Agenda for today:

• Zen Counting Round 1
• Class overview (syllabus here)
• Introductions
• Create shared Code of Conduct
• Activity: What is interaction design?

Shared notes for today

Homework

• Turn in your introduction slideshow on Canvas
• Reading: A Vernacular Web
• Reading Leaders: Ana and Cameron
• Everyone else writes a discussion comment or question here. Reading Leaders, please prepare information on Olia Lialina and highlight examples of her work, in addition to contextualizing and summarizing the reading. Prepare comments and questions around this.

Agenda for today:

• Zen Counting Round 2
• Introductions Round 2
• Reading Discussion (and Lecture)
• Introduce Next Reading
• Interactive Storytelling
• Storytelling Activity

Shared notes for today

Homework

• Reading: The Cobweb, Can the Internet be Archived? — Jill Lepore
• Reading Leaders: Sofia, Jaq
• Everyone else! write a discussion! comment! or question!!!HERE. Reading Leaders, please prepare information on Jill Lepore and highlight examples of her work, in addition to contextualizing and summarizing the reading. Prepare comments and questions around this.
• Waste at least 30 minutes on the Internet (no social media, search the Wayback Machine or do an Internet Walk)
• Complete your Interactive Story
• Optional Reading: My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowedge. What could yours be?

Agenda for today:

• Zen Counting Take 3
• A few announcements
• The Cobweb discussion + lecture
• Design critique exercise
• Project 1 Introduction
• Storytime activity share

Shared notes for today

Homework

• Reading: Typography and the Screen – Loretta Staples
• Reading Leader: Kuhu
• Everyone else writes a discussion comment or question here. Reading Leaders, please prepare information on the author and highlight examples of her work, in addition to contextualizing and summarizing the reading. Prepare comments and questions around this.
• Watch Figma: Explore Ideas to learn the basics of how to use Figma to communicate initial ideas
• Due next Tuesday: select your reading for Stories as Networks and design three distinct design concepts for it. Each idea should include a title and a short description that explains the design inspiration and how it reflects the content, a wireframe of the site’s structure, and a gestural homepage sketch that showcases the typography and primary interaction of the site.

Agenda for today:

• Storytelling activity share
• Design critique exercise
• Loretta Staples discussion
• Figma Intro

Shared notes for today

Homework

• Due next Tuesday: select your reading for Stories as Networks and design three distinct design concepts for it. Each idea should include a title and a short description that explains the design inspiration and how it reflects the content, a wireframe of the site’s structure, and a gestural homepage sketch that showcases the typography and primary interaction of the site.

Agenda for today:

• Project 1 Ideas share/feedback
• Typography activity

Shared notes for today

Homework

• Choose one of your designs for Project 1 and finalize it. Be prepared to start having 1:1s with Fran
• Reading: Black Gooey Universe (PDF)
• Reading Leaders: Christine, Rohan
• Reading discussion notes here.
• Typography on the web readings
• http://webtypography.net/toc/
• https://prowebtype.com/

Agenda for today:

• Discuss Black Gooey Universe
• Typography activity discussion
• Figma Demo: Components
• Project Work session

Shared notes for today

Homework

• Reading: The Web's Grain
• Reading Leaders: TBD
• Reading discussion notes here.

Cancelled due to snow.

Remote class, Project One work session

Agenda for today:

• Discuss The Web's Grain
• Project Work session

Shared notes for today

Homework

• Continue working on your Stories as Networks projects. Critique next class!

Agenda for today:

• Announcement: Schedule changes
• Stories as Networks critiques!

Homework

• Touch grass!

Agenda for today:

• Announcement: Midterm check-ins
• Stories as Networks Crits and debrief
• Introduce Project 2: Elastic Collections
• Time Permitting: Collection Activity

Homework

• Read Sharing as Survival: Mindy Seu on the Cyberfeminism Index
• Comment in the Reading Discussion Doc
• Reading leader: Vanessa
• Due next Tuesday. Prepare three different ideas for the contents of your elastic collection. The content can be any type of media – photos, videos, animations, audio. For each idea, include a a written description of the contents, highlight your interest in it, three possible stories one could develop from this collection (does it connect to any broader discussions in visual culture, design, or beyond?), as well as an example of the visual component of the object. This can be done in Figma, in Google Slides, or a PDF.

Agenda for today:

• Discuss Mindy Sue on the Cyberfeminism Index
• Technical topics review

Notes for Today.


Homework

• Read Sharing as Survival: Mindy Seu on the Cyberfeminism Index
• Comment in the Reading Discussion Doc
• Reading leader: Vanessa

Agenda for today:

• Share and discuss Elastic Collection concepts
• Collections activity contiued

Notes for Today.


Homework

• Continue working on your Elastic Collections
• Continue your colletion process, house everything in a Google Sheet
• Choose one of your ideas and develop your design.
• Read Data Feminism: Chapter 2
• Comment in the Reading Discussion Doc
• Reading leader: TBD

Agenda for today:

• Discuss Data Feminism Chapter 2
• Collections activity contiued
• Work session


Notes for Today.


Homework

• Continue working on your Elastic Collections
• Continue your colletion process, house everything in a Google Sheet
• Choose one of your ideas and develop your design.
• due 4/09!
• Sign up for Midterm Evals the week after spring break!

Agenda for today:

• Midterm evals debrief
• Work session! Meet 1:1 with me as you'd like
• We will also be sharing our progress on our projects with eachother in small groups (some of the way through class)

Homework

• Continue working on your Elastic Collections

Agenda for today:

• Kickoff NYC in Data
• Silvio Lorusso lecture
• Elastic Collection work session

Homework

• Continue working on your Elastic Collections

Agenda for today:

• Elastic Collection critiques!

Homework

• Relax!

Agenda for today:

• Take a look at the rest of the year
• Go over reference doc
• Discussion: Critical view on data visualization
• NYC in Data Group activity

Homework

• Due next Tuesday
• Handmade Visualization: Working exclusively with analog materials (pen, paper, crayons, stickers…) create your own handmade visualization. The visualization should highlight something you did this week through data. You can use any of the visualization examples we looked at today. Photograph or scan your example save it onto a Figma board, I will collect it on Canvas next time we meet.
• Read Jill Lepore Data Delusion. Download link if you can't access it
• Due next Thursday
• Look through the available data sets on NYC Open Data, identify one data set that you would like to work with. Look through the data like we did in class with the New York City data today and identify three possible stories you would like to focus on. Communicate which data points you can use. Also, find a journalistic story that utilizes your data set. This can be housed in a google doc, Figma board, Dropbox Paper, or google slides.

Agenda for today:

• Handmade Visualizations review
• More looking at and discussing visualizations
• Formalist notes on data visualizatoin

Homework

• Due this Thursday
• Look through the available data sets on NYC Open Data, identify one data set that you would like to work with. Look through the data like we did in class with the New York City data today and identify three possible stories you would like to focus on. Communicate which data points you can use. Also, find a journalistic story that utilizes your data set. This can be housed in a google doc, Figma board, Dropbox Paper, or google slides.

Agenda for today:

• Choose reading leader for next reading! Who hasn't gone yet...
• Review Data in NYC designs
• (Time permitting) How to document work digitally

Homework

• Read Jill Lepore Data Delusion and comment in the reading discussion notes.
• Download link if you can't access it
• Reading discussion notes here.

Agenda for today:

• Talk about Sophomore Review - May 9th
• Discuss Jill Lepore - Data Delusion
• Go over APIs
• (Time permitting) How to document work digitally

Homework

• TBD (depending on what we do today)

Agenda for today:

• How to document work digitally
• Project 3 work session

Homework

• Continue working on your Project 3 and Sophomore Work Collection

Agenda for today:

• Talk about Sophomore Work Review
• Talk about Palestine encampments
• Project 3 work session!

Homework

• Continue working on your Project 3 and Sophomore Work Collection

Agenda for today:

• Project 3 work session!

Homework

• Continue working on your Project 3 and Sophomore Work Collection

Agenda for today:

• Project 3 Critique! (for some people)

Homework

• Continue working on your Project 3 and Sophomore Work Collection