Guest Speaker Reaction: Nick Whitmoyer
What exactly is mobile web design? What defines mobile? A phone? Any phone? Nick Whitmoyer answered these questions and more in his presentation. He discussed what entails mobile design and how it should effect our current and future design process. Why is mobile design important and when you should decide to have a mobile version were also answered. A great intro to the web on portable devices. Thanks Nick.
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Guest Speaker Reactions: Aarron Walter
Aarron Walter is the findability man. Aarron has written what is becoming the findability bible, works at Mailchimp, and is active in Web Education as the WaSP InterAct team lead. This was an Interview style session with questions ranging from his job title and description to his thoughts on findability. What really made this session fun was Aarron’s teaching experience which showed through. He has a knack for speaking to students which I
Guest Speaker Reactions: Chris Coyier
Chris Coyier is the man behind CSS Tricks and we were lucky enough to have his attention for 45 minutes. Chris chose to discuss money and how you can make it as a web designer/developer. This really epitomizes the reason I bring in guest speakers because this is a topic not in our curriculum but something the students are always interested in hearing about. Students are less interested in business models and more interested in hearing cold
Guest Speaker Reactions: Trevor Davis
Trevor Davis is a young man working for the Matrix Group as a front-end developer and writes for his personal site ( http://trevordavis.net ) and can be found on Net Tuts as well. Trevor spoke about the skillset you need to be a great front end developer which is right up our students alley. Most of these students are currently front end developers because they haven’t been exposed to programming long enough to be really great at it but they
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Year Review
I would appreciate your open and honest feedback about this years class.
- Download the course evaluation, complete and place in the hand-in bin.
- This is not graded, will not impact your grade, and the more honest you are the better.
Also, can you make these?
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In my absence…
If you are reading this that means that my child is being born (Woohoo!). I am planning to be absent 10 school days. Follow the subs instructions, work diligently, and be polite to your fellow students.
- You will receive the Mad libs assignment I discussed with you, read it carefully.
- It seems easy, but it can be challenging. Use your time wisely, this is due upon my return.
- You are well aware what is acceptable if you should finish.
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In my absence…
If you are reading this that means that my child is being born (Woohoo!). I am planning to be absent 10 school days. Follow the subs instructions, work diligently, and be polite to your fellow students.
- Finish your School Newspaper Mock Up including a full mock up for the homepage and content pages
- If you finish print out your wireframe, and each mock up, and turn into the bin.
- You can then begin working on your HTML, CSS, Javascript prototype. You can use everything we have discussed this year in your prototype, don’t forget all the nifty tricks and lessons.
- Your Mock Ups are due upon my return (10 school days). Thanks and have fun with this assm.
