ART 2110 - Foundations of Interactive Design

3 hrs

This studio course investigates the practice of interactive design from both front and back-end perspectives. User-experience and user-interface design techniques are employed to develop online interactive content. Topics introduced in this course are image and type for the web, HTML basics, development, testing and updating of effective interfaces, visual, navigational and structural approaches to CSS, visual hierarchy, basic animation for online content, image and file preparation and historical perspectives in interactive design. Additionally, students engage in written and verbal communication for ideation and presentation. Lectures, readings, class demonstrations, group exercises and writing assignments are used