COAP:COAP-2170/week1
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COAP 2170 Week 1 program
Monday - Introduction to user experience and user interface design
- Presentation of the course outcomes, (provisional syllabus) and student evaluation scheme
- Participant's experiences with web design ?
- Introductory videos
- User Experience Process by Daniel Wilcomb, user experience director (20min. on Vimeo)
- Bill Verplank on Interaction Design (2:46 min., YouTube)
- The 'Mom Test' for Website Usability Testing with Matt Bailey
- Chicken and Egg by Kai Brunner (3 min., Vimeo)
- Big pictures - Interaction Design vs User Experience Design vs User Interface design vs Usability etc.
- The elements of user experience by Jesse James Garrett, author of The Elements of User Experience
- The Disciplines of User Experience, a revised diagram from the Designing for Interaction book by Dan Saffer
- Peter Morville's user experience design honeycomb model
- Holger Maassen's UXD-P – Gathering the elements model from a UX Design-Planning Not One-man Show article.
- Holger Massen's timeline and bad timeline model (same as above).
- Selected slides from Russ Unger talk on UxD. (userglue.com, he also co-authored "A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making".
- Design and usability methods and techniques (this page just includes links to various methods, some of which will be introduced later in the course)
I made some backup copies of videos, pictures and "foreign" slides and it is here (login + password will be given by the instructor)
Wednesday - Usability guidelines
- Short presentations
- Usability guidelines - what are they and who makes them ?
- Presentation of http://usability.gov and (shortly!) of its guidelines via our Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines (summary)
- Using usability guidelines in guidelines-based reviews (short definition and extra resources)
- Alternatives to guidelines-based reviews, there are many (!), e.g.
- Administration
- Evaluation (homework, exams, participation,...)
- Classroom activities (guidelines-based reviews of European Webster sites)
- Download the an Excel workbook containing all 247 web usability guidelines from userfocus
- Analyze http://www.webster.ch (and maybe its sister sites) according to instructions. We will divide work in groups...
This activity prepares homework 1.
Homework
Do a partial guidelines review of Webster Websites.
- http://www.webster.ch (Webster Geneva)
- http://www.webster.ac.at/ (Webster Vienna)
- http://www.webster.ac.th/ (Webster Thailand)
- http://www.webster.nl/ (Webster Holland)
- http://www.websterchina.com/ (Webster China)
- http://www.bacl.ac.uk/ (Regent's American College, London)
The instructor will assign both web sites and tasks to various students or groups
Students can work in teams of max. 2 for this homework.
- 1 student = does the homepage plus two other items (as agreed upon with the instructor)
- 2 students = do a full review (as agreed upon with the instructor)
Folks who didn't attend the Wednesday class, should try to do the best to catch up ....
- download an Excel workbook containing all 247 web usability guidelines ... and start working on it (as above)
Results will be discussed in week 3.
Due: Wednesday, week 2 before start of class
Evaluation criteria
- Completeness (but don't fill in items that are not appropriate for webster.ch
- Quality of comments
- Delivering in time