GD 3115 - Web Design I

Credits: 3
Course Type: Studio

This intermediate course uses the knowledge from GD 3105 - User Prototyping and focuses on taking the principles from traditional graphic design and applying them to the online environment. Students are introduced to site architecture, concept mapping, and digital code. Websites will be tested and used for optimal browser display, information architecture, and user needs. Upon successful completion of this course, students will have gained an understanding of the common challenges of creating and designing interactive media through prototyping, flowcharting, pre-production, production, and execution of a final website design.

Prerequisites: GD 3105 - User Prototyping

Course Learning Outcomes:

Understand the lexicon terms surrounding the modern online environment.
Analyze basic solutions to the challenges of creating and designing web content.
Apply a process for the development and implementation of web design.
Apply basic web-based code languages to create and modify digital content.

GD3115 Course Learning Outcomes Rubric

Required Textbooks:
HTML + CSS: Design + Build Websites - ISBN: 9781118008188

Above the Fold, Revised Edition - ISBN: 9781440336669