Date: Spring 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Cost: $995
Course delivery: Online, live virtual
Develop an understanding of the principles behind and skills in the practice of user interface (UI) enhancements. For both students with no front-end development experience and those with a small amount of development experience. Students will learn to develop enhanced user experiences that meet useability, accessibility, and intellectual property standards for digital experiences that support community information resource needs. Students will learn how to build custom navigations and apply UI animations to enrich the user experience.
Expected Learning outcomes
Upon the completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate the fundamentals of front-end development (JavaScript)
- Understand basic front-end development concepts such as variables, loops, functions/methods
- How to properly install and use an external JavaScript library.
- Identify coding problems, and propose solutions to those problems
Course Structure
This is an introductory course, and as such, the full scope of this topic is presented. You will receive a lot of material, but you are not being tested on it. Instead, you are being challenged to absorb as much as you can for your own understanding and apply the material to the projects, you’ll be doing which are a continuation of Course 2.
Software
For this course you will need:
- Access to either a Mac or a PC
- Figma
- Google Fonts
- Microsoft Teams (this will be used for both in and out-of-class communication)
- Zoom
- VS Code
- Codekit / Prepros
- Web Server
- Greensock
Projects:
Enhance 5 weekly assignments
Enhance 1 final project (custom navigation, UI animations)
Please contact goodwin.ce@drexel.edu or call 215.895.2154 for course dates and information.