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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

.... soon

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

(details TBA)

• Complete the card sorting activity
• Write a short report