Objective:
- Give students a high level overview of what Bootstrap is and how it helps us as UX/UI designers rapidly prototype.
Notes:
- Let students know that you don't have to understand every single piece of Bootstrap to start using it, that would be very overwhelming. We are going to take a top down approach, where we implement a piece of Bootstrap and then breakdown exactly how it is working.
Resources:
Activity:
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Overview:
- In this activity students are going to look through popular Bootstrap sites to gain inspiration and see the possibilities of using Bootstrap.
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Directions:
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Slack out https://bootstrapbay.com/blog/built-with-bootstrap/ and have the students choose some of their favorite sites from this list.
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Take a few minutes to discuss what they like about them from a UX/UI point of view.
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Let them know that with Bootstrap, they will be able to create layouts like this.
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Check For Understanding
- Do students understand that Bootstrap is a framework with built in CSS and JavaScript libraries that we can access through pre-defined classes?