schedule

soongsil university / the Global School of Media

2017 Spring
On Design : Design for New Media

 

Week 1

introduction of the class

03.02,08

 

what to do today & overall introduction

  • get the required texts reserved in the library

Week 2

1. New Media and Interaction Design

03.09, 15

  • new media, new design
  • new media
  • interaction design
  • The past, the present, the future
  • ppt 1

Week 3

2. Design and Technology

03.16, 22

 

  • Conventional media
  • shifting to the internet
  • the paradigm shift
  • design and technology
  • a design vocabulary
  • ppt 2

Week 4

3. Text

03.23, 29

  • 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

03.30,
04.05

  • 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

04.06, 12

  • advantages of icons
  • disadvantages of icons
  • designing single icons, icon sets
  • icons or text?
  • *project1: Icon for “save.” make one JPG/RGB 100*100 pixels, resolution 75, filename: student number-name: due: April 20th, 3pm. send the file to me (jsy@ssu.ac.kr).
  • ppt 5
  • 6th : Guest Lecture: Jangwon Lee “Game Design: Artgame & Gameart

Week 7

6. Sound

04.13, 19

  • 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

04.20, 26*

*no class

  • light
  • perception of light
  • color effects
  • text and color
  • color associations
  • color in design
  • ppt 7
  •  
  • mid-term exam

Week 9

7. Color

04.27*, 05.03**

*no class
**holiday

  •  mid-term exam

Week 10

8. Video and Animation

05.04, 10

Week 11

9. Goals, Audience and Scope (GAS)

05.11, 17

  • goals
  • audience
  • scope
  • ppt 9

Week 12

10. Contexts

05.18, 24

  • the physical context
  • the user's context
  • other contexts
  • ppt 10
  • *Project 2 "Research on Problems in Designing New “save” icons“ Due: June 13th, Tuesday 3pm, jsy@ssu.ac.kr (student number-name.pdf) *Look at requirement.

Week 13

11. User Models

05.25, 31

  • user models
  • when it goes wrong, right
  • ppt 11
  • 31st : Guest Lecture:

Week 14

12.Feedback

06.01, 07

  • four-week feedback
  • feedback and user models
  • feedback in new media
  • designing feedback
  • problems with feedback
  • trust
  • ppt 12

Week 15

13. Structure

06.08, 14

  • structure and navigation
  • standard structures
  • which structure to use?
  • other structural issues
  • structure and content, which comes first?
  • ppt 13    ppt 14

Week 16

final term examination priod

06.15*, 21*

*no class

  • final-term exam