Week 1

Session recording

Introductions

We’re going to briefly introduce ourselves, and then go through the room and hear from all of you.

Let us know your preferred name, pronouns, something about you, and a bit about your technical background!

Our class

Goals for this course

Let’s go through the syllabus, our approach, and our community agreement:

Our syllabus

Why we think this is important

We’re going to talk about the web—and why it is our pathway into typography and interaction design:

Everything is a web page

For next week

• Fill out your entry in our class list. These will help us a lot:

  Our class

• Join our Slack channel and say hello:

  #typography-interaction-2324

• Sign up for a GitHub account if you don’t have one! Do this with your newschool.edu email, then apply for the student benefits.

  You may use this GitHub account in your career, and you can always change your username (and add other email addresses) later. We’ll be using GitHub for our code.

• Sign up for Figma as well, and likewise apply for the education plan. We’ll be using Figma for visual sketching.
  
  

• Read both our first unit selections:

  • The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible
    Beatrice Warde, 1932

  • A Handmade Web
    J.R. Carpenter, 2015

• And then add your reading synthesis:

  Unit 1 reading synthesis