DAAD 196

New Media 1: Multimedia, Animation & Online Publishing (2,1,3) 3 credits

In this course students are introduced to organizing information and designing user interfaces for computer delivered communications using prevailing development software. Topics will include: project planning – storyboards, maps and other planning documents; principles of animation – time, motion and juxtaposition as design elements; presentation design – both esthetic and pragmatic; user interface development; technical issues – file formats, moving information between various software packages, CDROM publishing, network-based publishing; players and roles; projects types and applications.