Syllabus v3.0 20210127

ADS 560 / VISC 525, Designing Digital Products, Spring 2021
Tuesday / Thursday @ 3:20-5:50pm
Matt Kirkland / mattk@ku.edu / Zoom Link

Week 1

February 2 / 4

Let's Get Started

Here's what we'll cover the first week!

• Intro
• Who are you? Who is Matt?
• Course Format / Syllabus Review
• Keeping a course website
• Crash Course / refresher on Two Design Toolkits
• Teach an Old Person
• Kick off Inventory Project
• Reading between the lines of the project brief for requirements
• User Stories

Resources

• Jesse James Garret's Elements of User Experience Chart
• JJG EUE, chapter 2
• If you don't have a website already, just use Notion - it's easy and pretty bulletproof.

Assignment

For Tuesday February 9 at 8AM central time: Start adding content to your site!
• Make a section for readings. Write your response to the Minor talk. Make sure these are dated and reverse chron, please!
• Make a separate section for the Inventory project!
• Choose your coffee brand. Collect some brand assets and any references like 'here's their logo, they use X colors, packaging looks like this, the vibe is generally X,'