Tentative Schedule

Week Topic Reading Assignment
Mar 28 Course overview, Review UCD process, Overview of principles, user categories and deliverables Tidwell ch. 1, Brown ch. 2, 7; Optional: Hay ch. 1  
Apr 4 Design process and deliverables Tidwell ch. 2, Brown ch. 4-6; Optional: Hay ch. 2-5 Project 1
Apr 11 User actions, Controls and rules Tidwell ch. 6, 8; Saffer ch. 1-3
Apr 18 Feedback
Guest speaker: David Burns
Saffer ch. 4, pp. 109-113 Project 2
Apr 25 Modes, Automated interaction, Common errors Saffer ch. 5, course notes Peer Reviews
May 2 Command-based interaction
Guest speaker: John McGowan
Course notes  
May 9 Navigation Tidwell ch. 3-5, Spencer ch. 1-4, Chin et al. IF article Project 3
May 16 Constructing user categories Spencer ch. 4-9  
May 23 Content filtering
Guest speaker: Maggie Hong
Team Project
May 30 Informal presentions and discussions, social media, mobile design Tidwell ch. 9-10, Optional: Hay ch. 6-7 IxDA Concepts Quiz
Jun 6     Final Project