Design with code

Advanced Programming and Prototyping

Should Designers Code?

My decision to learn coding in 3rd year came as a shock to my family. It became a dinner table conversation where everyone was pitted against me trying to convince me to follow the designated path of…

Should Designers Code?

I hope to call myself a designer some day. I don’t know of what exactly, still working that out, but I know I enjoy creating systems and arranging them so they are best suited to be used. It’s so much fun to figure out what’s needed and then make a plan of how you hope things will go…

Reflection — Advanced Programming

When I decided to take up the basic programming in semester three, I was really not hoping to thoroughly enjoy that class. It’s likely it is because of the people that were in my class or the facilitator, but I believe that it was the ability to use programming in a…

Programming For Designers

What exactly does a designer need to know in order to design the best…

Advanced Programming and Prototyping — Reflection

‘Advanced Programming and Prototyping studio’ was a bit intimidating in the beginning, as we had to explain our A1s on the first and the second day itself. But as the classes progressed, everything started to fall in place. I liked how the…

Design Code Engineer

Javascript is a language of the browser. It helps us to program to create all sorts of creative animated web content in the browser. Using P5.js we can make these things happen. We can make art, data visualisation, websites, apps etc. P5.js provides a lot functions within a library. It helps…

Questioning Coding — A designer’s Perspective

Coming to the end of the studio — Advanced Programming as a Design Tool for Prototyping, I have seen myself as well my peers start from a level of next to no or meagre understanding of the subject Object Oriented Programming to a position where I was…

Programming and Coding for Designers

Advanced Programming was a course I was eagerly waiting for but didn’t know what we would be doing, until the mail mentioned it was P5.js. As a person who is very new to programming and coding, I chose all these courses so that I could learn and gain a better…

It’s all about a leap

This class feels like it’s over before it even started. From what I can remember of what we did on the first day, we were introduced to p5.js. Before that day, I had thought I knew the programming language, but when I even read the list of functions for A1, I realised I knew only about…