Date

Content

Assignment

8.27

What constitutes a design practice?

Brief lecture

Introductions

Syllabus & policy statements

Join class email list

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

Short assignment

s         On-line reading “Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers”: http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/ca/ca/ca.html

s         Design of Everyday Things (Ch 1)

s         Read the Flusser handout

s         Purchase books

9.3

Patterns of Design, Best Practices

Design lecture

Visio Example

First UI assignment

Email to List

s         Read the interactions handout

s         Notes on the Synthesis of Form (preface and Ch 1)

s         On-line reading: First Principles from Tog

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

s         On-line reading http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/common_ground.html (read the preface and intro)

9.10

Identify “users”

Class discussion

Visio Design Reviews

Software Review, email to class

Mid-term assignment

s         Design of Everyday Things (Ch 2-3)

s         Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Ch 2-4)

s         On-line reading about task scenarios

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

s         Visual Design assignment

s         On-line reading http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/common_ground.html (read the preface and intro)

s         Begin mid-term project

9.17

Construct and evaluate “tasks”

Begin mini-lecture series

Task Scenarios

Practice building scenarios

s         Design of Everyday Things (Ch 4-5)

s         Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Ch 5-6)

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

9.24

Walkthroughs

Heuristic evaluation

s         Design of Everyday Things (6-7)

s         Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Ch 6)

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

s         On-line reading, style sample

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

10.1

Storyboards and models

Storyboarding

s         Handouts

s         On-line reading from Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html

s         Visual Design assignment

10.8

Usability Testing

Guest Lecturer

Discussion

s         Assigned readings from the speaker

s         Work on your mid-term project

10.15

Presentations

Mid-term project due

Group Presentations

Final project assignment

s         Complete project

s         On-line reading: the universal usability guide at http://www.universalusability.org

10.22

Accessibility

Design samples

Evaluations

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

10.29

Interaction

Interaction Design

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

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

11.5

Class review of design practices

Discuss readings

In class activity

s         Preliminary review of projects

11.12

Project work

s         Review of texts

s         Work on final project

11.19

Lecture

Project Work

s         Work on final project

11.26

Project Work

Thanksgiving Assignment

s         Complete final project

12.3

Last class

Project Presentations