The concepts that need a focused explanation before the week's session, and the week that carries the required slide deck.
Most of the course’s work happens in the weekly session. A lecture exists only where a concept needs a focused explanation first — Week 3, The Grammar of Pressable, carries the course’s one required slide deck.
The Button Before the Screen
What a button was before it was a rectangle on glass, and why every button since is a variation on the same trick.
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Translating the Push
What a physical button gives for free — resistance, travel, a click, a physical return — and what a digital button has to fake or drop.
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
The Grammar of Pressable
The four words this week runs on — affordance, signifier, convention, invention — and the two ways a shape can lie about which one it has.
Week 3 · 8 March 2027