Announcements
DES511 Announcements
Announcements about the DES511 module will be made here, please check this page frequently. Thank you.
511 - Innovation and Concept
The deadline for the DES511 hand-in - as clearly outlined in the Week 12 lecture (and previously) - is as follows:
14.00, Friday 8 January, 2010
You must upload all of your work to your web space to the following locations (again, we covered these during the lectures).
Design Diary:
Week 1: http://193.61.148.36:8080/~B00123456/511/01
Week 2: http://193.61.148.36:8080/~B00123456/511/02
Etc.
Live Project:
http://193.61.148.36:8080/~B00123456/511/liveproject
We need you to hand in a CDR with all of the work you've done for this module: Design Diary; Live Project; and Major Project Proposal (as a PDF or Word document). Please bring this with you to our office at the above time, ensuring your CDR is clearly labelled with your name and your Student ID.
We will provide Coursework Submission Sheets when you hand in the work (as we did when you handed in your Major Project Proposals).
Important
As we covered during the lecture, the CDR is for our archives only. We will not assess from the CDR. Repeat. We will not assess from the CDR.
We will be assessing all of your work from your web space. Please ensure it is uploaded to the specified location (above), failure to do so will be judged a non submission and may result in failure of the module.
We outlined the assessment criteria in Week 01 and again when we introduced the Major Project Proposal, you can download the assessment criteria here.
Get Some Web Hosting (It Will Earn You Money)
As final year students on IMD you should all have your own web hosting in addition to your IMD space. If you're serious about continuing in a career in interactive design you should certainly own your own domain name (web address). No one will take you seriously as a web designer if you're using your university email address or, worse a Hotmail or Gmail address.
We recommend Dreamhost and because we use them can give you a little advice during lab sessions on their setup and how to use their control panel.
Hosting should not cost you any money. With Dreamhost you can register and set up web sites for your clients and then charge them for hosting their sites on your server. Your hosting should be earning you money!
Use DreamHost and enter the promo code FEHLER to get a discount on all one year hosting plans.
Get Dropbox
As mentioned in the lecture, if you're not using it, we strongly recommend you sign up for a Dropbox account. You can use this for a number of purposes: as a means of sync'ing multiple computers; as a means of creating a free, shared working space to enable collaboration with your colleagues; or as a form of off-site storage for archiving purposes.
If you click the link below you get an additional 250MB of storage space free.
Thanks for sharing the love and enjoy your Dropbox.