Project Two :: Schedule til the end!

The end is nigh! Use your time wisely making your site function and getting some example pieces in there. The final should represent a tight, functioning, digital "wireframe" that hopefully just needs some fine-tuning and sweet design to be presentable.

Today is work day and I will be in a printmaking critique for most of our class. So get busy.

• Friday Nov 20: production
• Wed/Frid Nov 20/25 Thanksgiving: production
• Wed Nov 2: production
• Friday Nov 4: critique!

• Reading: "The Language of New Media" pp 78-93 Cinema, HCI: Representation vs Control
  Reading response on your blog. label post "MX"
• Reading: "The Language of New Media" pp 94-103 The Screen and the User, a Screens' Genealogy
  Reading response on your blog. label post "MX"
  

Project 2 :: Direction, Task Scenario & Wireframes

In class

• Post any visual iterations to your blog, determine a direction to pursue.
• Create task scenarios to flesh out a range of screens that storyboard the interaction process.
• Roughly determine portfolio content -- 10-15 pieces. Focus more on categories of work, rather than specific pieces.

Homework

• Refine task scenario sketches, add more screens and task scenarios as needed to achieve a full set of possible wireframed screens.
• Post visual iterations to your blog, determine a direction to pursue.
• Reading: "The Language of New Media" pp 78-93 cinema, HCI: Representation vs Control
• Reading response on your blog. label post "MX"

Project 2 :: Reading Responses

To reinforce the importance of reading theory and criticism, you are required to write a response to each reading for this project (four total) from "The Language of New Media". Each response will be worth 10 25 points (the scale I use for all tasks, then filtered through percentage of grade: in this case 5%), and should be posted to your blog with the label "MX".

An excellent response does the following:

• notes new concepts learned in the passage
• makes connections between the reading and your MX projects
• makes connections between the reading and non-MX readings/experiences
• does all of the above concisely 

Lesser responses that exclude portions of the above will decrease in points earned.

Project Two :: Round-Up Crit

In class

• discuss reading
• group crit on all rapid prototypes. 10 min each, max.

Homework

• Revise idea based on crit feedback. Go back to sketch mode, iterating widely and creating a range of wireframe layouts that utilize your chosen functionality.
• Reading: The Language of New Media, pp 63-78 (stop at "Cinema" subsection)
  The reading is at the library under my reserves, or you can get a PDF through the kcai library site (direct link). The reading is called "The Interface" and the password is "media".

Blogs

• Post two screen grabs of each of your ideas, each showing different states of interaction. That will give you a rough total of six screen grabs -- show at least 3 ideas, more if you have 'em. Provide a brief explanation for how each idea works to supplement your images.

Project Two :: Round Up

In class

• 15 min: find+share
• finalize test 3 by end of class. show idea quickly
• revise/refine previous directions

Homework

• refine all tests and prep for group crit. group crit will be used to select one direction to pursue.
• reading: Windows & Mirrors, from The myth of transparency 48-50 to Another strategy 55-56

Project Two :: Round 3 Iterations

In class

• 15 min: find+share
• 30 min: discuss reading
• 50 min: finalize test 2. show idea quickly, one-on-one. 
• 50 min: brainstorm round 3

Homework

• Continue brainstorm/rapid prototype #3.
  Tests can be html/css/javascript vs flash, or a combination of both
• Reading: Windows & Mirrors:
  from the history of disappearing pp 34-38 to the macintosh interface 44-48

FIND + SHARE

Use the comments of this post to share links to sites, articles or videos that are relevant to our projects and the principles of Web 2.0, or that are just plain awesome, whatever your criteria may be! We will then share and discuss our links regularly in class.

Project Two :: Round 2 Iterations

In class

• 15 min: find+share
• 1 hour: for coding / finishing flash test #1
• 1 hour: create interaction model(s) in a 3 dimensional model

Homework

• Continue brainstorm / rapid prototype #2.
  Tests can be html/css/javascript vs flash, or a combination of both.
• Reading: Windows & Mirrors, from Introduction 2-7, to Wooden Mirror 32-34 on e-reserve
• Post 3d interaction models to blogs

To access e-reserves complete the following steps:

-log onto the KCAI Library Catalog

-under Other Options/Course Reserves: choose instructor name

-search by the instructors last name (eppelheimer)

-select "multimedia experience"

-select "windows and mirrors"

-Log-in to the Library Catalog (enter your name, campus ID and campus code) and then it asks you to enter your Course Password -- media