CSE 490L Lecture Calendar, Slides, & Due Dates

Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:50

Date

Topics

PPT

PDF

Reading Due

Assignment Due

Tue
4/1

Introduction: Course Overview & Customer Centered Design Proecess

(Kate Everitt: Guest Lecturer)

PowerPoint
4.31 MB

 

Chapter 1 of The Design of Sites

 

Thur
4/3

Principles, Techniques, & Processes: Human Abilities

(Richard Davis: Guest Lecturer)


PowerPoint
1 MB

 

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

#1 Project Proposal (Individual)

Tue
4/8

Human Errors

(Kate Everitt: Guest Lecturer)

PowerPoint
1.3 MB

 

Chapter 2 of The Design of Sites

Read Selected Patterns: TBD

 

 

Thur
4/10

Choose Project Groups

In class site critique exercise

PowerPoint
1.1 MB
 

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

PowerPoint
1.76 MB
 

Chapter 4 of The Design of Sites

Lewis & Reiman Chapter 2

 

 
Thur
4/17

continued from previous

Class Introductions

   

Snyder, Paper Prototyping, Ch. 4

Discussion of guidelines for user observation
By Kathleen Gomoll and Anne Nichol

 
Tue
4/22

Project Presentations #1

   

 

#3 Survey, Task Analysis, & Design Sketch (Group)
Thur
4/24

Prototyping Web Sites: Low-fi Prototyping & Evaluation

PowerPoint
8 MB
 

What do Prototypes Prototye? by Houde and Hill

Optional: The Perils of Prototyping by Alan Cooper

 
Tue
4/29

Using Patterns for Design: Overview of Groups A-M, Using Patterns in the Exploration Phase

 

PowerPoint
3.2 MB
 

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)

 

Thur
5/1

Prototyping Web Sites: Heuristic Evaluation


PowerPoint
1 MB
 

Nielsen HE chapter (read 5 links under "Jakob Nielsen's Online Writings on Heuristic Evaluation")


 

 

Tue
5/6


Project Presentations #2

   

Optional: Prototyping for Tiny Fingers (color picture)

 

#4 Low-Fidelity Prototyping and Usability Testing (Group)

Example Consent Form

Thur
5/8

Rich Internet Applications: Part I

PowerPoint
1.5 MB
 

 

#5 Simple Heuristic Evaluation (Individual)
Tue
5/13
MIDTERM

 

Thur
5/15

In class exercise: Heuristic Evaluation of Other Projects

   

 

 

 

Tue
5/20

Rich Internet Applications: Part II (note visual design moved to section)

PowerPoint
1 MB
 

Reading TBD

 
Thur
5/22

User Testing & Online Evaluation

PowerPoint
2.9 MB
 

Appendix A from The Design of Sites

Gomoll paper

Statistica Ch1, and parts of Ch3

Lewis & Rieman Ch. 5

 

Tue
5/27

Project Presentations #3

   

 

#6 Interactive Prototype (group)
Thur
5/29

Design Pre-Patterns for Ubicomp

PowerPoint
2.8 MB
 

Reading TBD

 
Tue
6/3

The Future of the Web

PowerPoint
521 KB
 

 

#7 Online Evaluation (group)
Thur
6/5
Final Presentations Part I
   

 

#8 Final Presentation
#9 Project Poster (group) - due Friday at 3 PM
Mon 6/9


James Landay
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