Interaction Design

DM2280B spring 2013 · Corcoran College of Art + Design
Instructor: David Ramos alberto_ramos@corcoran.edu

Schedule

Reading assignments are listed under the class when they are due.
Plan to work on a project steadily, each week, until the project is complete.

Jump to next class

24 Jan.

Topics

  • Introduction

From class

  • Elizabeth Coleman at TED and AIGA

Projects

  • Start Tour
  • Start your weblogs

31 Jan.

Topics

  • RTFM: mental models
  • Let’s break things: fast paper prototyping
  • Bring pen and markers, scissors or x-acto knives, tape, and (if you own one) a mobile device with POP installed

Projects

Reading

7 Feb.

Topics

  • Stories about users: personas and scenarios

In class

Projects

  • Present and critique Tour
  • Present your initial ideas for your project for Interface

Reading

14 Feb.

Topics

  • (Pushed to 21 Feb.)

21 Feb.

Topics

  • How people read interfaces: affordances and feedback

Reading

28 Feb.

Topics

  • Doorways, not tabs: designing navigational systems

Reading

  • Norman, Design of Everyday Things, ch. 4

7 March

Topics

  • A place for every thing, and every thing in its place: website organization and cardsorting methods
  • Big push on Interface

Reading

  • Wodtke and Govella, Information Architecture, ch. 1 (principles)
  • Optional: NYT on fax machines in Japan

14 March

Topics

  • Ways of knowing: analytics and usability testing

Reading

21 March

Spring Break!

28 March

Topics

  • Everyone makes mistakes: managing user error
  • 238,900 miles from home: design in the Apollo Program

Projects

  • Semifinal critique for Interface

Reading

4 April

Topics

  • Process, and communicating design

Reading

Projects

11 April

Topics

  • The Internet of Things: physical computing

Reading

Projects

18 April

Topics

  • Guest speaker: Willie Shubert, Internews/Earth Journalism Network
  • Reach out and touch someone: physical computing
  • Place: design for spatial problems

Reading

  • [moved]

25 April

Topics

  • Only connect: design with accessibility in mind
  • Text as interface

Reading

Optional reading

2 May

Topics

  • One hand, one eye: navigation for mobile contexts

Optional reading

9 May

Topics

  • Conclusion

Projects

  • Final critique Structure and experience
  • Finish process documents

Optional reading

16 May

Topics

  • Optional makeup class
  • Arduino/physical computing intro