MMAS 320
INTERMEDIATE INTERACTIVE DESIGN
instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Zeis 211. Mon. 11:30-1 and Tues. 12:30-2:00
location: university of north carolina asheville
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CLASS-SPECIFIC

intro
syllabus
rough project calendar

major assignments
Research and Modeling Deliverables
Site Redesign

required texts
Designing for Interaction (Saffer)
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)

Competetive Analysis for Redesign
current unca site
current site templates
older versions of unca site at archive.org
older versions of warren wilson site
UNCA front page redesign mockups (2006 faculty committee)
UNCA site redesign mockups (former MMAS 320 students)
unc chapel hill * uncg * uncw * uncp * appalachian state * wcu * uga * warren wilson * risd * scad

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

Commerce
interactive design jobs: surfstation * krop * authentic jobs
Asheville Media Arts Project
Asheville Web Design Companies
web design salary survey 2007 (a list apart)


STUDENT SITES

Yancey: unca.edu home page redesign
Margaret: unca.edu home page redesign
Nic: unca.edu home page redesign
Michael: unca.edu home page redesign
Cattlin: unca.edu home page redesign
Matt: unca.edu home page redesign
Jesse: unca.edu home page redesign
Julia: unca.edu home page redesign
Tegan: unca.edu home page redesign
Kenny: unca.edu home page redesign
Nathan: unca.edu home page redesign
Anna: unca.edu home page redesign