SIMS 213: User Interface Design and Development

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Week 1:

Jan 20: Introduction and Overview
Assignment: Think about project and project team
Jan 22: Principles of HCI; Working in teams; Class Project Brainstorming
Assignment: Project Proposal assigned

Week 2:

Jan 27: Interface Metaphors; Case Study of a UI Design
Reading: Nielsen Ch. 1 - 4, Sullivan
Jan 29: Project Brainstorming; Sullivan Case
Reading: Nielsen, Ch. 7, Gomol, Constantine & Lockwood Ch. 5

Week 3:

Feb 3: User Centered Design
   Reading: Cooper Ch 9-10, Newman & Landay
   Assignment: Project Proposals due
   Assignment: Personas, Task Analysis assigned
Feb 5: Personas, Practice Persona Development
   Reading: Cooper Ch 11

Week 4:

Feb 10: Affordances and Cognitive Considerations
Reading: Norman, Ch 1 & 2. Optional additional Norman reading
Feb 12: Mappings, Mental Models
Reading: Norman, Ch 3 & 4.

Week 5:

Feb 17: Modes, Errors, and Locus of Attention
   Reading: Norman Ch. 5, Cooper (About Face, Ch 28), Raskin Ch 2 & 3., Bloopers Ch 5 (pp. 288-304)
   Assignment: Personas, Task Analysis due
   Assignment: Scenarios, Comparative Analysis, and Initial Design assigned
Feb 19: Heuristic Evaluation, Design Guidelines
   Reading: Nielsen Ch. 5, Bloopers Ch 1 & 2

Week 6:

Feb 24: Low-fi Prototyping and Storyboards
   Assignment: Scenarios and Initial Design due
   Assignment: Low-fi Prototype and Test assigned
   Assignment: Individual Assignment assigned (due March 11)
Reading: Rettig, Cooper (Perils), Klee, JJG Interaction charts
Feb 26: WireFraming, Card Sorting
   Reading: Robertson, Lamantia,
   Excel template for Robertson reading More Card Sorting Resources
Example of the Card Sorting process

Week 7:

Mar 2: In-class project work
Reading: Bloopers Ch 5 (pp. 248-288)
Mar 4: Graphical Layout/Design
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 3

Week 8:

Mar 9: Formal Usability Testing
   Reading: Nielsen Ch. 6, Jeffries et al
   Assignment: First Interactive Prototype assigned
Mar 11: Finish Formal Usability Testing; Midterm review/practice
   Assignment: Low-fi Prototype and Test due
   Assignment: Individual Assignment due
   Reading: Practice Midterm

Week 9:

Mar 16: Midterm
Mar 18: Web Design and Search
Reading: Spool, Ivory & Hearst, Sinha et al., Yee et al.

--Spring Recess--

Week 10:

Mar 30: Class Presentations
   Reading: Bloopers Ch. 6
   Assignment: Project Heuristic Evaluation assigned
Apr 1: Class Presentations
   Reading: Bloopers Ch. 7
  Assignment: First Interactive Prototype due

Week 11:

Apr 6: KLM and GOMS, Comparing Evaluation Techniques
   Reading: Raskin Ch 4, Bloopers Ch. 4
Apr 8: In-class reports of Project Heuristic Evaluations
   Assignment: Project Heuristic Evaluation due
   Assignment: Second Interactive Prototype assigned

Week 12:

Apr 13: In-class project problem solving
Assignment: Pilot Usability Study assigned
Apr 15: Guest Lecture: James Reffell & Sacha Pearson: Doing HCI at Ebay
Assignment: Second Interactive Prototype due

Week 13:

Apr 20: Guest Lecture: James Lin
Reading: Klemmer et al., Klemmer, Ishii
Apr 22: In-class Critique of New, Hot Interfaces
Reading: Nass et al., Fogg & Nass, Tseng & Fogg, Khasalvsky & Shedroff

Week 14:

Apr 27: Ubicomp, Augmented Interfaces, Tangible Interfaces
Reading: Weiser, Bergman & Haitani, K-Ping Yee
Apr 29: Class Presentations

Assignment: Pilot Usability Study due
Assignment: Third Interactive Prototype (Final Writeup) assigned

Week 15:

May 4: Guest Lecture: Eric Paulos, Intel Research
May 6: Class Project Presentations

Finals Week:

May 13: Third Interactive Prototype / Final Project Writeup due (updated deadline)