Visc404 Kirkland Syllabus v1.0 20170801
VISC 404, 'Design for Social Interaction, Fall 2017
Monday / Wednesday @ 2:30-05:20pm
Matt Kirkland /
mattk@ku.edu /
Slack @matt
For each text below, you'll need to write a short resonse and post it to your site. With each post, you might consider including the date of your writing, and a link to the text itself.
You can write anything you like, but it should be intelligble to someone who hasn't read the source material, and it must include at least:
This shouldn't take you more than say, 30 minutes to write and post something.
| Week | Text |
|---|---|
| 1 | When We Build, Wilson Miner |
| 2 | The Web's Grain, Frank Chimero (If you liked this, you should check out Frank's book The Shape of Design) |
| 3 | How to Make Sense of Any Mess, chapters 1-3, Abby Covert
and if you wanted a refresher on Don Norman, here's a good summary of The Design of Everyday Things |
| 4 | Just Enough Research, Erika Hall |
| 5 | Words as Material, Nicole Fenton |
| 6 | Ten Thousand Years, Roman Mars / 99pi Listen to the podcast episode, don't just skim the attached blog post, please. |
| 7 | A Crash Course in UI Design, Jeff Wang |
| 8 | 10 things you need to learn in design school... but really I recommend following this whole 'Dear Design Student' series. |
| 9 | How to Get Startup Ideas, Paul Graham |
| 10 | Don't Make Me Think chapters 1-5, Steve Krug |
| 11 | Don't Make Me Think chapters 6-7, Steve Krug |
| 12 | Don't Make Me Think chapters 8-9, Steve Krug |
| 132 | Don't Make Me Think chapters 10-12, Steve Krug |