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== Grading scale == | |||
A 3.8 Very good 92.00 | |||
A- 3.5 Almost very good 89.00 | |||
B+ 3.1 Pretty good 85.00 | |||
B 2.8 Good 82.002.8 | |||
B- 2.5 Reasonably good 79.00 | |||
C+ 2.1 Fair 75.00 | |||
C 1.8 Rather weak / minim. 72.00 | |||
C- 1.5 Minimalist / Weak 69.00 | |||
D+ 1.1 Pass | |||
D 0.8 Pass 62.00 | |||
== Important teaching materials == | == Important teaching materials == | ||
Revision as of 22:00, 3 April 2011
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Introduction
- Disclaimer: This is not the official syllabus or course program. EdutechWiki is just used as support site.
- The course is organized in weekly programs (available through the menu to the right...)
The course-level outcomes as announced in the syllabus are:
- Understand the concept of human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Understand the need for usable and accessible web interfaces.
- Understand usability guidelines.
- Discuss various types of disabilities and their impact on computer usage.
- Describe a variety of computer assistive technologies.
- Understand a variety of methods used to make web content accessible.
- Understand the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- Implement usability and accessibility testing for web pages/sites.
- Successfully implement usable web page(s) that are also accessible.
Practical learning outcomes:
- Be able to define user experience in terms of usefulness, usability, accessibility and desirabilty
- Understand the design process and be able to participate in all stages.
- Be able to apply experience, interface, usability, and access guidelines
- Be able to use some design and usability methods
Fields covered (somewhat)
- User experience and user experience design (UX and UxD). Today often used as umbrella term that covers most everything.
- User interaction and user interface design (Interaction Design = IX, Interaction Design=IxD, User Interface =UI)
- Ergonomics (also called "human factors") and Cognitive ergonomics
- Human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Usability and Web usability
- Information architecture (IA)
- Design science
- Web accessibility
Grading scale
A 3.8 Very good 92.00 A- 3.5 Almost very good 89.00 B+ 3.1 Pretty good 85.00 B 2.8 Good 82.002.8 B- 2.5 Reasonably good 79.00 C+ 2.1 Fair 75.00 C 1.8 Rather weak / minim. 72.00 C- 1.5 Minimalist / Weak 69.00 D+ 1.1 Pass D 0.8 Pass 62.00
Important teaching materials
- Usability.gov guidelines (the whole book, you can download either the whole book or individual chapters). A short summary is in Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines. I don't require you learn this by heart, but you should be able to retrieve guidelines.
- Usability testing on 10 cents a day. Introduces low-fi usability testing and various connected issues.
- Usability testing A short 1-page "how to"
(more later, this list will be completed progressively ...)
In the meantime, see:
- Interaction design, user experience and usability
- Design and usability methods and techniques
- COAP-2100/Web design (beginner's overview items and readings)