Session 2: A short history of design tools, setting up a workflow

Session 2: A short history of design tools, setting up a workflow slides

Objective: Contextualize digital product design within the history of a broader range of design practices; practice using contemporary prototyping tools

Lecture:

• Digital design: a history

  • Form follows hardware

  • Form follows tools

  • The print vs web schism

  • Skeumorphism vs flat design

• Prototyping: the state of things

  • Form factors to consider

  • Different tools and their use today, pros and cons

  • Opening the lid on the zillions of plugins, kits, etc

Reading:

• Maciej Ceglowski, Web Design: The First 100 Years
• Embracing open design in 2019

Homework:

• Get an account on Figma

• Go through these corresponding tutorials:

• Figma end-to-end

• Figma Basics

• Bad UX example