Fall 2021 ︎ SUNY Purchase ︎ (DES3090) Interactive & Experience Design
Schedule Overview
(schedule is subject to change based on your feedback and necessity)
Week 01 ︎ 09/02/2021 ︎
- Introductions & Expectations
- Introduction to Project: What’s on Top of the Deck?
- Introduction to Knitting Circle: Python pt.0, installing + testing
- Introduction to Viewing Party: Darmok
- HW︎
- Install Mu and get Circuit Python Express working. Upload a screenshot of Mu working and detecting the CPE and the CPE working.
- Complete Project: What’s on Top of the Deck?
- Watch and take notes on Darmok
Week 02 ︎09/09/2021 ︎
- Viewing party: work, alternative input systems
- Discussion for Viewing Party: Darmok
- Introduction to Project: Action at a Distance
- Knitting Circle: Python pt.1, intro + lights + ifs
- HW ︎
- Start ideating/research for Project: Action at a Distance
- Complete and upload code and documentation for Knitting Circle: Python pt.1, intro + lights + ifs
Week 03 ︎ 09/16/2021 ︎
- Spiel: GUI history + doors and handles
- Knitting Circle: Python pt.1, intro + lights + ifs
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Knitting Circle: Python pt.2, debugging, more ifs + more switches
Week 04 ︎ 09/23/2021 ︎
- Knitting Circle: Python pt.2, debugging, more ifs + more switches
- Individual check-ins: Python & Project: Action at a Distance
- HW︎︎︎
- Practice Python coding and review past examples
- Continue work on Project: Action at a Distance
Week 05 ︎ 09/30/2021 ︎
- Viewing Party: interfaces in games & fiction
- Knitting Circle: Python pt.3, working with other code & functions
- Individual check-ins and follow-ups: Python & Project: Action at a Distance
- HW︎︎︎
- Practice Python coding and review past examples
- Continue work on Project: Action at a Distance
Week 06 ︎ 10/07/2021 ︎
- “Dress rehearsal” Project: Action at a Distance
Week 07 ︎ 10/14/2021 ︎
- Show and Tell: Project: Action at a Distance
- Introduction to Project: Create an interface
Week 08 ︎ 10/21/2021 ︎
- Progress Check-in Project: Create an interface
- Spiel: Intro to UI / UX: Wireframing/sketching
Week 09 ︎ 10/28/2021 ︎
- (Costumes encouraged, if you wear a costume please wear a selfie and upload it, and you will receive extra credit)
- CPX Warm-up #1 ︎︎︎Lights
- Progress Check-in Project: Create an interface
Week 10 ︎ 11/04/2021 ︎
- CPX Warm-up #2
- Spiel: The importance of Users
- Progress Check-in Create an Interface
Week 11 ︎ 11/11/2021 ︎
- CPX Warm-up #3
- Introduction to Project: Create a Prototype
- Viewing Party: Jacolby Satterwhite
- Spiel: interfaces + ethics
Week 12 ︎ 11/18/2021 ︎
- CPX Warm-up #4
- Viewing Party: Maywa Denki
- Show and Tell: Create an Interface
- Create a Prototype: check-in
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Work that was previously due will not be accepted after this date!
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Week 13 ︎ 11/25/2021 ︎
Thanksgiving recess (no class!)
Week 14 ︎ 12/02/2021 ︎
- Response readings: Create an Interface
- CPX Warm-up #5
- Spiel: interfaces + race
- Viewing Party: Alvin Lucier
- Show and Tell: Interface Interrogation
Week 15 ︎ 12/09/2021 ︎
- CPX Warm-up #6
- Create a Prototype: check-in
Week 16 ︎ 12/16/2021 ︎
- Create a Prototype: critiques
- Informal Class feedback
- Havdalah