Schedule

Course Schedule

Week	Topic	Req. Readings	Lecture Materials	Tech Talk	Assignments Due	Discussion
Week 1 - January 27th	Course Overview & Heuristic Evaluation	None	Slides Video Tech Talk	Firebase - Prof. Moran	None	D-0: Introduce Yourself!
Week 2 - February 3rd	Sketching and Prototyping	Ko, How to Be Creative Ko, How to Prototype Ko, How to Critique	Slides Video Tech Talk	V2S - Prof. Moran Tech Talk Signup Due	Project Checkpoint 0	D-1: Creative Strategies
Week 3 - February 10th	Human Cognition	Norman, Chapter 1: The Psychopathology of Everyday Things Norman, Chapter 2: The Psychology of Everyday Actions	Slides Video	None	Project Checkpoint 1	D-2: Software Affordances & Signifiers
Week 4 - February 17th	User Centered Design	Norman, Chapter 6: Design Thinking	Slides Video	Selenium	None	D-3: User-Centered Observation
Week 5 - February 24th	Contextual Inquiry	Beyer and Holtzblatt, Apprenticing with the customer, CACM 38	Slides Video	Angular	Project Checkpoint 2	D-4: Contextual Inquiry Challenges
Week 6 - March 3rd	Think-aloud Usability Evaluations	Krug, Chapter 9, Usability Testing on 10 cents a Day	Slides Video	Cypress	Project Checkpoint 3	D-5: Midterm Exam Review
Week 7 - March 10th	Midterm Exam
Week 8 - March 17th	Site Design	Krug, Chapter 6, Street Signs and Breadcrumbs Krug, Chapter 7, The Big Bang Theory of Web Design	Slides Video	Jenkins Invision		D6: Evaluating Navigation Design
Week 9 - March 24th	Interaction Techniques	Krug, Chapter 10, Mobile: It's not just a city in Alabama anymore Krug, Chapter 11, Usability as common courtesy Krug, Chapter 12, Accessibility and you	Slides Video	Tableau	Project Checkpoint 4	D7: Evaluating Universal Design
Week 10 - March 31st	Preventing Error	Norman, Chapter 5, Human Error? No, Bad Design	Slides Video	Django NodeJS	None	D8: Identifying Unsafe Acts
Week 11 - April 7th	Visual Design	Mullet and Sano, Chapter 4, Organization and Visual Structure	Slides Video	Figma	Project Checkpoint 5	None
Week 12 - April 14th	Information Visualization	Card, Mackinlay, and Shneiderman, Chapter 1, Information Visualization	Slides Video	Appsheet Flutter	Project Checkpoint 6	D9: Distorted InfoVis
Week 13 - April 21st	Community Design	Kraut and Resnick, Chapter 2, Encouraging Contribution to Online Communities	Slides Video	React	Project Checkpoint 7	None
Week 14 - April 28th	Review & Project Presentations	None	Slides Video	None	Final Project Presentation	D10: Final Exam Review
Week 15 - May 5th	Final Exam

This schedule is subject to change throughout the course of the semester. Any changes will be announced on Piazza.