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This summary outlines the agenda and key topics covered in HCDE 518 during Winter 2011. Notable activities included team presentations on urban gardening, health bridge projects, and healthy eating. The class also focused on user-centered design (UCD) processes, user research methods, and various design techniques, including prototyping and evaluation. Participants were encouraged to provide feedback on course deliverables. The summary includes details on exams and individual assignments, with a special mention of course evaluations highlighting the students' achievements.
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Class Summary HCDE 518 Winter 2011 With credit to Jake Wobbrock, Dave Hendry, Andy Ko, Jennifer Turns, & Mark Zachry
Agenda • Announcements, Hand in assignments • Team Presentations • Urban Gardeners • Health Bridge • Healthy Eating • Break – 10 mins • Team Presentations • Daily Errands • Teleworkers • Project Discussion • Break – 10 mins • Class Summary • Exam Review • Class Evaluations • Group Project Work Time
Announcements • R8 returned today • P3 returned over email • As I mentioned yesterday, you guys KICKED BUTT!
Order (random!) • Urban Gardeners • Health Bridge • Healthy Eating • BREAK • Daily Errands • Teleworkers
Course Topics • Interface bloopers • IDEO Deep Dive • What is design? • Design vs. engineering • Design vs. art • Design processes • Moggridge, Maguire, HCDE 518 • User Research Methods • IDEO 51 Method Cards • Interviews • Contextual Inquiry • Design Ethnography • Data Recording Techniques • Storyboards • Personas • Scenarios • Ideation • Brainstorming • Sketching techniques and methods • Prototyping • Lo-fi vs. hi-fi • Paper prototyping • Specific tools discussion • Analytic Evaluation • Heuristic Evaluation • Empirical Evaluation • Usability Testing • Field Studies • Trends in UCD
Feedback on Course Deliverables • Individual Assignments • A1: Thinking about Design • A2: Look, Learn, Ask, Try • A3: Paper Prototyping • Project Deliverables • P1: User Research & Personas • P2: Ideation & Sketching • P3: Prototypes • P4: Final Report including Evaluation • Sketching Project • Readings & Reflections
About the Exam • Conducted via Catalyst on Tuesday, March 15th from 6:00-8:00 P.M. • 10 short answer questions • 1 bonus extra point question (1 point) • 40 total points (10% of your grade) • Should hopefully take about 1 hour if you have read the readings and attended lectures
Exam - Things to Know • The user centered-design process • Examples of techniques from each stage of the design process • Storyboarding guidelines • How to do ideation and why • How to create a persona and why • How to do a heuristic evaluation (using Nielsen’s heuristics) • When to do a usability test vs. a field study
Exam - Things to Know • How to write user-centered tasks for a usability evaluation • Different prototyping techniques and their strengths/weaknesses • High fidelity vs. low fidelity prototyping • Characteristics of a sketch • Difference between sketch and prototype • User research techniques and their strengths/weaknesses • Applying the whole UCD process to a design problem
Other comments about course? • The good? • The bad? • The :) ugly?