week 6 : 13 Feb

genres

  • 6-8 pm, Walker Ames Room, 2nd floor, Kane Hall
    (on Red Square next to Suzzallo Library)
    William E. Ames Lecture in Journalism & Democracy
    Frank Blethen, publisher of The Seattle Times, will talk about the journalism business today and in the next 25 years - highlighting both challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing business.
  • Book Review Sharing
    • Emotional Design -- Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman - Belle, Randa
    • Design for New Media -- Interaction design for multimedia and the web by Lon Barfield - Chloe
    • The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman - Kai-Chen, Magnus, Ragan, Vaun
    • The Design of Sites by Douglas K. van Duyne et al - Luke
    • Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug - Kristina
    • Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge -- A View from Europe by Jean-Noël Jeanneney - Mini
    • Internet Art by Rachel Greene - Tony
    • Nake Conversations by Robert Scoble - Kevin
    • Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen - Nancy
    • We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People by Dan Gillmor - Stephanie
    • Web Design on a $hoestring by Carrie Bickner - Barrie
    • Book summary missing from blog: Kevin, Kristina, Luke, Magnus
  • Lecture (ppt) and Kelly Goto clip
  • Exercise
    • Group – reach agreement on the definition of your web site class/genre.
    • Individually:
      Find three sites that you believe best epitomize the genre. Also, try to find at least one that categorically fits but visually breaks the genre.
      Identify what "makes" this genre immediately self-apparent – regardless of entry point
      Identify content types found in this genre
      Post to blog by noon Monday.


Assignments for Next Week:
  • Reading - post to blog by noon Monday. "Group 4" (Kevin, Ragan, Barrie) is in charge of discussion reading.


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