Schedule

Readings should be read in advance of class on the day specified.

	Date	Topic	Reading	Assignments
Week 1
	4/1	Introduction to the Course [PDF]	Syllabus
		DISCUSSION: Design Jam!
	4/3	What is Design? (Lecture) [PDF] Design Jam Sketches (Group Presentations) Daily Design Principal: “Storytelling” [PDF]	IDEO’s Deep Dive Video (25 min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooN05Q030Qo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_sZy-kusw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxO8t9Sonk8 HCI Chapter 3 [PDF]	Handed Out: P0, Class Facebook Due: Bring your group work from the Design Jam to class to share.
	4/5	What is Design, Part II (Lecture) [PDF] Establishing your groups and project problems Daily Design Principal: “Ockham’s Razor” [PDF]	HCI Chapter 4 [PDF]	Due: Class Facebook
Week 2
	4/8	Establishing your groups and project problem [PDF] Daily Design Principal: “Development Cycle” [PDF]	Interaction Design, Ch. 6 [PDF]
		DISCUSSION: Finalizing Groups and Project Problems
	4/10	Project Pitches (Group Presentations) Daily Design Principal: “Five Hat Racks” [PDF]	None	Group Presentations: Project Pitch Due: P0
	4/12	Slide deck [PDF] Project Pitches (Group Presentations) Sketching Feedback Break-out Groups Daily Design Principal: “Symmetry” [PDF]	None (but will be covering Interaction Design, Ch. 6 [PDF])	Handed out: A1 Due: S1
Week 3
	4/15	Design Process & Fundamentals of Interaction [PDF] Daily Design Principal: “Hick’s Law” [PDF]	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
		DISCUSSION: Look, Learn, Ask, Try
	4/17	User Research Overview Daily Design Principal: “Not Invented Here” [PDF]		Handed out: A2
	4/19	User Research Case Studies Sketching Feedback (Breakout) Daily Design Principal: “80/20 Rule” [PDF]	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]	Due: S2, A1
Week 4
	4/22	Contextual Design Daily Design Principal: “Consistency” [PDF]	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]
		DISCUSSION: Planning your User Research
	4/24	Ethnography & Field Observations Daily Design Principal: “Control” [PDF]	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]
	4/26	Sketching Feedback (Breakout) Surveys & Interviews Q&A Daily Design Principal: “Form Follows Function” [PDF]	Selections from Mail, Internet, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method [PDF] Chapters from The Ethnographic Interview (Spradley) [PDF]	Due: S3, A2
Week 5
	4/29	Personas, Scenarios & Storyboarding [PDF] Daily Design Principal: “Personas” [PDF]	Truong, K.N., Hayes, G.R., Abowd, G.D. Storyboarding: An Empirical Determination of Best Practices and Effective Guidelines. In Proc DIS 2006, 12-21. Storyboarding101, Chapter 6 [PDF]
		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.
	5/1	In class work time.	None.
	5/3	User Research Findings (Group Presentations) Sketching Feedback (Breakout)	None. Group Presentations: East Side Story Digital Spectrum Magic School Bus	Due: S4 Due: P1
Week 6
	5/6	User Research Findings, Part 2 (Group Presentations) Course Check-in	None. Group Presentations: Mobilers Lil’ Stress MacroFirm CatDog
		DISCUSSION: Persona & Storyboard Workshop
	5/8	User Research Findings, Part 3	None. Group Presentations: Cool Ranch Tacos Sparky Confetti Cannon Serious
	5/10	Sketching Feedback (Breakout) Daily Design Principal: “Flexibility-Usability Tradeoff” [PDF]		Handed out: A3 Due: S5
Week 7
	5/13	Ideation & Prototyping [PDF] Daily Design Principal: “Prototyping” [PDF] We will discuss A3 here	Tischler, L. (2001) Seven secrets to good brainstorming. Fast Company Magazine, Feb. 2001. http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/03/kelley.html Tischler, L. (2001) Six surefire ways to kill a brainstorm. Fast Company Magazine, Feb. 2001. http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/03/kelley2.html Rudd, J., Stern, K. and Isensee, S. (1996) Low vs. high-fidelity prototyping debate. interactions 3 (1), pp. 76-85. [PDF]
		DISCUSSION: Developing a prototyping plan
	5/15	Group Project Time	Paper Prototyping Video — Download in three parts from EEE. Each part is around 10 minutes.
	5/17	Evaluation [PDF] Sketching Feedback (Breakout) Daily Design Principal: “Recognition over Recall” [PDF]	Readings for Evaluation Lectures (5/17 and 5/22) Nielsen, J. (2000) Why you only need to test with five users. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html Nielsen, J. How to conduct a heuristic evaluation. http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_evaluation.html Dumas, J.S. and Redish, J.C. (1999) Chs. 2, 11 & 12 in A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, revised edition. Portland, Oregon: Intellect, pp. 21-38, 159-182. [PDF]	Due: S6
Week 8
	5/20	Group Project Time		Due: P2 (Physically turned in during class or discussion.)
		DISCUSSION: Group Project Time
	5/22	Analytical & Empirical Evaluation [PDF] Daily Design Principal: “Errors” [PDF]		Due: A3
	5/24	Group Project Time
Week 9
	5/27	Memorial Day, no class.
	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]
	5/31	In class working time. Jed out of town.
Week 10
	6/3	Prototype Demos	Group Presentations: Cool Ranch Tacos Sparky Lil’ Stress Magic School Bus	Due: P3
		DISCUSSION: Prototype Demos	Group Presentations: Confetti Cannon Serious Mobilers Digital Spectrum
	6/5	Prototype Demos	Group Presentations: CatDog East Side Story MacroFirm
	6/7	Class Summary & Evaluations		Due: P3 Q&A
Finals Week
	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.	Due: P4 (Expo Pitch)
	6/14	Final Project Spec Due @ Noon Sketching Reflection Due @ Noon		Due: P4 (Spec) Due: SF