Overview

Many people use their phones as a device for reading. While we reflect on our own thoughts on the internet, let’s practice creating a comfortable and thoughtfully designed experience at a variety of screen sizes.

Instructions

1. Write a journal entry about your first memories of using the internet. The entry can be as long as you’d like, but 2 paragraphs is a good number to aim for.
2. Using what you know so far about responsive design, design a simple website that captures the spirit of the text. Have fun and have justifications for why you chose to design it in such a way and for what you choose to add to the text, if anything. (I.e Photographs, illustrations etc.)
3. Design your homepage at 3 screen sizes: wide screen (1440 x 900), laptop (1200 x 800), and mobile (use the dimensions of the phone you have)
4. Preview your design using sketch mirror
5. Upload all 3 versions to an InVision document.

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Writing References

Consider different ways of writing your response. Anything is fair game, but here are a few different approaches if you don’t know where to begin:

Stream of Consciousness

• excerpt from “Literally Show Me a Healthy Person” – Darcie Wilder

Combining Images and Text

• Guest Book – Leanne Shapton

Responding to Something Specific

• A New Instagram Obsession: Russian Women With Many Flowers – Molly Young

Collections of other people’s memories:

• Web Safe 2016
• When All Of My Friends Are On At Once

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Due

September 10, with in class workshop to refine