Curriculum

12 Topics
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

19 Topics
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

16 Topics
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

2 Topics
Interview with Don Norman
Intro to UI Design: Psychology and Human Factors: Shortcuts to Understanding Your Users

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