To get our project brainstorming started, teams created concept maps of the problem domains of interest.
Student teams meet in small studios of 10-16 students for hands-on learning and personalized feedback. Each studio had a specific theme.
Student teams present their final projects in slides, posters, and demos at the Industry Project Fair.
The HCI+D course focuses on bringing design thinking, processes, and tools to human-computer interaction. From sketching to hands-on studio sessions, students in the HCI+D course learn the importance of making many design artifacts before narrowing down the space to focus on a final design.
Prototyping is the key tool to move ideas out of a designer's head and put them into a tangible form to evalaute for inclusion in the next design iteration. Students in the HCI+D course produce protoypes that range from paper sketches to concept videos to wireframes to code running on the target platform.
Evaluation is how we choose whether a design or feature moves forward in our process or needs to be discarded or revised. Students in the HCI+D course learn and use evaluation techniques that run the gamut from critique to expert evaluation to usability testing in the lab or field to remote usability testing.