COAP:COAP-2170/week1
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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
- 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
- Design and usability methods and techniques (this page just includes links to various methods, some of which will be introduced later in the course)
- Peter Morville's user experience design honeycomb model
- 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".
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.
- Classroom activities
- Download the an Excel workbook containing all 247 web usability guidelines from userfocus
- Analyze http://webster.ch according to instructions.
Homework
(later)