IXD414, 'Design Systems', Spring 2025
MW / 3:20-05:50pm / Chalmers 307
Matt Kirkland / mattk@ku.edu

IXD414 - Designing with Systems

This is a studio course about designing digital products for the screen, with an emphasis on designing with systems in mind. This syllabus will be updated with more information throughout the semester. I'll let you know in class about updates.

Questions? mattk@ku.edu.

Day 022

April 14 2025

It's Monday.

  • Hello
  • Teach an Old Person
  • No class Wednesday (but hw still due on your site)
  • Your Site is Your Final
  • Kick off Niche, Please

DUE Wednesday Posted to your site by 3.20pm. Write up your pitch and a work plan.

    Your pitch should include:
  • Here's the audience you're serving
  • Here's where you can contact them
  • What problem you can solve with some new service or tool
  • How your niche audience will be better off with your new thing
    Your work plan should include:
  • A list of deliverables. What steps do you need to pull this off? What design artifacts will result? (remember that's at minimum a final protype, two rounds of documented user testing, and your design system, but you will definitely need to make other things in between)
  • A schedule, culiminating in a final presentation on May 7. We're meeting six more times before the end of the semester; what will you have done by each class? I want YOU to propose what you'll have done by each class period, and