HW Assignment #1 (Due February 4)

It is officially time for your first, short assignment. If you have any questions about what you read below, please don't hesitate to email me.

Description:
Your first writing assignment is very brief. Take a page or so to tell me how you make critical judgments about websites. When you visit a website, how do you decide if it's good or bad? Useful or not?

You don't actually have to critique a specific website; just share some information with me about the way you think about websites. Explain what goes on in your mind when someone sends you a website link and asks you what you think. That's it.

Format:
Typed, double-spaced Word, PDF, or text document with 12 pt font size. (I strongly prefer .doc files to .docx files.)

Submission Guidelines:
Email as an attachment to jneely@citytech.cuny.edu or infodesign.jn@gmail.com with "HW Assignment #1" as the subject line.

Please include your name and assignment number in the body of the document.

Due Date:
6 p.m., Wednesday, February 4

Meeting Dates for Spring 2009

Welcome to the primary website for section 2260 of City Tech's course ADV 3560: Information Design for the World Wide Web. I'll use this blog to post written assignments for class, as well as assigned reading, news clips, and miscellaneous other things that relate to upcoming in-class projects.

For this first post (and at the risk of being redundant), I'm including our planned meeting dates, excerpted from the syllabus to be distributed in our first class.

I'll generally send an email to the class when updates are made to the site. Please feel free (even encouraged) to leave comments on any posts that interest you.

Meeting Dates:

January 28

February 4

February 11

February 18

February 25

March 4

March 11 MIDTERM

March 18

March 25

April 1

April 8 NO CLASS (SPRING RECESS)

April 15 NO CLASS (SPRING RECESS)

April 22

April 29

May 6

May 13

May 20 FINAL EXAM (FINAL DAY OF CLASS)