Week 1 |
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4/1 |
Introduction to the Course [PDF] |
Syllabus |
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DISCUSSION: Design Jam! |
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4/3 |
- What is Design? (Lecture) [PDF]
- Design Jam Sketches (Group Presentations)
- Daily Design Principal: “Storytelling” [PDF]
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IDEO’s Deep Dive Video (25 min)
HCI Chapter 3 [PDF] |
- Handed Out: P0, Class Facebook
- Due: Bring your group work from the Design Jam to class to share.
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4/5 |
- What is Design, Part II (Lecture) [PDF]
- Establishing your groups and project problems
- Daily Design Principal: “Ockham’s Razor” [PDF]
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HCI Chapter 4 [PDF] |
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Week 2 |
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4/8 |
- Establishing your groups and project problem [PDF]
- Daily Design Principal: “Development Cycle” [PDF]
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Interaction Design, Ch. 6 [PDF] |
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DISCUSSION: Finalizing Groups and Project Problems |
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4/10 |
- Project Pitches (Group Presentations)
- Daily Design Principal: “Five Hat Racks” [PDF]
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None |
- Group Presentations: Project Pitch
- Due: P0
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4/12 |
- Slide deck [PDF]
- Project Pitches (Group Presentations)
- Sketching Feedback Break-out Groups
- Daily Design Principal: “Symmetry” [PDF]
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None (but will be covering Interaction Design, Ch. 6 [PDF]) |
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Week 3 |
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4/15 |
- Design Process & Fundamentals of Interaction [PDF]
- Daily Design Principal: “Hick’s Law” [PDF]
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IDEO (2003) IDEO Method Cards: 51 Ways to Inspire Design. W. Stout Architectural Books, San Francisco. Look at the information online, and if you have an iOS device, you can download an app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ideo-method-cards/id340233007?mt=8 |
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DISCUSSION: Look, Learn, Ask, Try |
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4/17 |
- User Research Overview
- Daily Design Principal: “Not Invented Here” [PDF]
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4/19 |
- User Research Case Studies
- Sketching Feedback (Breakout)
- Daily Design Principal: “80/20 Rule” [PDF]
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- Grinter, R. E., Aoki, P. M., Hurst, A., Szymanski, M. H., Thornton, J. D. and A. Woodruff (2002) “Revisiting the Visit: Understanding How Technology Can Shape the Museum Visit” in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002). [PDF]
- Huang, E. M., Truong, K. N. (2008) “Breaking the paradigm of disposable technology: Opportunities for sustainable interaction design for mobile phones.” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Florence, Italy. [PDF]
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Week 4 |
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4/22 |
- Contextual Design
- Daily Design Principal: “Consistency” [PDF]
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- Beyer, H. and Holtzblatt, K. (1998) Chs. 1, 3, 4 & 6 in Contextual Design. San Francisco: Morgan Kauffman, pp. 1-26, 41-78, 89-123. [PDF]
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DISCUSSION: Planning your User Research |
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4/24 |
- Ethnography & Field Observations
- Daily Design Principal: “Control” [PDF]
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- Blomberg, J. and Burrell, M. (2008) An ethnographic approach to design. In A. Sears and J.A. Jacko (eds.), The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Taylor and Francis, pp. 965-988 [PDF]
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4/26 |
- Sketching Feedback (Breakout)
- Surveys & Interviews Q&A
- Daily Design Principal: “Form Follows Function” [PDF]
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- Selections from Mail, Internet, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method [PDF]
- Chapters from The Ethnographic Interview (Spradley) [PDF]
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Week 5 |
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4/29 |
- Personas, Scenarios & Storyboarding [PDF]
- Daily Design Principal: “Personas” [PDF]
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DISCUSSION: Synthesizing User Research
Yiran out of town. |
Remember: You will be meeting on your own. Class presentations on your user research will happen later on in the week. This is a good time to assess where you are at, see what still needs to be done, and to prepare your presentation. |
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5/1 |
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None. |
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5/3 |
- User Research Findings (Group Presentations)
- Sketching Feedback (Breakout)
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None.
Group Presentations:
- East Side Story
- Digital Spectrum
- Magic School Bus
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Week 6 |
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5/6 |
- User Research Findings, Part 2 (Group Presentations)
- Course Check-in
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None.
Group Presentations:
- Mobilers
- Lil’ Stress
- MacroFirm
- CatDog
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DISCUSSION: Persona & Storyboard Workshop |
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5/8 |
- User Research Findings, Part 3
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None.
Group Presentations:
- Cool Ranch Tacos
- Sparky
- Confetti Cannon
- Serious
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5/10 |
- Sketching Feedback (Breakout)
- Daily Design Principal: “Flexibility-Usability Tradeoff” [PDF]
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Week 7 |
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5/13 |
- Ideation & Prototyping [PDF]
- Daily Design Principal: “Prototyping” [PDF]
- We will discuss A3 here
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DISCUSSION: Developing a prototyping plan |
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5/15 |
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- Paper Prototyping Video — Download in three parts from EEE. Each part is around 10 minutes.
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5/17 |
- Evaluation [PDF]
- Sketching Feedback (Breakout)
- Daily Design Principal: “Recognition over Recall” [PDF]
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Readings for Evaluation Lectures (5/17 and 5/22)
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Week 8 |
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5/20 |
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- Due: P2 (Physically turned in during class or discussion.)
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DISCUSSION: Group Project Time |
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5/22 |
- Analytical & Empirical Evaluation [PDF]
- Daily Design Principal: “Errors” [PDF]
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5/24 |
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Week 9 |
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5/27 |
Memorial Day, no class. |
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5/29 |
HCI in the Real World [PDF] |
- Sears, A. and Jacko, J. (2008) Future trends in human-computer interaction. The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, A. Sears, J.A. Jacko (eds). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 1281-1290. [PDF]
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5/31 |
In class working time.
Jed out of town. |
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Week 10 |
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6/3 |
Prototype Demos |
Group Presentations:
- Cool Ranch Tacos
- Sparky
- Lil’ Stress
- Magic School Bus
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DISCUSSION: Prototype Demos |
Group Presentations:
- Confetti Cannon
- Serious
- Mobilers
- Digital Spectrum
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6/5 |
Prototype Demos |
Group Presentations:
- CatDog
- East Side Story
- MacroFirm
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6/7 |
Class Summary & Evaluations |
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Finals Week |
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6/12 |
Final Project Design Expo!
4-6PM |
The final expo will be located in DBH 5011.
The room will be available starting at 3:00 for those who would like to setup in advance. |
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6/14 |
Final Project Spec Due @ Noon
Sketching Reflection Due @ Noon |
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