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09 March 2021

preps | design thoughts | accessible design



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Class Schedule

Basics | sessions 01-03
  1. 19 Jan intro and clients | lecture | labs
  2. 26 Jan servers and command line | lecture | labs
  3. 02 Feb networks and protocols | lecture | labs
Web Development | sessions 04-08

  1. 09 Feb structural layer | lecture | labs
  2. 16 Feb presentational layer | lecture | labs
  3. 23 Feb using a structure | lecture | labs
  4. 02 Mar behavioral layer | lecture | labs
  5. 09 Mar design thoughts | lecture | labs
Dealing with Markup | sessions 09-10
  1. 16 Mar control objects and display | lecture | labs
  2. 23 Mar tools that read markup | lecture | labs
Working with data | sessions 11-14
  1. 30 Mar formulas, functions, vectors | lecture | labs
  2. 06 Apr data display | lecture | labs
  3. 13 Apr manipulate data sets | lecture | labs
  4. 20 Apr relational data bases | lecture | labs
Presentations | sessions 15-16
  1. 27 Apr designing a presentation | lecture | labs
  2. 04 May delivering a presentation | lecture | labs


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Think about your site design, in terms of accessibility.

To prepare for the images & design topics

For the design component, think first about accessibility by looking over Introduction to Web Accessibility by the W3C W3C accessitility logo

Web Style Guide

And then, in the Web Style Guide by Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton glance over Chapter 7, Interface Design

And then, think about design in the larger sense, how good design helps us do what we need to do, and poor design hinders us. Think about it while planning your site.

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Other items relevant to today's class

  1. Affordances and Design
  2. Designing for Readability – A Guide to Web Typography (with Infographic)a>
  3. 5 Principles of Visual-Design in UX
  4. A beautifully illustrated glossary of typographic terms you should know

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09 March lecture | preps | thoughts | accessiblity