IML 400 Spring 2014

Assignment 11: Final Project Landing Page (Iteration 1)

Individual assignment.

The Landing Page is the content presented to the user once they visit a root URL. In the case of a single-page design, this will be the content filling the browser window prior to user interaction (known as above the fold).

This assignment requires the implementation of a first iteration of the Final Project Landing Page. All static content should be provided, as well as functional hyperlinks to placeholder pages or, in the case of a single page design, placeholder sections. Animations and effects are not required.

Assignment Due Date

Assignment 11: Monday, April 7th, 9:00am.

Readings

Next week we will host guest lecturer Kevin Driscoll. Kevin is a Digital Archeologist and a PhD student here at USC. He will tell us about his research on Ted Nelson and Xanadu, a failed project that once had a chance to become an alternate reality for what we now call the World Wide Web.

Please read and write a report on Kevin's paper:

• Kevin Driscoll: Dream Machines [Draft].

In order to get the best out of Kevin's lecture, you are recommended to refresh yout knowledge of three of your previous readings:

• Vannevar Bush: As we may think
• Tim Berners Lee et al: The world-wide web
• Ted Nelson and The Curse of Xanadu

And here are a couple more insightful articles where Kevin and author/scholar Finn Brunton touch upon the design of technologies that never where, and the impact these technological artifacts have in shaping an idea of the future:

• The Tedium is the Message: Finn Brunton's "Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet", a book review by Kevin Driscoll
• Spam, and the Challenge of Chasing Shadows, a conversation between Kevin Driscoll and Finn Brunton

Reading Due Date

Web page: Monday, April 7th.