You will create a website for an imaginary real estate agency.
A current example would be : Civilization: Our Life in Focus (showing from March 13, 2026 to July 19, 2026 at Museum für Gestaltung Zurich) which shows the works of around 100 world-renowned photographers.
Examples of dedicated exhibition websites:
In every school, there are certainly some students who produce their music, play in a band, are MC-ing, are “bedroom composers” in different music styles.
This exercice aims to develop an in-school music label that showcases those young artists and their music.
Possible outcomes:
This assignments is based on a blog post by WordPress theme designer Rich Tabor: Exploring WordPress as a design tool (December 2022). Rich writes:
Last week I challenged myself to take one pattern, from one theme, and morph it multiple times — only using the design controls block editor. It’s kind of like CSS Zen Garden, but without CSS — just out-of-the-box WordPress block design tooling.
One theme. One pattern. Seven ways. No additional blocks, nor custom CSS between scenes — just designing in the good ol’ WordPress block editor.
Every font family/size, color, border, radius, image, video, and spacing value were are all added in-editor.
A few years ago, Taschen released a heavy volume of web design history, edited by edited by Julius Wiedemann – Web Design: The Evolution of the Digital World 1990-Today.
The survey in the book ends in 2018.
In this brief, students are asked to continue the story by adding a new chapter – how does the current year in web design look like? They will have to identify current design trends, major innovations, notable websites, and organize the information following the examples in the book.
Depending on the number of students, they can work on one year, or on several missing years (2019, 2020, 2021…).
Students have to design a website for a historical figure (maybe from a list provided by the instructor).
Example carried out in 2021 by student Messaline Piette at Eracom, Lausanne:
An exercise in web design: improve the homepage of Tim Berners-Lee :
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
An assignment by Manuel Schmalstieg at EAA La Chaux-de-Fonds. The students had to produce a survey of tools and methods used in a professional field.
A class of Interactive Design students created a “2018 survey” of design tools used by digital agencies, in Switzerland and France.
The tasks involved:
Time available: 28 hours (in 7 sessions).
The initial brief: https://github.com/eaa-imd/designtools
The resulting website: https://eaa-imd.github.io/designtools/
An assignment in User Interface Design, by Prof. Claudia Jacques, at Bronx Community College.
Identify what is bad interface design, navigation, functionality, interactivity, content distribution in a website or app and find a positive solution to that site.
Source: http://bccart87.claudiajacques.com/project-1-worst-of-the-web/
A method designed by Jeremy Keith, applied at the New Digital School, Porto:
Day four was a deliberate step away from [hands-on coding]. No more laptops, just paper. Whereas the previous days had focused on collaboratively working on a single document, today I wanted everyone to work on a separate site.
The sites were generated randomly. I made five cards with types of sites on them: news, social network, shopping, travel, and learning. Another five cards had subjects: books, music, food, pets, and cars. And another five cards had audiences: students, parents, the elderly, commuters, and teachers. Everyone was dealt a random card from each deck, resulting in briefs like “a travel site about food for the elderly” or “a social network about music for commuters.”