Introductory Panel: UI Design and Why it Matters

Introduction to the Specialization Courses and Capstone

User Interface Hall of Fame / Shame

Case Study #1: UI Disasters including GPS fails

Case Study #2: Corporate Value: Citibank ATM

Case Study #3: Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon

Case Study #4: International Children's Digital Library

Case Study #5: Taxes and Tickets

Case Study #6: AirBnB vs. CouchSurfing

Introductory Video

Activity: Hall of Fame/Shame Interfaces

Intro to UI Design: Introduction and Overview

Design Process Introduction

Designing to Address a Problem w/o Solution Ideas

Designing for a known solution direction

Designing to iterate on/improve an existing solution

Common Elements

Usability Engineering and Task-Centered Approaches

Use Cases Personas Tasks and Scenarios

Intro to Design-Centered Approaches

Design-Centered Methods & When They Work Best

Pulling it all Together: Best from Each; Practical Techniques for someone who isn't a trained designer

Assignment Video: Tasks and Scenarios

Sample Task and Scenario #1

Sample Task and Scenario #2

Sample Task and Scenario #3

Task/Scenario Evaluation #1

Task/Scenario Evaluation #2

Task/Scenario Evaluation #3

Intro to UI Design: UI Design Process

Task and Walkthrough Scenario Assignment

Intro

Fitts' Law

Short- and long-term memory attention

Perception and visualization hierarchy

Mistakes Errors and Slips

Conceptual models

The Gulf of Execution and the Gulf of Evaluation

Design Principles: Visibility Feedback Mappings Constraints

Interacting beyond individuals (social psychology)

High-Level Models: Distributed Cognition Activity Theory Situated Action

Assignment Video: Interface Critiques

Read Me First: About these two weeks

Part 1: Assignment Overview and Properties of a Good Critique

Part 2: Worked Examples

Part 3: Test your knowledge

Interface Critique

Interview with Don Norman

Intro to UI Design: Psychology and Human Factors: Shortcuts to Understanding Your Users