Course Outline, Class Notes Links, and Assignment Due-Date Calendar

Project assignments, with appropriate deliverables and dates for their completion are given below. These dates are firm, with at least the up-front expectation that there will be no extensions or exceptions. It is nearly impossible to slip dates and still get it all done in the semester.

Lecture #	Day	Date	Topic	Class notes	Text chapters	Project assignment/ due date
1	Mon	5/24	Introduction, demographic survey	01-Intro.pdf (1, 3)	-
2	Tue	5/25	Process: Life Cycle, Systems Analysis	02-LC.pdf (1, 3), 03-SA.pdf (1, 3)	1 & 4	Project teams assigned
3	Wed	5/26	Product concept statement, Systems Analysis, exercises	-	5
4	Thu	5/27	Systems Analysis, exercises	-	-	Homework 1 due
5	Fri	5/28	Systems Analysis, exercises	-	-	Project 1: Topic, Client, and Product Concept Statement
	Mon	5/31	Memorial day: No class
6	Tue	6/1	Scenarios & Screen Design	04-Design.pdf (1, 3)	5
7	Wed	6/2	Scenarios & Screen Design show and tell	-	-	Project 2: Systems Analysis
8	Thu	6/3	Scenarios & Screen Design exercises	-	-
9	Fri	6/4	Benchmark Tasks, Usability Specifications, exercises	05-Uspecs.pdf (1, 3)	8
10	Mon	6/7	Rapid Prototyping	06-RP.pdf (1, 3)	9	Review 1
11	Tue	6/8	Rapid Prototyping, exercises	-	-	Project 3: Scenarios, Screen Design, and Early Prototype
12	Wed	6/9	Usability evaluation (Intro), Usability evaluation (Before data collection)	07-Eval intro.pdf (1, 3), 08-Eval before.pdf (1, 3)	10
13	Thu	6/10	Usability evaluation (During data collection), critical incident exercises	09-Eval during.pdf (1, 3) Critical incident training	-
14	Fri	6/11	Midterm
15	Mon	6/14	Usability evaluation (During data collection): in-class demo	avi files: User 1 Expert 1 User 2 Expert 2	-	Homework 2 due (in class activity)
16	Tue	6/15	Usability evaluation (During data collection): in-class exercise	-	-	Project 4: High-Fidelity Prototype and Usability Specifications
17	Wed	6/16	Usability evaluation (After data collection) In-class prototype and evaluation show and tell	10-Eval after.pdf (1, 3)	-
18	Thu	6/17	Usability evaluation (After data collection): team exercise	-	-
19	Fri	6/18	Product: design guidelines	11-guidelines.pdf (1, 3)	2	Review 2
20	Mon	6/21	Design guidelines	-	-
21	Tue	6/22	Design guidelines	-	-	Project 5: Formative Usability Evaluation
22	Wed	6/23	Web usability	12-Web intro.pdf (1, 3), 13-Web usab.pdf (1, 3)	-
23	Thu	6/24	Design guidelines: exercises Usability Inspection	14-guidexer.pdf (1, 3) 15-Usab inspn.pdf (1, 3)	-
24	Fri	6/25	Other topics	-	-
25	Mon	6/28	Wrap up	16-wrap up.pdf (1, 3)	-
26	Tue	6/29	Team presentations	-	-	Homework 3 due Project 6: Oral Presentations (Teams 1, 2, 3)
27	Wed	6/30	Team presentations	-	-	Project 6: Oral Presentations (Teams 4, 5, 6)
28	Thu	7/1	Recap for final and Faculty evaluation (attendance required)	-	12	Project 7: Team Member Evaluations All extra credit forms due
Sat, 3rd July			Final Exam