6.4500 Design for the Web: Languages and User Interfaces

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Studio 2

This studio is focused on design critique, with an emphasis on Learnability and Graphic Design, as the topics of this week's lectures.

Using a phone with a different OS

We will only do this activity if we have sufficient diversity of phone OSes in the class.

Use a classmate's phone with an OS that is different than yours. For example, those with iPhones should use an Android (or other) device, and those with Android (or other) phones should use iPhones. Your classmate should give you the phone with the browser open (the exact page doesn't matter).

Your task is to…

  1. Switch to the email client and send an email message to yourself
  2. Adjust the screen brightness
  3. Take a screenshot

MIT Media Lab Website

Browse the MIT Media Lab website, its various groups, publications and the site of a group (e.g. Social Machines), including its list of people and other subpages.

Remember the graphic design principles we learned:

Which are followed and which (if any) are violated?

submit your experience here

HW1 Critique & Feedback

In this website we have curated a few representative homework examples to discuss. Try to use the I like, I wish, What if rubric for the discussion