Assignment #1 (starts in class)
due Wednesday 02/03 in my e.mail inbox: Design an Interface

Conceptualize a site, a personal infostructure that will contain your information and the web-specific art-pieces that we will create during this semester. Contradict the dominant 'user-friendly' design paradigms.

1) Write a Concept
Write a paragraph about the site that you will create. Map out your site-- include sketches or rough drafts as support material. In this conceptualization, try to explain: what the site will be, the materials, programs you will use.

2) Design an Interface
In the face of the undaring boredom of most interfaces catering to commodity fetish culture-- design an innovative interface, one in which play, experimentation and creativity are more important than usability. Ignore the oppressive focus on functionality that commercial sites whorship. Create a suprising, creative interface linking: your cv, biography, a short statement about your work (150 words), links to the web-based work that we will create this semester and other web-based work that you created in the past.

If you do not have such short statement on your work, biography or CV, you need to write it. The emphasis is on innovative ways by which to conceptualize, design and create an interface.

Stay away from frames.

pull down menu

browser detection

date

simple password protection

Menu Maker