As students first begin thinking about communicating through the web, interesting and unusual topics help motivate good design. In this assignment, students are invited to borrow content from wikipedia to design a single scrolling informational site about a country, region or geographical feature.

A One Page website aims to provide the perfect (could read minimum) amount of information for a user to make a decision and act upon it. This single page website has no additional pages (like about, services, contact) and tries to remove as much clutter as possible, focusing the user’s attention to the most important content.

Design a focused website to advocate for one of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

2015 presents a historic and unprecedented opportunity to bring the countries and citizens of the world together to decide and embark on new paths to improve the lives of people everywhere. These decisions will determine the global course of action to end poverty, promote prosperity and well-being for all, protect the environment and address climate change.

Design a site that advocates a cause related to one of the United Nations Foundation campaigns and initiatives.

Inspired by AIGA's Design for Good initiative - a platform to build and sustain the implementation of design thinking for social change - I frequently ask students to focus their work on ideas that advocate for positive change.