What is Mobile UX / Class Info (8/23)
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- Assignment: Prepare Project Pitch & Complete Survey
Designing across platforms & screens / Pitches (8/30)
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- iOS and Android device ownership pix
- Required readings: Chapter 4 from “The Mobile Frontier,” Android Design, MS UX Guidelines (1st section at least), Apple UI Guidelines (1st section at least)
- Recommended readings: Separate mobile web site vs. responsive web site, Multi-device layout patterns, Media Queries
- Assignment: Choose your project & familiarize yourself with devices (see pix above to find out what your classmates use)
Guest lecture – Designing for Android (9/6)
NUI & mobile / Developing concepts (9/13)
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- Required readings: Chapters 2, 4, & 13 from “Brave NUI World” (to be distributed in class), Chapter 8 from “The Mobile Frontier.”
- Recommended readings: “The Computer for the 21st Century” by Mark Weiser, “Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved” by Bill Buxton
- Assignment due on 9/13: User Profile, Hero Moments & Multi-Screen Ecosystem
Researching mobile concepts (9/20)
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- Required readings: Chapters 3 “Intro to User Research & Chapter 6 “Exploring App Concepts” (Part A, Part B) from my book “Designing the iPhone User Experience.”
- Recommended readings: Chapter 5 “Evaluating the Competition” also from my book.
- Assignment due on 9/20: Competitive Analysis & Concept Generation
From Research to Design (9/27)
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- Required readings: Chapter 4 “Analyzing User Research” from my book “Designing the iPhone User Experience.”
- Assignment due on 9/27: Progress Report on User Research (short paragraph sent via email)
Principles, Patterns & Guidelines, oh my! (10/4)
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- Assignment due on 10/4: User Research Top Findings & Design Impacts
Mobile Prototyping (10/11)
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- Required Reading: Mobile Prototyping Essentials
- Recommended Reading: Mobile Prototyping Tools
- No assignment due
Guest lecture – Usability testing mobile concepts (10/18)
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- Required Reading: Chapter 8: Usability Testing Apps from “Designing the iPhone User Experience”
- Assignment due on 10/18: Scenarios, Storyboards, App Map
*** Mid-way presentations *** (10/25)
Guest Lecture – Mobile privacy (11/1)
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- Recommended readings: Jen King’s work, How to ask for permission. Android Permissions: User Attention, Comprehension, and Behavior, Short Notices for mobile, PrivacyChoice’s Policymaker
Bring your apps to life: animations, transitions, & sound (11/8)
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- Reading: Handout on Animation
- Assignment due on 10/18: App Prototype
Guest Lecture – Mobile Visual Design & Localization (11/15)
- Slides not available since some visuals are client confidential
- Recommended Readings: Interaction of color, A book of Colors, Grid Systems, Elements of Typographic Style, An Essay on Typography, Lettering Design
No class – Thanksgiving Holiday (11/22)
- No assignment due
Accessibility, Voice, & Sound (11/29)
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- Assignment due by 11/29: User Research Findings
- Accessibility Readings: Accessibility Programming Guide for iOS, Android Accessibility,
- Voice Readings: Best Practices for Designing Voice Interfaces
- Sound Readings: Free Sound Resources, AVAudioPlayer for creating sound, Tool to convert sounds for iOS
*** Final presentations *** (12/6)
Final projects due (12/13)