soongsil university / the Global School of Media

2013 Spring
On Design : Design for New Media

 

Week 1 introduction of the class

03.06, .07*

*no class on 07

 

what to do today
  • get the required texts reserved in the library
Week 2 1. New Media and Interaction Design

03.13, 14

  • new media, new design
  • new media
  • interaction design
  • The past, the present, the future
  • ppt 1
Week 3 2. Design and Technology

03.20, 21

 

  • Conventional media
  • shifting to the internet
  • the paradigm shift
  • design and technology
  • a design vocabulary
  • ppt 2
Week 4 3. Text

03.27, 28

  • scannable text
  • writing consistent text
  • text length
  • links and meta-information
  • other meta-information
  • text and interaction
  • different languages
  • writing for changing content
  • ppt 3
Week 5 4. Layout

04.03.04

  • plain text
  • text with properties
  • listing and grouping
  • link layout
  • layout for structure
  • screeen positioning
  • graphic material
  • designing layout for change
  • ppt 4
Week 6 5. Icons

04.10, 11*

*no class on 11

  • advantages of icons
  • disadvantages of icons
  • designing single icons, icon sets
  • icons or text?
  • ppt 5
Week 7 6. Sound

04.17, 18

  • sound versus graphics
  • sound in the real-world
  • sound technology
  • sound design
  • using speech in new media
  • sound and speech as primary interaction
  • ppt 6
Week 8 mid-examination period

04.24*, 25*
*no class

  • mid-term exam
Week 9 7. Color

05.01, 02

  • light
  • perception of light
  • color effects
  • text and color
  • color associations
  • color in design
  • ppt 7
Week 10 8. Video and Animation

05.08, 09

Week 11 9. Goals, Audience and Scope (GAS)

05.15, 16

  • goals
  • audience
  • scope
  • ppt 9
  • 16th: Guest Artist's Lecture: Klega
Week 12 10. Contexts

05.22, 23

  • the physical context
  • the user's context
  • other contexts
  • ppt 10
  • 23rd: Guest Artist's Lecture: Jeonghoe Kim
Week 13 11. User Models

05.29, 30

  • user models
  • when it goies wrong, right
  • ppt 11
  • 29th: Guest Artist's Lecture: John Foyle
  • 30th: Guest Artist's Lecture: Yongju Cho
Week 14 12.Feedback

06.05, 06*

*no class on 06

  • four-week feedback
  • feedback and user models
  • feedback in new media
  • designing feedback
  • problems with feedback
  • trust
  • ppt 12
Week 15 13. Structure

06.12, 13

  • structure and navigation
  • standard structures
  • which structure to use?
  • other structural issues
  • structure and content, which comes first?
  • ppt 13
Week 16 final term examination priod

06.19*, 20*

*no class

  • final-term exam