pass all tests on the WAVE accessibility tester.
• The site needs to represent and highlight the concepts from the ART 470 class. What that means is up to us.

Presenting Your Work

On the last day of classes (Apr 29), you'll present and answer questions about the parts of the site you worked on and the design process leading to those choices.

Ideas of Things to Present

• Mockups and prototypes, showing how things changed as higher fidelity was needed.
• Audience and user research, showing the initial and final ways the site achieves its goal.
• Applications of concepts like hypertext, user-centered design, and information architecture.
• Sources of ideas and code snippets.

Grading Criteria

One letter grade each for presenting your proficiency each of the design process stages we go through:

1. Audience Research
2. Prototyping
3. Accessibility
4. Code Implementation

What I Will Do

You define the copy sections and what they need to say or what function it has. I will write it for y'all's approval.

You get a design or feature 90% of the way there, I will help you get unstuck to keep production going.

You design and implement a feature, I will check for accessibility and give any additional requirements.

How Class Will Go

Present where we're at, what we've worked on, what blockers we have to our work.

Brainstorm on the next steps for the design process.

Free working "studio" time for questions, working, etc.