SIMS 213 User Interface Design and Development

Lectures and Tentative Schedule 
Week. Dates: Content

1. Jan 19 & Jan 21: Introduction

2. Jan 26 & Jan 28: Affordances, User-Centered Design

3. Feb 02: & Feb 04: Task Analysis

4. Feb 09 & Feb 11: Human Abilities

Guest Lecture February 11: Dan Glaser

5. Feb 16 & Feb 18: Design Guidelines

6. Feb 23: & Feb 25: Prototyping

Guest Lecture Feb 23: James Landay

7. Mar 02: Discount Usability Engineering
    Mar 04: In-class Project Work

8. Mar 09 & Mar 11: Interaction Models

9. Mar 16 & Mar 18: Web Interfaces/Midterm: March 18

Guest Lecture March 16: Mark Newman

-- Mar 23 & Mar 25: Spring Break

10. Mar 30: Navigation/Information Architecture
      Apr 01: Class Presentations

11. Apr 06 & Apr 08: Web Graphic Design/User Testing

12. Apr 13 & Apr 15: Experiment Design/GOMS

Guest Lecture April 15: Melody Ivory 

13. Apr 20 & Apr 22: Innovative/3D UIs

Guest Lecture April 22: Jock MacKinlay, Xerox PARC 

14. Apr 27 & Apr 29: Personality/Social Aspects/Agents

15. May 04 & May 06: Class Presentations