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Description and schedule for the master's seminar "Current trends in web-standards based UI-design" at HTW Berlin
Recent years have seen significant change in the way users engage with the web. With the rapid progress of web standards and browser technology, it has evolved from a platform for hypertext content to an universal runtime environment for applications. Also, the context in which people use the web has changed. The near-ubiquitous availability of internet access has moved the web from the desk to our pockets — to smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.
Goals and Objectives
The developments described above also have had a strong impact on the way web developers and interface designers work. New tools, techniques, and best practices are continually emerging from an open community of practitioners.
This seminar gives an overview of current trends and best practices in frontend development and interface design on the web. Its goal is to empower students to actively contribute to the developer community by presenting and publishing the results of their work.
Participation
Participants work on individual assignments that they then present to the whole group in a short talk. Participants also write short reports on their findings, which will be published on the web.
Schedule
This is a draft. Dates and topics are TBC.
Intro
2013-04-16 — Planning and kicking off the seminar

Introduction
Assigning topics to students

Talks from external speakers
2013-04-30 – Guest speakers:

Tiffany Conroy is an interaction designer and frontend developer at SoundCloud. She will present on The Limits of Context: When to use Ajax and when to reload.
Jan Lehnardt is a software developer with nearly fifteen years of experience with open source communities. He shares what he learned over the years and tells you what it is like to be a professional open source developer.

Redesign! – modern web design best practices
2013-05-14 — topics:

Web typography best practices (Maria Goltsova) – Slides
Skeuomorphism vs. "flat design" (Maksim Bock) – Slides | Handout

Later that night: Field trip to up.front, Berlin's monthly meetup for web designers & frontend developers 
No more WYSIWYG – a web designer's toolset
2013-05-28 — topics:

Understanding CSS(3) layout (Christine Wiederer)
Responsive Design: An introduction to designing web apps the mobile first way (Tommy Krüger) – Slides
UI libraries: Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation (Jacopo Ghisolfi) – Bootstrap example | Foundation example
Web Accessibility (Richard Johannes)

Making things move – dynamic 2d and 3d graphics on the web
2013-06-11 — topics:

An introduction to SVG (Markus Bausdorf) – Slides
Game development with JavaScript (Tobias Wehrum)

Later that night: Field trip to up.front, Berlin's monthly meetup for web designers & frontend developers 
Power to the frontend – building complex clientside web applications
2013-06-25 — topics:

MV* Frameworks for JavaScript (Vicky Mertin)
PhoneGap (Florian Wokurka)
Meteor.js (Bastien Grasnick) – Slides

Beyond IDEs – a web developer's toolset
2013-07-09 – topics:

WebRTC (Markus Konrad)
An Introduction to TDD with Mocha.js (Stefan Dühring)
JavaScript performance optimization (Andy Lindemann) – Slides