Syllabus

Information Systems and Service Design

INFO 290-1
MW 2:00-3:30, South Hall 202

L1. Course Introduction (8/26)

A1. Individual Assignment 1 - Personal Background


L2. Design Contexts (8/31)


L3. Organizational Contexts (9/2)

A2. Individual Assignment 2 - The BART Service System


L4. The Design Process [1] (9/9)


L5. Information-Intensive Case Studies (9/14)


L6. Project Kick-off (9/16)

A3. Group Assignment 1 - Project Concept


L7. The Design Process [2] (9/21)


L8. Stakeholders / POVs (9/23)


L9. Service Encounters / Touch Points (9/28)


L10. Self-service (9/30)


L11. Computational Services (10/5)

A4. Individual Assignment 3 - Service Brainstorm

A5. Group Assignment 2 - Service Brainstorm


L12. Segmentation, Personalization & Customization (10/7)


L13. Quality - Design (10/12)


L14. Ethnography Continuum & Techniques [1] (10/14)

A6. Group Assignment 3 - Ethnography


L15. Ethnography Continuum & Techniques [2] (10/19)


L16. Requirements & Use Cases [1] (10/21)

A7. Group Assignment 4 - Requirements and Use Cases


L17. Requirements & Use Cases [2] (10/26)


L18. User / Actor Models & Personas (10/28)


L19. Process Modeling [1] (11/2)

A8. Group Assignment 5 - Blueprints


L20. Process Modeling [2] (11/4)


L21. Multichannel Context (11/9)


L22. Multi-device Context (11/16)


L23. Context-aware Context (11/18)


L24. Prototyping (11/23)

A9. Group Assignment 6 - Prototyping Plan


L25. Project Status Report Presentation (11/25)


L26. Iteration (11/30)


L27. Quality Evaluation and Operation (12/2)

A10. Individual Assignment 4 - Take-home Check Point


L28. In-Class Project Consulting Session (12/7)


L29. Project Presentations (12/9, 12/15)

A11. Group Assignment 7 - Final Presentation and Report