Don't forget to also check the homework schedule.
DN = Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things"
| WK | Class/Date | Topic | Readings (Reflections due) |
Lecture Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue 6/2 | Introduction Where Everyday Things Can Go Wrong |
DN 1 and course syllabus |
Intro slides DN 1 slides |
| Thu 6/4 |
Human Thinking about Goals and Tools How Humans Know Things, in the Head and in the World |
DN 2 and 3 | DN 3 slides | |
| 2 | Mon 6/8 | How Humans Figure Things Out | DN 4 | |
| Tue 6/9 | To Err is Human | DN 5 | ||
| Thu 6/11 | Quiz | DN 5 slides | ||
| 3 | Mon 6/15 |
Design Thinking Wrapping Norman Up VoiceThread, Chapter 7, DoET, and VoiceThread, rest of Chapter 6, DoET |
DN 6, DN 7 | |
| Tue 6/16 | Simple Quantitative User Testing (chapters in class Office365/OneDrive folder), and in class KLM-GOMS work | Quant. Chap. and Sci. vs. Eng. Chap. | Quant. T. slides | |
| Thu 6/18 |
Color: Where Design, Biology and Physics Meet
VoiceThread, Color Chapter, Part B |
Color Chap. | ||
| 4 | Mon 6/22 |
Usability Testing No reading reflection due, since I forgot to put it on this schedule early enough. VoiceThread, Color Chapter, Part C |
Qual. Chap. | Qual. T. slides |
| Tue 6/23 | Usability Testing (in class work) | |||
| Thu 6/25 |
Quiz Usability Testing (in class testing, all of the class time) |
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| 5 | Mon 6/29 |
Icons, and Design VoiceThread, Icons and Signs, Part A |
Icons Chap., and Design Chap. |
Design slides |
| Tue 6/30 |
Design
VoiceThread, Icons and Signs, Part B |
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| Thu 7/2 | Design (in class group work... more or less every day from here on) | |||
| 6 | Mon 7/6 | |||
| Tue 7/7 | ||||
| Thu 7/9 | ||||
| 6 | Thu 7/9 | Final Quiz |