3. The reading
For today, I had you read a piece from
Computers & Composition entitled “
About Face.” It was written
collaboratively by a group of folks I
studied with at Michigan State.
4. I know it’s a little dense
So for this first pass at it (we’ll look at this again
when we start talking about the PW website,
our large web project), I’m going to pull out
some key ideas I want you to think through and
try to apply to this brochure project.
5. Key point 1:
“The web sites we visited, generally, do not portray
the expertise we know is theorized, researched,
and practiced daily by the individuals comprising
our field.”
From page 4 of the PDF.
6. Key point 2:
There’s a lack of student presence in
these sorts of documents.
From page 5 of the PDF.
8. Key point 4:
“What we have labeled a cultural lens relates to the
control exercised over the shape of departments based
on institutional cultures and power dynamics; this
exercise of power can be read, in part, by presences and
absences…”
From page 5 of the PDF.
9. Key point 5:
“Sites should engage users’ senses and the ways users
might make meaning through them. …a focus on the
user’s senses can bring a more user-centered and
human-centered approach to design, to the
representation of information, to interaction, and to
usability.”
From page 11 of the PDF.
10. So… based on that…
Look over your current plans.
How can those five things guide
you to make choices for the
best possible brochure design?
11. Let’s spend the rest of class
working in your teams.
Remember, we need to be
making progress. I’d like to see
something that looks like a
starting design next week.
12. We had more design task
confusion.
Task six is due this Friday.
th
October 18 .
Task seven is due the next
week.
13. On Wednesday
We will talk about your first set of design
tasks and look at a few, then we’ll work. No
reading (the ones on the syllabus are going
to move)
