Project 3

🗓️ Due Tuesday, April 28

Project Description

The internet is one of the most prevalent and powerful communication technologies today, if not the most powerful. In the final project, you will create a digital platform for people to exchange information, goods, and services in a time of need. By connecting to a data management system, your website will collect, store, and publish the collected information from its users, and benefit the group as a whole.

Start from identifying a group of named, real-life audiences, and review 3-4 user archetypes within the group (e.g. leaders, people with needs, helpers). Create a diagram of how they would interact with each other, and what information they would collect and share. Map at least one user journey that shows the necessary steps and touch points in their interaction with the platform to accomplish their goals. Consider how your web app can address the needs of this specific user group, and how you can clarify or highlight certain areas of the interface to support this goal.

Consider:

• Who are the contributing users?
• Who are the non-contributing users? How would you prompt them to potentially contribute
• What are the benefits the project does to the group as a whole?
• What steps are there from collecting the data to publishing it?
• Will the website evolve with the content collection evolve over time?
• If technical difficulty is anticipated at any of the steps, what are some alternative work arounds? Be creative!

Project 2

🗓️ Due Tuesday, March 24 (upon return from spring break)

Project Description

Identify an HTML element as your interface element, and create a website that comprises 25 instances of this interface element, either visually or literally.

• Understand the semantic meaning and inherited styles, interactions, and functions of the HTML element; research its origin and common usages, and curate a content that complements, deviates, or subverts its common use.
• Compile all the instances you’ve created as components on a single page, you will then add your page to a class repository that we'll establish collectively as a component library.