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DAR 254 - Interactive Design II

4 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
3 lecture periods 2 lab periods

Continuation of DAR 252 . Introduction to the theory, survey, and practice of designing and developing advanced interactive applications. Includes current multimedia formats and funding options, storyboarding interactive projects, advanced online design concepts of Animate, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 5 concepts, and advanced application development. Also includes simple graphics and animations, advanced visual aesthetics, business and legal considerations; and publishing, marketing, and distribution.

Prerequisite(s): DAR 252  

Course Learning Outcomes
  1. Use software tools to develop budgets, time lines, coding, and testing and validating during application development.
  2. Identify various tools which can be used to make an enhanced visually aesthetic project  
  3. Describe current formats when designing applications for personal computers, phones, and tablets.
Outline:
  1. Current Multimedia Formats and Funding Options
    1. Web-based
    2. Mobile
    3. Crowdsourcing and other funding
  2. Conceptualize and Storyboard Interactive Projects
    1. Identify need and/or market
    2. Conceptualize
    3. Storyboard
  3. Animate: Advanced Concepts
    1. Actions and event handlers
    2. JavaScript code functions, and arrays
    3. Buttons, controlling movie clips, and creating games
  4. Animate: Advanced Online Design Concepts
    1. Advanced Java Script usage
    2. Creating touch interfaces
    3. Advanced HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) formatting
  5. HTML 5: Advanced Concepts
    1. Modern browser support for applications
    2. Advanced formatting tags
    3. Advanced animations
  6. Application Development: Advanced Concepts
    1. Budgeting and time lines
    2. Coding the application
    3. Testing and validating
  7. Develop Simple 2D and 3D Graphics and Animations
    1. 2D graphic creation
    2. 3D graphic creation
    3. Animating graphics
  8. Advanced Visual Aesthetics
    1. Balancing form with functional design
    2. Advanced layout considerations
    3. Interactive graphics
  9. Business and Legal Considerations
    1. Copyright issues
    2. Resource acquisition
    3. Resource legalities
  10. Publishing, Marketing, and Distribution
    1. Publishing to online stores
    2. Using social media marketing
    3. Online distribution

Effective Term:
Full Academic Year 2020/2021