(hopefully a little better than you do now)

Ben Samuels-Kalow

Understanding
by Design
Understanding
by
Design

This is what we ask students to do on paper. It looks terrible on the web.

Understanding
by
Design

This is what students will do, left do their own devices.

Design is highly opinionated.

You can hate this font, and that's ok. Let's see if we can agree on some ground rules, or at least a shared set of principles.

Let's watch a Ted Talk!
  1. Keep it simple
  2. Use meaningful symbolism
  3. Use 2-3 basic colors & fonts
  4. Don’t have writing you can’t read
  5. Be distinctive, or be related

The marriage of good design and civic pride is something that we need in all places.

Roman Mars

Give

a

  1. Design and build a responsive web site, for yourself, using Github Pages and Bootstrap.
  2. Explore new HTML/CSS/JS techniques to enhance the design of your web site.
  3. Profit
Did you notice anything about these slides?

They're not slides! Everything is HTML/CSS/JavaScript.


Let's get started.