Calendar

Timeline
Assignments
Week Assignments Monday Wednesday Studio
Sep 21-25 A1 Needfinding (group)
due next studio (Oct 1-2)

Studio Preference Form
due Wed, Sep 23 at 8:00 PM

Student Conflict Form

Team Mixer
Wed, Sept 23 from 7-8pm
No Class - Quarter Begins Tuesday

Watch Before Studio:
Design Discovery (PPT) (Recording)
d.school's Empathy Fieldguide
Optional: Holtzblatt & Beyer, Contextual Design. In: The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.
Design Project 0
Sept 28-Oct 2 A2 POV, HMW, Experience Prototypes (group)
due next studio (Oct 8-9)
Define (PPT)
The Discipline of Teams, by Katzenbach and Smith, Harvard Business Review
Listen: Invisible Women, 99% Invisible, Episode 363 (31 minutes)
Fieldwork for A1
A1 Presentation

POV Development
Oct 5-9 A3 Website (group)
Checkpoint due in studio Oct 29-30
due Wed Nov 18

Web Workshop
Learn how to create your websites

A4 Concept Video (group)
due next studio (Oct 15-16)
Ideate (PPT)
Watch: Working in Teams (0:56), Tina Seelig, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Optional: Early Customer Research (pp. 9-27) by Tom Eisenmann
Concept Videos (PPT)
Watch: Ways to Create Ecosystems (5:43), Sharon Vosmek, Astia
Watch: Experience Prototypes Tutorial by Former Head TA Kristina Inouye (23 mins)
Optional Watch: Ways of Working (5:50), Sue Siegel, GE
Optional Read: "Design critiques at Figma" by Noah Levin
A2 Presentation

Task Definition
Oct 12-16 A5 Low-fi Prototype and Test (group)
due next studio (Oct 22-23)

Exploration (PPT) Early Stage Prototyping (PPT)
"Involving Customers with Iterative Design" (Ch 4) from The Design of Sites by van Duyne, Landay, and Hong
"Making a Paper Prototype" (Ch 4) from Paper Prototyping by Carolyn Snyder
Watch: The danger of a single story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TEDGlobal 2009
Watch & Critique Concept Videos

Sketching & Storyboarding
Oct 19-23
A6 Medium-fi Prototype (group)
due Monday, Nov 2 at 5pm

Visual Information Design
Watch Scott Klemmer’s HCIOnline lectures:
6.2 Typography (10:47)
CS147 Film Festival
A5 Presentation

Sketching Activity

Visual Design Exercise
Oct 26-Oct 30
Design Systems Workshop
Time and Location TBA

Accessible Design Workshop
Human Abilities
"Learning From Design Critiques" by Fowler and Haskins
"Cognitive Aspects in Interaction Design", pages 66-99 from Interaction Design, 3rd Edition by Rogers, Sharp, & Preece
Listen: Wait Wait... Tell Me!, 99% Invisible, Episode 369 (36 minutes)
Conceptual Models and Interface Metaphors
"The Psychology of Everyday Things" (Ch 1) from The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

Half-way Review with Outside Experts
Nov 2-6
A7 Heuristic Evaluation (individual)
due by studio (Nov 5-6)

A8 Hi-fi Prototype (group)
Midway due by studio week 9 (Nov 19-20)
Video demo due by Wed week 10 (Dec 2)
Complete due by studio week 10 (Dec 3-4)

A11 Final Report (group)
Checkpoint due studio week 9 (Nov 19-20)
Writeup due Sunday, Dec 6

Heuristic Evaluation (with in-class exercise)
Designing the Future: Early and Future Visions of HCI
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
Tools For Thought (Ch 9), Engelbart Demo
Listen and Read: Of Mice and Men, 99% Invisible, Episode 149 (21 minutes)

A9 Heuristic Evaluation
due Friday, Nov. 6 @ 11:59pm
Nov 9-13
Usability Testing & Midterm Review
Midterm Project Group Work
Nov 16-20
A10 Poster, Pitch, Demo Video (group)
Draft due Nov 30
Final due Dec 2
Design Patterns
The Design of Sites by van Duyne, Hong, & Landay:
Guest Lecture
A8 Presentation

Project Group Work

A11 Report Draft Due

Nov 23-27
Thanksgiving (No Class)
Nov 30- Dec 4
Career Panel
30-Second Pitch and Demo Practice

Project Expo from 6-9:30 PM