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CS575 Spring 2012. Lecture 8 CSULA Bapa Rao. Agenda for Today. Review of previous meeting and assignments User Theory Presentation Coming week’s assignment Student reports UI Prototype Design & Development CalStateLA (aka CSULA) website evaluation [time permitting] Alan Kaye Video.
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CS575Spring 2012 Lecture 8 CSULA Bapa Rao
Agenda for Today • Review of previous meeting and assignments • User Theory Presentation • Coming week’s assignment • Student reports • UI Prototype Design & Development • CalStateLA (aka CSULA) website evaluation • [time permitting] Alan Kaye Video
Review of previous meeting • Continuing student work on heuristic evaluation • Direct Manipulation • What is good Interaction Design? • Bridge gulf between User and • How do I do? • What happened? • Bridge gulf between Mental Models • User’s model • Designer’s model • Semantic expressivity (power) of model • What representations are used for communication?
Last week’s assignment : 1 • Bring yourself and your team up to date on the assignments so far • You cannot do any coding till you are up to date and I give the OK • Email me if you have any questions
Last week’s assignment : 2 • New Assignment: Use Nielsen’s heuristic evaluation method and criteria to do an evaluation of the www.csula.edu website. • Due 2012-05-26 • Refer to the Resources for examples and guidelines. • For each team, upload the following: • each team member does an independent evaluation • Construct a template and fill it out • Scores, Verbal descriptions • Consolidate the evaluations of all team members • Average scores, consolidated verbal descriptions • Debriefing results: • Specific ideas for improving the design of the site. • Submit and Present in class in 2012-05-26 meeting • Consolidated verbal critique of site, average scores, debriefing results
Assignment for the coming week • Catch up on the assignments so far • Evaluation spreadsheets • Evaluation reports, implementation plans • Team journals • Individual journals • Work on your implementation • In-class presentation deadline: June 9, 2012
USER THEORY (From Stuart Card’s lecture to Stanford HCI class, Fall 2011)