Syllabus

Information Systems and Service Design

INFO 228
MW 2:00-3:30, South Hall 202

L1. Course Introduction (8/30)

A1. Individual Assignment 1 - Personal Background

A2. Individual Assignment 2 - The BART Service System


L2. Design Contexts (9/1)


L3. Organizational Contexts (9/8)

A3. Group Assignment 1 - Project Concept/Charter

CS1. Project Kick-Off (9/8 5-7pm)


L4. Stakeholders/POV (09/13)


L5. Information-Intensive Case Studies (09/15)


L6. The Design Process [1] (09/20)


L7. The Design Process [2] (09/22)

A4. Individual Assignment 3 - Research for Service Brainstorm


L8. Service Encounters / Touch Points (09/27)

A5. Group Assignment 2 - Service Brainstorm

CS2. Project Concepts & Service Brainstorm (9/27 6-7pm)


L9. Ethnography Continuum & Techniques [1] (09/29)

A6. Group Assignment 3 - Ethnography


L10. Ethnography Continuum & Techniques [2] (10/04)


L.11 Self-Service (10/06)


L12. Computational Services (10/11)


L13. Requirements & Use Cases [1] (10/13)

CS3. Ethnographies (10/13 6-7:30pm)


L.14 Requirements & Use Cases [2] (10/18)

A7. Group Assignment 4 - Requirements and Use Cases


L15. Personalization & Customization (10/20)

A8. Individual Assignment 4 - Take-Home Midterm


L.16 Quality - Design (10/25)


L.17 User / Customer Models & Personas (10/27)


L.18 Process Modeling [1] (11/01)


L.19 Process Modeling [2] (11/03)

A9. Group Assignment 5 - Service Blueprint / Process Modelling


L.20 Multichannel Context (11/08)


L.21 Multi-device Context (11/10)

A10. Group Assignment 6 - Prototyping


L.22 Prototyping (11/15)


L.23 Context-Aware Context (11/17)

A11. Group Assignment 7 - Final Report

CS4. Prototypes (11/17 5-7pm)


L.24 Iteration (11/22)


L.25 Quality - Evaluation & Operation [1] (11/24)


L.27 Design Patterns [1] & [2] (CANCELED)


L.28 Final Project Presentations [1] (12/06)


L29. Final Project Presentations [2] (12/08)

A12. Group Assignment 8 - Final Presentation


L.26 Course Retrospective (11/29)