VCDS2104-s20

Syllabus for Yasar University Design Methodologies, Spring 2020

Lecturer Daniele Savasta (daniele dot savasta at gmail dot com) in campus at xLab - Interaction Lab

Schedule

Week Date Subject Assignments
1 Feb 6 Introduction to Design Methodology
2 Feb 13 Recap, IDEO Mini Design Challenge, Brainstorming: Ideo Rules
3 Feb 20 Reading: How all startedReading: Munari, [Writing: What are Design Methodologies?]
4 Feb 27 Reading: How all started
5 Mar 5 Process and Methods exploration
6 Mar 12 Brainstorming techniques (365, Random input)
7 Mar 26 Thinking visually (Action verbs, Pictograms)
8 Apr 2 Watch Ellen Lupton, (Reading response)[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UOirJiqDZQhydTLYPL-c_6wB2IXMXH1j], Design: I will comment on your sketches and mark one of your sketches as promising. Proceed working on that pictogram and use it inside the design of your booklet cover. Complete the design before next class.

Compile the cover, your previous readings, this exercise in your booklet number its pages and upload before the next class 2 April. |

Further readings

(Four definitions of design)[https://uxdesign.cc/four-definitions-of-design-9e107fb057c5]

Ethical Rules

Academic integrity: Students are required to use their own ideas and skills in order to produce original works. Any image, typeface, text downloaded from the internet, if not shared under a Creative Commons License, is considered unauthorized. Therefore, any reproduction, representation, adaptation, translation and/or modification of someone else’s work, partial or total, is prohibited. Students may consult with other students for conceptual and debugging help while working on their code, but unless specified on the assignment, the final code submitted should be written, tested and documented by the student. The case of using code snippets from online sources is allowed up to being 10% of the student’s submission with proper comments in the submission referring to the original source. Any student observed to not have adhered to these rules, will be subject to disciplinary action.

License

The content of this project itself is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the MIT license.