Advanced Web Design ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

How do digital media artists and designers produce effective web sites to communicate and share their art and design projects? This course will prepare students to apply advanced theories and techniques to the design of visually engaging and accessible web content for the digital media arts. Students will learn to plan and produce dynamic web sites to create an interactive and responsive user experience. They will learn how to write for the web while integrating such dynamic elements as digital images, graphic design, animation, digital video, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented and virtual reality, and 3D tools. As part of the planning process, students will learn to articulate a vision, set goals, prepare a timeline, create a visual wireframe and storyboard, identify web design tools, and write a detailed proposal. They will incorporate web usability, responsive web design, user-centered design, and web accessibility requirements and standards to develop meaningful, reliable, accessible, and artistic web content. Students will apply advanced techniques using both coding and web design programs. They will produce several individual web design projects, a collaborative web site, and culminating digital portfolio. Prerequisites: Successful completion of an introductory web design course or relevant advanced level experience.