Introduction and Overview-Introduction to the course
Introductory Panel: UI Design and Why it Matters
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Introduction to the Specialization, Courses, and Capstone
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Introduction and Overview-Case Studies
User Interface Hall of Fame / Shame
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Case Study #1: UI Disasters, including GPS fails
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Case Study #2: Corporate Value: Citibank ATM
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Case Study #3: Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon
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Case Study #4: International Children's Digital Library
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Case Study #5: Taxes and Tickets
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Case Study #6: AirBnB vs. CouchSurfing
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Introduction and Overview-Assessment
Introductory Video
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Activity: Hall of Fame/Shame Interfaces
UI Design Process-Design Process Intro and Three Cases
Design Process Introduction
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Designing to Address a Problem w/o Solution Ideas
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Designing for a known solution direction
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Designing to iterate on/improve an existing solution
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UI Design Process-UI Design Processes I -- Common Elements and Usability Engineering
Common Elements
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Usability Engineering and Task-Centered Approaches
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Use Cases, Personas, Tasks, and Scenarios
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UI Design Process-UI Design Processes II -- Design-Centered Approaches
Intro to Design-Centered Approaches
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Design-Centered Methods & When They Work Best
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UI Design Process-Wrap-Up
Pulling it all Together: Best from Each; Practical Techniques for someone who isn't a trained designer
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UI Design Process-Assessment
Assignment Video: Tasks and Scenarios
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Sample Task and Scenario #1
Sample Task and Scenario #2
Sample Task and Scenario #3
Psychology and Human Factors for User Interface Design-Psychology and Human Factors
Read Me First: About these two weeks
Intro
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Fitts' Law
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Short- and long-term memory, attention
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Perception and visualization, hierarchy
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Mistakes, Errors, and Slips
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Conceptual models
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The Gulf of Execution and the Gulf of Evaluation
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Design Principles: Visibility, Feedback, Mappings, Constraints
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Interacting beyond individuals (social psychology)
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High-Level Models: Distributed Cognition, Activity Theory, Situated Action
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Psychology and Human Factors for User Interface Design-Interface Critique Assignment
Assignment Video: Interface Critiques
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Part 1: Assignment Overview and Properties of a Good Critique
Part 2: Worked Examples
Psychology and Human Factors -- Continued-Interview with Don Norman
Interview with Don Norman
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