Tentative Schedule

Week Topic Reading Assignment
Sep 13 Course overview, goals of HCI, UCD vs UXD UX Book Ch. 1, 2 (Part 1, 2nd edition)  
Sep 20 Discovery methods, user and task analysis Ch. 3, 4, 5, 6 (ch. 7, 8, 9, 10, 2nd edition) Individual Assignment
Sep 27 Informing Design Ch. 5, 6, 7.5 (ch. 10, 11, 2nd edition)  
Oct 4 Conceptual Design, information architecture Ch. 7-8 (Part 3, 2nd edition), course notes Team Project 1
Oct 11 Detailed design Ch. 9 (ch. 17, 18, 2nd edition) Quiz 1
Oct 18 Interaction design and wireframing Ch. 9 (ch. 17, 18, 2nd edition) Team Project 2
Oct 25 Wireframing, Theoretical foundations Course notes, ch. 20-21 (Part 7, 2nd edition)
Nov 1 Prototyping and evaluation Ch. 11, 12, 13 (Ch, 20, Part 5, 2nd edition) Team Project 3
Nov 8 Evaluation continued, Advanced topics TBD Quiz 2
Nov 15 Project presentations, review Course notes and presentations Team Project 4
Nov 22     Summary Report