Administrivia
Professor Marti Hearst
Email: hearst@sims.berkeley.edu
Office number: 510-642-8016
Office Hours: Monday 3:00am-4:00am Wednesday 11:30am-12:30pm 212 South Hall TBD
TA Jon Snydal
Email: jon@sims.berkeley.edu
TA Andrew Fiore
Course Description
Course Information
Course Dates: January 18 to May 5, 2005
Lecture Schedule: Tuesday Thursday 9:00am-10:30am in 202 South Hall
Units: 4
Grading Option: Letter Grade only
Course Texts
Required
Usability Engineering, Jacob Nielsen. .
GUI Bloopers, Jeff Johnson. .
The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman. .
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, Alan Cooper. .
Reader
Grading Criteria
30% Midterm
20% Individual written assignments
50% Group Project
Course Work
January 18 : Tuesday
Resources
January 20 : Thursday
January 25 : Tuesday
Sullivan Case Study; Project Coordinating
Required Readings
Ch. 1 - 4 of Usability Engineering [Textbook]
"The Windows 95 User Interface" Sullivan [Reader]
Resources
January 27 : Thursday
Required Readings
Ch. 7 of Usability Engineering [Textbook]
"Some Techniques for Observing Users" Kathleen Gomoll [Reader]
Resources
February 1 : Tuesday
February 3 : Thursday
February 8 : Tuesday
February 10 : Thursday
February 15 : Tuesday
Mental Models, Mappings, Metaphor
Required Readings
Ch 5 of The Design of Everyday Things [Textbook]
Ch 28 [Reader]
About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, Cooper. ()
"Cognetics and the Locus of Attention" Raskin [Reader]
Ch 5 of GUI Bloopers [Textbook, pp. 288-304]
Resources
February 17 : Thursday
February 22 : Tuesday
February 24 : Thursday
Low-fi prototyping and testing
Required Readings
"Prototyping for tiny fingers" Rettig [Reader]
"Prototyping Tools and Techniques" Beaudouin-Lafon [Reader]
"A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design" Garrett [Reader]
Resources
March 1 : Tuesday
March 3 : Thursday
Required Readings
"Information design using card sorting" Robertson [Reader]
"Analyzing Card Sort Results with a Spreadsheet Template" Lamantia [Reader]
Resources
March 8 : Tuesday
Required Readings
Ch 6 of Usability Engineering [Textbook]
"User Interface Evaluation in the Real World: A Comparison of Four Techniques" Jeffries et al. [Reader]
"Designing and Interpreting Psychological Experiments" Robson [Reader]
Resources
March 10 : Thursday
Finish Formal Usability Testing; Midterm review/practice
Required Readings
"An empirical evaluation of some articulatory and cognitive aspects of "marking menus"" Gordon Kurtenbach, William Buxton and Andrew Sellen [Reader]
Journal of Human Computer Interaction
"User learning and performance with marking menus" Gordon Kurtenbach and William Buxton [Reader]
Proceedings of CHI (1994)
Practice Midterm [Online]
Resources
March 15 : Tuesday
March 31 : Thursday
April 5 : Tuesday
April 26 : Tuesday
April 28 : Thursday
May 13 : Friday
last updated on 2005-01-21 by dLH