| Date |
Topics |
PPT |
PDF |
Reading Due |
Assignment Due |
Tue
4/1 |
Introduction: Course Overview & Customer Centered Design Proecess
(Kate Everitt: Guest Lecturer)
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4.31 MB
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Chapter 1 of The Design of Sites |
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Thur
4/3 |
Principles, Techniques, & Processes: Human Abilities
(Richard Davis: Guest Lecturer)
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1 MB
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Ch. 2: The Human Information Processor, from The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction By Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, & Allen Newell, 1983, pp. 23-83
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#1 Project Proposal (Individual) |
Tue
4/8 |
Human Errors
(Kate Everitt: Guest Lecturer)
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1.3 MB
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Chapter 2 of The Design of Sites
Read Selected Patterns: TBD
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Thur
4/10 |
Choose Project Groups
In class site critique exercise
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1.1 MB |
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Chapter 3 of The Design of Sites
Tips for Working Successfully in a Group by Randy Pausch |
#2 Hall of Fame and Shame (Individual) |
Tue
4/15 |
Principles, Techniques, & Processes: Iterative Design & Evaluation in the Web Design Process
Principles, Techniques, & Processes: Knowing Your Customers through Observation, Logging, and Surveys
Announce Project Groups
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1.76 MB |
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Chapter 4 of The Design of Sites
Lewis & Reiman Chapter 2
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Thur
4/17 |
continued from previous
Class Introductions |
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Snyder, Paper Prototyping, Ch. 4
Discussion of guidelines for user observation
By Kathleen Gomoll and Anne Nichol |
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Tue
4/22 |
Project Presentations #1
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#3 Survey, Task Analysis, & Design Sketch (Group) |
Thur
4/24 |
Prototyping Web Sites: Low-fi Prototyping & Evaluation |
8 MB |
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What do Prototypes Prototye? by Houde and Hill
Optional: The Perils of Prototyping by Alan Cooper |
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Tue
4/29 |
Using Patterns for Design: Overview of Groups A-M, Using Patterns in the Exploration Phase
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3.2 MB |
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Read Patterns: personal e-commerce (A1), process funnel (h1), task-based organization (b4), mobile screen sizing (m1), mobile input controls (m2), locaiton-based services (m3) |
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Thur
5/1 |
Prototyping Web Sites: Heuristic Evaluation
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1 MB |
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Nielsen HE chapter (read 5 links under "Jakob Nielsen's Online Writings on Heuristic Evaluation")
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Tue
5/6 |
Project Presentations #2 |
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Optional: Prototyping for Tiny Fingers (color picture)
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#4 Low-Fidelity Prototyping and Usability Testing (Group)
Example Consent Form |
Thur
5/8 |
Rich Internet Applications: Part I
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1.5 MB |
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#5 Simple Heuristic Evaluation (Individual) |
Tue
5/13 |
MIDTERM
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Thur
5/15 |
In class exercise: Heuristic Evaluation of Other Projects |
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Tue
5/20 |
Rich Internet Applications: Part II (note visual design moved to section) |
1 MB |
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Reading TBD |
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Thur
5/22 |
User Testing & Online Evaluation
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2.9 MB |
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Appendix A from The Design of Sites
Gomoll paper
Statistica Ch1, and parts of Ch3
Lewis & Rieman Ch. 5 |
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Tue
5/27 |
Project Presentations #3 |
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#6 Interactive Prototype (group) |
Thur
5/29 |
Design Pre-Patterns for Ubicomp |
2.8 MB |
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Reading TBD |
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Tue
6/3 |
The Future of the Web |
521 KB |
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#7 Online Evaluation (group) |
Thur
6/5 |
Final Presentations Part I
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#8 Final Presentation
#9 Project Poster (group) - due Friday at 3 PM |
Mon 6/9 |
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