MMAS 320
INTERMEDIATE INTERACTIVE DESIGN
instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Zeis 214. Monday 1-2:30. Tuesday 1:30-3.
location: university of north carolina asheville
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CLASS-SPECIFIC

intro
syllabus
rough project calendar
attendance policy

major assignments
Art Movement Site (XHTML/CSS)
Expressive Character/Environment Project (Flash)

required texts
Don't Make Me Think (Krug)


RESOURCES

Bad Designs (Darnell)
A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design (Garrett)
The Psychology of Navigation (Garrett)
Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design (Shedroff)
Recipe for a Successful Website (Shedroff)
Web Site Usability Basics (Cloninger)
Symbol Signs (AIGA)
Designing Interactions (Moggridge)
Designing for Interaction (Saffer)
Dan Saffer Interview (Danzico/Saffer)
Information Literacy Resources at Ramsey Library
Ladislav Sutnar: Web Design Before the Internet (Heller)
Carnegie Mellon Masters in Interaction Design
a9 Senior User Interface Designer job description
Picture a CIty (Alsop Architects)
MS Paint (freeloveforum)

Creative Brief
pre-design deliverables: creative brief
creative brief questions (goto)
creative brief sample (goto)
project planner/design request form [pre-r.f.p.] (zeldman)
how to write a creative brief (McNamara)

Art Movement Sites
The Russian Avant-Garde Book [strong example]
Multimedia: From Wagner to VR [weaker example]

Expressive Characters/Environments
Rafaël Rozendaal
Angelo Plessas
Arcangel Constantini [automatic drawings]
sketch
the fragile circus (campbell)
samorost (1 * 2) / machinarium
hi-res
Champagne Valentine (Lillemon/Fontaine)

Experimental Interfaces
multi-touch interface (han)
Seadragon/Photosynth (arcas)
Elevator
Antenna
Asymtope
Imaginary Forces
dontclick.it
wooden mirror (Rozin)

Additional Books
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information* (Tufte)
Experience Design 1* (Shedroff)
The Design of Everyday Things* (Norman)
Emotional Design* (Norman)
About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design* (Cooper/Reimann)
The Elements of User Experience* (Garrett)
Information Architecture* (Wodtke)
Design Research* (Laurel)
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing* (Greenfield)
Thinking With Type* (Lupton)
Flash Math Creativity* (publisher: Friends Of Ed)
Flash to the Core* (Davis)

Flash
Flash Tutorials (DMDN)
Flash to the Core: An Interactive Sketchbook (Davis)

HTML/CSS
html demo page | css demo page

Typography
Designing with Type 5 (Craig)
Designing {with} Typography
a brief history of type (walsh)
typeface categories (kunz)
fonts by category (typepool)
idnetifont database


STUDENT SITES