| Day | Date | Lecture / Studio Activity | Reading | Assignment Due |
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| Tue | 3/31/2015 | Course Introduction (PPT) & |
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| Thur | 4/2/2015 | Needfinding & Unpacking Doug Engelbart's Crusade (PPT) Plan interview questions (team) |
Needfinding + Interview, pp. 1, 9, 10, & 15 in BootCamp BootLeg Watch the first 20 minutes of the Demo |
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| Tue | 4/7/2015 | Point of View (PPT) Unpack needfinding for empathy map (team) Develop a POV & brainstorm solutions (team) |
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#1-Design Challenge 1: Redesign Engelbart's Demo: Unpacking of Interviews at the Demo Show (team) |
| Thur | 4/9/2015 | Demo Presentations (team) Problem Area Overviews (PPT) |
#1-Design Challenge 1: Redesign Engelbart's Demo: Design Demo Presentation (team) | |
| Day | Date | Lecture | Reading | Assignment Due |
| Tue | 4/14/2015 | Team Assignments Brainstorming in Problem Sub-Domains (team) |
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| Thur | 4/16/2015 | Needfinding Plan & Feedback (team) |
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#1-Design Challenge 1: Redesign Engelbart's Demo: Revised Video of Demo (team) |
| Tue | 4/21/2015 | Unpacking Needfinding (team) Empathy map (team) Plan for Further Interviews (team) Surpises, Tensions, Contradictions -> Insights (team) |
Problem Area Readings (TBD) | #3 Needfinding Interviews #1 (team) & Draft Empathy Map (team) |
| Thur | 4/23/2015 | Desing Discovery: Contextual Inquiry & Task Analysis (PPT) Point of View Review (PPT) POV draft (team) |
#3 Needfinding Interviews #2 (team) | |
| Day | Date | Lecture | Reading | Assignment Due |
| Tue | 4/28/2015 | POV share out (team) Prototyping exercise (team) |
Chapter 3 of Contextual Design by Beyer and Holtzblatt |
Point of View (team)
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| Thur | 4/30/2015 | Brainstorming Solutions (team) |
#4 Contextual Inquiry & Task Analysis (team)
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| Tue | 5/5/2015 | Parallel Prototype Presentations (team)
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#5 Parallel Prototypes (team) | |
| Thur | 5/7/2015 | Parallel Prototype User Testing Presentations (team) |
"Making a Paper Prototype" (Ch 4) from Paper Prototyping by Carolyn Snyder | #5 Parallel Prototype User Testing (team) |
| Day | Date | Lecture | Reading | Assignment Due |
| Tue | 5/12/2015 | Present Low-fi Prototype & 1 User Test (team) Work on Prototype in Class |
#6 Low-fi Prototype Testing (team) | |
| Thur | 5/14/2015 | Present Low-fi User Tests (team) Work on Project in Class |
#6 Low-fi Prototype Testing (team) | |
| Tue | 5/19/2015 | Concept Videos & Video Prototypes (PPT) Work on Project in Class |
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| Thur | 5/21/2015 | Present Medium-fi Prototypes (team) storyboarding exercise |
#7 Medium-fi Prototype (team) | |
| Day | Date | Lecture | Reading | Assignment Due |
| Tue | 5/26/2015 | Work on Project in Class | ||
| Thur | 5/28/2015 | Presentation Rehearsels | #8 Concept Video (team) | |
| Tue | 6/2/2015 | Final Presentations / Industry Project Fair | #9 Poster & Final Project Presentation (team) |