COAP:COAP-2170/week3
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COAP 2170 Week 3 program
In week three we will do two things:
- Wrap up week 1 and 2 (usability guidelines review and usability testing) through a review meeting
- Learn about designing an information architecture
Monday
- Review meeting preparation
- Retrieve hw1 + hw2 and look at it
- Also here
- Review meeting
- 9:20 usability review meeting with Nir Ofek
- Students will present highlights from homework 1 and 2 and engage in discussion.
- No preparation is needed for this (except doing homework 2 and turning it in before start of class)
Program:
- Home page
- Other pages
- Usability Vienna
- Usability Leiden
- Other
Wednesday - Early design stages
- Focus group meetings
- Analysis of competitor's websites, e.g. with tools seen so for
- Card sorting is a popular technique for planning the information architecture of a website. It may be used to figure out an initial proposal and also to test this proposal with potential users.
- Introductory videos
- See the card sorting article
- Card sorting activity (see also homework 3 below)
- Create cards or get them from here. Best bet is webster-ch-titles.pdf
- Sort cards into piles (categories)
- Name categories
- Discuss and compare solutions
Homework 3
(1) Complete the card sorting activity if needed
- If you missed class, please have a look at all the videos in the card sorting article
- Print out the cards from http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/coap2170/data-files/webster-ch-titles.pdf (ask a classmate for the password)
(2) Write a short report that includes:
- A list of categories that you found
- Describe each category with a few sentences
- You also could explain why these categories should be appropriate
You can organize your report in any way you like. Just make sure that it looks like an interesting design document that could be used to redesign the information architecture.