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
(details TBA)
- Complete the card sorting activity
- Write a short report