soongsil university / the Global School of Media

2015 Spring
On Design : Design for New Media

 

Week 1 introduction of the class

03.03,05*

*no class on 05

 

what to do today
  • get the required texts reserved in the library
Week 2 1. New Media and Interaction Design

03.10, 12

  • new media, new design
  • new media
  • interaction design
  • The past, the present, the future
  • ppt 1
Week 3 2. Design and Technology

03.17, 19

 

  • Conventional media
  • shifting to the internet
  • the paradigm shift
  • design and technology
  • a design vocabulary
  • ppt 2
Week 4 3. Text

03.24, 26

  • scannable text
  • writing consistent text
  • text length
  • links and meta-information
  • other meta-information
  • text and interaction
  • different languages
  • writing for changing content
  • ppt 3
Week 5 4. Layout

03.31, 04.02

  • plain text
  • text with properties
  • listing and grouping
  • link layout
  • layout for structure
  • screeen positioning
  • graphic material
  • designing layout for change
  • ppt 4
Week 6 5. Icons

04.07, 09

  • advantages of icons
  • disadvantages of icons
  • designing single icons, icon sets
  • icons or text?
  • *project1: Icons for the room: choose one room in 5th and 6th floors.then, make one JPG/RGB 100*100 pixels, resolution 75.: due: April 25th sat 3pm. send the file to me (jsy@ssu.ac.kr).
  • ppt 5
Week 7 6. Sound

04.14, 16

  • sound versus graphics
  • sound in the real-world
  • sound technology
  • sound design
  • using speech in new media
  • sound and speech as primary interaction
  • ppt 6
Week 8 mid-examination period

04.21*, 23*
*no class

  • mid-term exam
Week 9 7. Color

04.28, 30

  • light
  • perception of light
  • color effects
  • text and color
  • color associations
  • color in design
  • ppt 7
Week 10 8. Video and Animation

05.05*, 07

*no class on 05

Week 11 9. Goals, Audience and Scope (GAS)

05.12, 14

  • goals
  • audience
  • scope
  • ppt 9
Week 12 10. Contexts

05.19, 21

  • the physical context
  • the user's context
  • other contexts
  • ppt 10
Week 13 11. User Models

05.26, 28

  • user models
  • when it goies wrong, right
  • ppt 11
  • 26th: Guest Lecture: On IoT Project, "Cubin" by Jongcheon Shin and Jangwon Lee
Week 14 12.Feedback

06.02, 04

  • four-week feedback
  • feedback and user models
  • feedback in new media
  • designing feedback
  • problems with feedback
  • trust
  • ppt 12
  • *Project 2 "How to make walking around Jeonghyesa pleasantly?" Group project : 5 persons or less Due: June 8th, 3pm, jsy@ssu.ac.kr (Cover 1 + 6pages, .ppt)
Week 15 13. Structure

06.09, 11

  • structure and navigation
  • standard structures
  • which structure to use?
  • other structural issues
  • structure and content, which comes first?
  • ppt 13
Week 16 final term examination priod

06.16*, 18*

*no class

  • final-term exam