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SIMS 213 User Interface Design
and Development
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Week 1 (Jan 18-22)
(Due Jan 26): Read the Introduction and
Chapter 5 of Dix et al.
Optional Supplemental Reading: Don
Norman on Perceived Affordances
Week 2 (Jan 25-29)
(Due Feb 2): Read Chapter 7 of Dix et al.
(Due Feb 4): Project
Proposal (individual)
Week 3 (Feb 01-05)
(Due Feb 9): Read Olsen Chapter 2 (class
handout)
(Due Feb 11): Read Holtzblatt,
Cleary, Ims from ACM SIGCHI Interactions January/February, 1999.
(Due Feb 11): Read Holtzblatt &
Beyer, CACM 36 (10)
(Due Feb 9): Read Chapter 1 of Dix et al.
(Due Feb 11): Task
Analysis Assignment (individual) and notes
on grading (may be helpful for the next assignment too)
Week 4 (Feb 08-12)
(Due Feb 18): Read Dix et al. 4.3, 6.5-6.10,
11.1-11.4
Week 5 (Feb 15-19)
(Due March 02): Project
task analysis and initial sketches
(Due Feb 23): Read Shneiderman excerpt; Read Nielsen
chapter 5
Week 6 (Feb 22-26)
(Due Mar 02): Read Marc
Rettig, Prototyping for tiny fingers, CACM 37 (4), April 1994;
Read Alan
Cooper's "Perils of Prototyping" article
(Optional): A discussion
of the difference between prototyping tools and UI builders.
(Due Mar 11) Project
low-fi prototyping
Week 7 (Mar 01-05)
(Due Mar 09): Read Kent
Sullivan's article The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in
Usability Engineering Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI 1996. (This article
actually admits that Windows 3.1 was a usability disaster.)
(EDD: Mar 15) Begin learning prototyping tool
Week 8 (Mar 08-12)
(Due Mar 16): Read Chapters 3.5-3.6 and 10.1-10.4
in Dix et al.
(Due Mar 11): Read the Gomoll handout.
(Due Mar 18):
Short Heuristic Evaluation Exercise
(individual)
Week 9 (Mar 15-19)
(Due Mar 18)
Study for Midterm
(Due: Apr 01)
Interactive prototype
Midterm: March 18
Spring Break!! (Mar 22-26)
Week 10 (Mar 29-Apr 02)
(Due Apr 06): Read Sano chapters, Hearst chapter,
and Dix et al. Sections 11.5 and 11.6.
(EDD: Apr 08) Project heuristic
evaluation
Week 11 (Apr 05-09)
(Due Apr 14) Read Oren et al.,
Stone et al., Bier et al., and Brewster et al.
(EDD: Apr 20)
Second interactive
prototype
Week 12 (Apr 12-16)
(Due Apr 21) Read Card et al. and Gonzalez
Week 13 (Apr 19-23)
(Due May 02) Read the Shneiderman & Maes paper and the Nass articles
(EDD: Apr 27)
Pilot user study
Week 14 (Apr 26-30)
(EDD May 04, 06) Class
presentation
(EDD: May 10)
Final Project writeup
Week 15 (May 03-07)
Class Presentations
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