Month: January 2016

Intros:

Let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves, our interests and expertise (will help us organize into groups).

Basic Premise of this Course:

The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed. 

– William Gibson, Unofficial Father of the Cyberpunk Literature Genre

A Digital Divide

• Home Broadband in the U.S.
• U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015
• Global Broadband

A New Design Movement

• The No-UI UI

Our Challenge

In this class, we’re going to explore with emergent experiences, on appropriate devices, to leapfrog the digital divide on behalf of our partner organizations.

Syllabus:

Let’s go over the Syllabus.

Basic Tools:

• Twilio Account
• TCNJ Web Account (or other web account)
• Github Sample Code Repositories
• Textit.in Account

Assignment:

Read

• Why Are People Still Using SMS in 2015?
• The No-UI UI
• Moviefone on the Go
• Text Banking

Write

• Create a new Google Slides document on Google Drive and name it “Design Notebook”
• Create a slide in your Design Notebook and name it “Messaging & Me” with today’s date.
• Keeping your response to one slide, consider the articles above and reflect on how you use SMS.
• How often do you use it? What do you use it for?
• Based on the articles above, can you think of any ways you could use it that you haven’t yet?
• Be sure to share your Google Presentation and post a link to it as a comment to this blog post below.

*Assignments are due before class on Friday. Be prepared to present your work in class for discussion. hairy girl