Date

Content

Assignment

8.28

Brief lecture

Introductions

Syllabus & policy statements

Join class email list

http://babbage2.cwrl.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl

Short assignment

¨    On-line reading “There’s No Such Thing as Information Design”

http://www.jefraskin.com/forjef2/jefweb-compiled/published/no_info_design.html

¨    First Principles from Tog

http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html

¨    Design of Everyday Things (Ch 1)

¨    Purchase books

9.4

Software gone awry lecture

Visio Example

First UI assignment

¨    Designing Visual Interfaces (Ch 1)

¨    Design of Everyday Things (Ch 2)

¨    On-line reading about Raskin's Canon Cat: http://www.archaic-apples.com/cat/canon.html

¨    On-line Nielsen article on "Heuristic Evaluation": http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_evaluation.html

¨    Visio flow task

9.11

Design Lecture

Visio Design Reviews

Software Review, email to class

Discussion of readings

Mid-term assignment

¨    Humane Interface (Ch 1)

¨    Designing Visual Interfaces (Ch 2)

¨    Design of Everyday Things (pp 99-104)

¨    On-line reading, style sample

http://www.indymagazine.com/comics/style.shtml

¨    Storyboarding example http://www.grantconsulting.com/usability_storyboard/

¨    Visual Design assignment

¨    Begin mid-term project

9.18

Prototyping and Storyboards

Understanding Comics

Tufte

Reading quiz

¨    Humane Interface (Ch 2)

¨    Designing Visual Interfaces (Ch 3)

¨    Design of Everyday Things (Ch 5)

¨    On-line reading about task scenarios

http://www.infodesign.com.au/usability/scenarios.html

9.25

Introduction to timesheet software

Task Scenarios

Practice building scenarios

¨    Humane Interface (Ch 3)

¨    Designing Visual Interfaces (Ch 4)

¨    Design of Everyday Things (pp 164-178)

10.2

Create task scenarios and use cases

¨    Humane Interface (Ch 4)

¨    Designing Visual Interfaces (Ch 5)

¨    Design of Everyday Things (Ch 7)

¨    Assigned readings from the speaker

10.9

Guest Lecturer

Discussion

Work on group project

¨    Assigned readings from the speaker

¨    Work on your evaluation

10.16

Guest lecturer

Discussion

Work on group project

¨    Complete project

10.23

Mid-term project due

Group Presentations

¨    Humane Interface (Ch 5)

¨    On-line reading at MonkeyMEDIA's site. Go to (http://www.monkeymedia.com) and select the reference link. Read "Five Styles of Interaction."

10.30

Interaction Design

Choose or brainstorm the UI for your final project.  Present your idea and choose groups.

¨    Humane Interface (Ch 6)

¨    Designing Visual Interfaces (Ch 6)

¨    Read about the Interactive Media Design Review contest (http://www.idonline.com/imdr01/)

11.6

Discuss readings

In class activity

¨    Humane Interface (Ch 7)

¨    Designing Visual Interfaces (Ch 7)

11.13

Start your own company

Founders Roundtable

Discuss readings

¨    Review of texts

¨    Work on final project

11.20

Lecture

Project Work

¨    Work on final project

11.27

Project Work

Thanksgiving assignment

12.4

Project Work

12.11

Last class

Project Presentations