Week Three!!! Can Technology Save us from Technology?

Making Material Design

 

How to be “Team Human” in the digital future | Douglas Rushkoff

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE PERILS OF LOOKING FOR ‘LIKES’ Douglas Rushkoff Blog

https://rushkoff.com/social-media-and-the-perils-of-looking-for-likes/

Homework:

Please complete reading the following article and write reading response (.5 -1 page)

Behavioral Design Makes It Easy to Do ‘the Right Thing’

Rooted in human psychology, this design framework can motivate users to change their habits.

Jeff Link

 

 

please watch the Social Dilemma and write a review (1 Page)

The Social Dilemma | Full Feature | Netflix –

We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen. It is available on youtube:

AND please complete A and B

PRODUCTION:
App Development

Preparation: 

A) Think of a social problem (psychological, physical, economic) created by a social media site or a web service. Describe it and discuss how it contributes to this issue. (.5 page)

B) Follow the OUTLINE POINTS below and write a Draft for your PROPOSAL (1 page)

1. Propose an App that will help with an aspect of the issue that was identified.

2. Decide the FEATURES of your app.

3. Identify TARGET USERS.

5. Determine the platforms (iOS and/or Android) Note: Make it up, but give a reasonable explanation.

C) Sketch the WIREFRAME for your Mobile App in your sketchbook AND create wireframe using Miro or Illustrator

 

 

 

Critical Response Process

Developed by Liz Lerman this is the process we will be using to offer feedback.

Step 1. Statements of Meaning

Responders state what was meaningful, evocative, interesting, exciting, and/or striking in the work they have just witnessed.

Step 2. Artist as Questioner

The artist asks questions about the work. In answering, responders stay on topic with the question and may express opinions in direct response to the artist’s questions.

Step 3. Neutral Questions

Responders ask neutral questions about the work, and the artist responds. Questions are neutral when they do not have an opinion couched in them.

This step is one of the most fundamental, challenging, and misunderstood steps of Critical Response Process.

Step 4. Opinion Time

Responders state opinions, given permission from the artist; the artist has the option to say no.

Week Two –

Exquisite Corpse 2000 Jake Chapman and Dinos Chapman born 1966, born 1962 Purchased 2000 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P78459Exquisite Corpse 2000 Jake Chapman and Dinos Chapman born 1966, born 1962 Purchased 2000 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P78459

Overview:

Web Design:

Steps to conceptualizing a site

  • Research and Discovery
  • Content Inventory
  • Site Mapping
  • Wireframing
  • Usability
  • Prototyping

Concept Document using Design Thinking –

  • title
  • name
  • date
  • description

Design thinking Steps:

  • Empathize
  • Define
  • Ideation
  • Prototype (sketch)
  • Test (describe)

Wireframing Class/Homework:

  • 5 sketches (either by hand or very quickly on Miro
  • 3 different versions of wireframes on Miro or illustrator (choose one final)
  • One mood board
  • Design on illustrator the landing page, one “about” page and one 404 page (be creative)

Viewings:

My Boyfriend Came Back From the War, 1996 by Olia Lialina

WAYFINDER by Matt DesLauriers

Website Redesign – Charlie Marie TV

Miro Download

Welcome! WEEK 1

Hello and Welcome!

Please find our permanent class Zoom link below. 

Design with purpose and with humans at the center of the process. Here are a few projects that are at the intersection of art and technology: 

Eye Writer

Graffiti Research LabTempt1Evan RothChris SugrueZach Lieberman,Theo Watson and James Powderly

Mine Kafon | Callum Cooper: A short documentary portrait on a designer who has created a low cost solution to landmine clearance. 

 

Tim Brown’s 2009 Ted talk 

Design Thinking PDF from Stanford University 

 

Homework: 

Website Analysis and Reverse Engineering
– Find an arts or cultural organization that serves your neighborhood or your borough.
– Check their website. 
– Determine the parts, segments or pages of the website and write them down in your sketch book.
– Using your sketchbook, sketch the Site Map of the website.
– Using a vector based application (Illustrator or any other open software) translate your sketched site map to a Digital Site Map. 

Read:

Before Everyone Was Talking About Decentralization, Decentralization Was Talking to Everyone by Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Amelia Winger-Bearskin and watch her talk here

Write a reading response. Consider how storytelling is connected to Amelia’s culture. How do you define or understand storytelling today? How does your culture use storytelling? 

 

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OpenLab Blog instructions:

  1. Customize your page with a responsive theme that supports multimedia, an original header, personalized colors, title, and tagline. Your header can be a photograph that you recently took or an image that you have designed. Be aware of the ideal pixel size as you design a header.
  2. Create an “About Me” page. This should be a simple bio that reflects who you are. You may also include a photograph.
  3. Create your first post which can simply be a bit of text welcoming us to your site. Feel free to upload a photo etc.