Heather Shaw
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Curry College
hshaw0609@curry.edu
heathershawdesign.com
Sarah Smith
Instructional Technologist
ssmith0707@curry.edu
almyraonline.com/blog
enCode / deCode / reCode
Intro. to Interactive Media Workshop
Monday July 19 — Friday July 23 2010
Prepared for the Higher Education Press (HEP) Beijing, China
Workshop Resources
Technology Specifications
- access to desktop computer or laptop
- Adobe CS4 (or CS3) Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver
- Printer (color or black and white)
- Internet access
Supplies
- 8.5" x 11" Paper text and card stock (for book prototyping)
- Scissors
- Metal-edge, cork-back ruler
- Cutting Surface
- Bone folder or burnisher
- Awl
- Hole punch
- Stapler
- Exactos
- Large sewing needle (for book binding)
- Embroidery floss, string, or waxed thread (for bookbinding)
- Rubber bands
- Stick or small piece of bamboo
- Paper clips
- Pencils
- Eraser
- Glue stick
- Tracing paper (for sketching and wireframing)
Links
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
International community that works together to develop web standards. A great resource for tutorials and all things web.
W3C Validator
Checks markup validity of webpages and lists any errors. A great resource for validating webpages.
Browsershots
Checks compatibility of a site across several web engines.
A List Apart
“For people who make websites.”
www.useit.com
Jakob Nielson’s website on web usability
Adobe kuler
Kuler color selector. A great resource for students developing a color palettes.
Visual Complexity
Really beautiful data visualizations.
Information Architects
More beautiful data visualizations
Recommended Books
Web Design and Development
Krug, Steve. Don’t Make Me Think. A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. New Riders, 2000.
Cederholm, Dan. Bulletproof Web Design. New Riders 2008.
Moock, Colin. Essential Actionscript 3.0. O’Reilly, 2007.
Shupe, Rich with Rosser, Zevan. Learning Actionscript 3.0. O’Reilly, 2008.
Weakley, Russ. CSS in 10 Minutes. SAMS, 2006.
York, Richard. Beginning CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design. Wiley Publishing Inc., 2007.
Bookbinding
Diehn, Gwen. Making Books That Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist + Turn. Lark Books, 2006.
Information Design
Wurman, Richard Saul. Information Anxiety 2. QUE, 2001.
Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, 1990.
Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative.
Graphics Press, 1997.
Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, 2001.