Schedule
| Date | Lecture | Reading (subject to change) | Assignments |
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| Aug 29 | Introduction | Out: Project Pitch | |
| Sep 3 | Project Pitches | In: Project Pitch (optional) | |
| Sep 5 | What is Design? |
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Out: Group Pitch / Team Descriptions |
| Sep 10 | Team Pitches | In: Group Pitch / Team Descriptions | |
| Sep 12 | Participant Observation and Contextual Inquiry |
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Out: Observation |
| Sep 17 | Contextual Inquiry Activity | ||
| Sep 19 | Personas and Other User Research Methods |
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| Sep 24 | Personas Activity | ||
| Sep 26 | Prototyping |
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Out: Lo-Fi Prototype |
| Oct 1 | Prototyping Activity | ||
| Oct 3 | Group Presentations | In: Observation | |
| Oct 8 | Group Presentations | ||
| Oct 10 | Formative Evaluation |
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| Oct 15 | Think Aloud Activity | In: Lo-Fi Prototype Out: Think Aloud |
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| Oct 17 | Mental Models and Affordances |
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| Oct 22 | Wireframing Activity | In: Think Aloud Out: Interactive Prototype |
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| Oct 24 | Reflective Design |
Examples of Critical Design:
Further Reading:
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| Oct 29 | Reflective Design activity | ||
| Oct 31 | Graphic Design |
Further Reading:
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| Nov 5 | Heuristic Evaluation activity | In: Interactive Prototype Out: Functional Prototype Out: Heuristic Evaluation |
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| Nov 7 | Usability Testing |
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| Nov 12 | Cognitive Theories in HCI |
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In: Heuristic Evaluation Out: Experiment Design |
| Nov 14 | Guest Lecture by Andrea Mangini, Autodesk | ||
| Nov 19 | Guest Lecture by Anand Kulkarni, Mobile Works |
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Out: Final Submission |
| Nov 21 | Guest Lecture by Jeff Zych and Anshu Agarwal, Optimizely | ||
| Nov 26 | History of HCI |
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In: Experiment Design |
| Dec 3 | Final Presentations | In: Functional Prototype In: Final Presentation |
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| Dec 5 | Final Presentations | ||
| Dec 15 | In: Final Submission |
Thanks to Jake Wobbrock, Scott Klemmer, Rob Miller, James Landay and Marti Hearst for inspiring many of these slides, readings and other materials!