Core Interaction

Week 2

1/30 – 2/3

Friday, Lab

🪩 Highlight:

Conditional Design


📝❌ Lecture: Intro to CSS

→ A deeper dive into the various workings of Cascading Style Sheets.


💻 Demo: Github Pages

→ An introduction to a collaborative software platform.

→ By the end of class, everyone should have their new Github Page set up. This will be the homepage for your Core 2 Interaction studio projects and lab assignments. Can everyone add their github.io urls to the table in Github Pages?


📚 Assignment: Reverse Engineer HTML/CSS Structure

→ This assignment is less about what you already know and more about what you can learn about as you go.

→ For reference, Intro to HTML, Intro to CSS

Due: Friday 10


Thursday, Studio

Homework

  • Due on Tuesday: select your reading for Stories as Networks and design three distinct design concepts for it. Each idea should include a title and a short description that explains the design inspiration and how it reflects the content, a wireframe of the site’s structure, and a gestural homepage sketch that showcases the typography and primary interaction of the site.
  • Submit the storytelling activity. Obtain a URL after lab class and submit it on Canvas.

Tuesday, Studio

Homework

  • Due on Thursday: Reading Typography and the Screen – Loretta Staples and write a discussion comment or question. Kuhu will be the reading presenter.
  • Due on Tuesday: select your reading for Stories as Networks and design three distinct design concepts for it. Each idea should include a title and a short description that explains the design inspiration and how it reflects the content, a wireframe of the site’s structure, and a gestural homepage sketch that showcases the typography and primary interaction of the site.
  • Submit the storytelling activity. Obtain a URL after lab class and submit it on Canvas.