Schedule

  • Schedule

    Week and project work topic Monday 9-12 * Friday 9-12 Friday 13-15
    #1 (28 Oct):
    Sketching    		 Course basics
    Group creation
    Introduction to the project
    Sketching, part 1
    Doing background research in this course
    Lecture slides
    		 T "Silver bullets" of design:
    Gestalt laws
    Affordances
    Mental models
    Standards and conventions
    Design heuristics
    Multiple resources theory
    Lecture slides
    		 Project crit: Sketches
    #2 (4 Nov):
    UCD methods for detailed sketching    		 Use cases and user stories
    Interaction paths
    Navigation charts / sitemaps
    Design patterns
    Lecture slides    		 T Different forms of evaluation
    Introspective evaluation through design
    Evaluation without users against guidelines
    Evaluation with users
    Lecture slides    		 Project crit: Detailed sketches
    #3 (11 Nov):
    Evaluation of IxD    		 Detailed IX design Lecture slides T Evaluation with users, part 2: 
    Description of what Week 4 will be about
    Deliverables
    Basic structure of your next week’s test process
    How to start a usability test
    What to measure during interactive parts
    What to ask in an interview
    What users to recruit Lecture slides    		 Project crit: Use scenario and a UI demo
    #4 (18 Nov):
    IxD tools    		 Designing IX using software
    Deciding on what to design in detail    		 T Exporting the project from the tool to HTML
    Getting started with IX programming for web    		 Project crit: interactive demos
    #5 (25 Nov):
    Ix prototyping    		 IX programming with JavaScript and JQuery UI T More about IX programming Guest lecture?
    #6 (2 Dec):
    Project demos    		 Demo session
    Recap on course's learning goals    		 - - -
    * T = tutoring sessions for groups on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays.

    Select your group's tutoring time (1 / week) from these Doodle polls: Week 1 - Week 2 - Week 3 - Week 4 - Week 5 - Week 6


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