Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness

Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.

Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.

The Web Metaphor

I AM...

• Inter-connectivity

• Inter-dependency

• Inter-relationship

Think about this!

How will it influence your design experience?

Strengths Questionnaire

Let's begin...

re: the process
1. Click the REGISTER button located at the bottom left corner of the web page www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/
2. Fill out the registration form.
3. Record your Username and Password.
4. Select VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire, under the heading Engagement Questionnaires: Measures 24 Character Strengths. It will take about 20 minutes to fill out the questionnaire.
5. Save a copy of the top five strengths, for use in your web site.

Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web

The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?

2010.01

Welcome to Web Design 1: Web Design Fundamentals.

re: the blog
This blog will include weekly links to resources that may be useful to you in your explorations of web design.

re: the course
This is an introductory level, fourteen week course. It is designed to provide the participant with the basic tools and principles for designing a web site.

re: the process
Each week we will explore different aspects of page and site design. You are encouraged to view the HOW TO video links and participate in weekly exercises. Practice, practice, practice.

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