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COAP 2170 Week 1 program

Monday

• 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 (10min. 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)

Demo Usability Test by Steve Krug, Author of "Don't make me think!" (only if time left, else on week 2 !)

• 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

Short presentations

• Usability guidelines - what are they and who makes them ?
  • Presentation of http://usavility.gov and (shortly!) its guidelines.
  • Using usability guidelines for guidelines-based_reviews (short definition and extra resources)

• Alternatives to guidelines-bases review, many (!), e.g.
  • usability testing
  • heuristic evaluation

Classroom activities

• Download the an Excel workbook containing all 247 web usability guidelines from userfocus
• Analyze http://webster.ch according to instructions.

Homework

Do a partial guidelines review of either:

• http://www.webster.ch
• http://www.webster.au

The instructor will assign tasks to various students or groups (to be discussed/negotiated)

(more details later)