SChedule

This is a tentative schedule and changes will occur. Slides/notes will be posted after each class. In general, we will not use x-hours in the class but if needed this will be announced in advance.

Week

Tuesday

Thursday

Assignments

Jan 4 - 7

Intro. to HCI (slides)

Design Sprint (slides)

Guest: Prof. Lorie Loeb (DALI Lab)

Read/Watch:

ABC News, 60 Minutes, IDEO Design Thinking, Jan. 2013 (13 mins)
Tom Kelley, The Perfect Brainstorm, Excerpt from The Art of Innovation

A0 out on 1/5
A0 due on 1/6
A1 out on 1/6

Jan 10 - 14

Designing for People (slides)

Read/Watch:

TED Talk: Design is in the Details, Paul Bennett
Tips for Working Successful in a Group by Randy Pausch

Needfinding (slides)

Read/Watch:

Ch 1, 2 & 3 from Contextual Design by Holtzblatt & Beyer
"How to Survive a Critique: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Feedback" by Karen Cheng

R1 due on 1/10

Project groups released on 1/10 (see canvas)

P1 out on 1/11

A1 due on 1/13

P1 due 1/15

Jan 17 - 21

Emphatize (slides)

Read/Watch:

Early Customer Research by Tom Eisenmann, Havard Business School

Define (slides)

Read/Watch:

The 7 Keys to Creative Collaboration by John Spencer

R2 due on 1/17

P2 out on 1/17

Jan 24 - 28

Ideate (slides)

Read/Watch:

Design Critiques at Figma by Noah Levin
Etch a Sketch: How to use Sketching in User Experience Design by Jose Rojas

Prototype (slides)

Read/Watch:

Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better Than One, CHI 2006

R3 due on 1/24

P2 due on 1/25

A1.5: Pulse Check (in class)

P3 & 3.5 out on 1/26

Jan 31 - Feb 4

***No Class***

Read/Watch:

Yours in Better! Participant Response Bias in HCI, CHI 2012

Interface Evaluation (slides) + In-Class Tutorial: Adobe Illustrator (cheatsheet, video)

Workshop (Highly Recommended):

Figma Basics, by DALI (slides, video)

R4 due on 1/31

Project Team Evaluation due 2/3 at 12N ET

P3 due on 2/3

P3.5 due on 2/5 (new due date)

A2 out on 2/2

Feb 7 - 11

Heuristic Evaluation (slides) + In-Class Tutorial: ReactNative (slides, video, github)

Read/Watch:

How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation by Jakob Nielson

**Project Time (on your own)**

Read (Optional):

Visual, Perceptual, & Cognitive Factors in Human Computer Interaction Design & Use, by Larry Fenningkoh

R5 due on 1/7

A2 due on 2/11

P4 out on 2/8

Feb 14 - 18

Aesthetic Matters (slides) + P5: Heuristic Evaluation

Read/Watch:

Chapter 1: The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman

Designing the Future of HCI (slides) + Project Time

Guest: Prof. Xing-Dong Yang

Read/Watch:

No R6 due

P5 in class on 2/15

Feb 21 - 25

Accessibility & Inclusive Design (slides) + Project Checkins

Guest: Prof. Elizabeth Murnane (Thayer Engineering)

Watch (Optional):

Meet the Normals - Adventures in Universal Design (7 mins)

**Project Time (in class)**

Read/Watch:

How to Speak by Patrick Winston

R7 due on 2/21

P4 due on 2/25 (new due date)

P6 - Presentation & Report out on 2/25

P6 - Project Website

Feb 28 - Mar4

Project presentations

1st Half: Groups 9, 4, 6 & 8

-- 5 mins break --

2nd Half: Groups 2, 1, 7 & 10

Project presentations

1st Half: Groups 12, 11, 13 & 5

-- 5 mins break --

2nd Half: Groups 16, 15, 3 & 14

P6 (all parts) due on 3/5

For Students: Ready to Invest?

For Evaluators: Assessment Form

Mar 8

**No Class**

Thank you for being a part through the term!

Project Team Final Evaluation. Due on 3/8 at 10pm ET