1) Sept 13

Quiz-1 Thursday on Heuristic Evaluation:

• Heuristic Evaluation Overview
• Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics
• How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation
• Rating Severity of Problems

Ass 1 Heuristic Evaluation - details and discussion on Thursday

2) Sept 20

Quiz-2 Tuesday - Personas & Scenarios:

• Introduction to Personas
• What is a Scenario?
• Task-Based Audience Segmentation

Ass 2 Usability Testing- details in class Thursday

3) Sept 27

Quiz-3 Tuesday on User Testing:

• Text book (Steve Krug's), and
• video

Quiz-4 Thursday - Usability Testing:

• Practical Usability Testing
• Using Paper Prototypes to Manage Risk
• Eight is Not Enough
• Guidelines for reviewing usability test reports

Ass 1 Heuristic Evaluation - due by class Thursday (PDF)

4) Oct 4

Quiz-5 Thursday - Paper Prototyping:

• Snyder on Paper Prototyping
• Nielsen on Paper Prototyping
• Looking Back on 16 Years of Paper Prototyping
• HIGH-FIDELITY OR LOW-FIDELITY, PAPER OR COMPUTER

5) Oct 11

Quiz-6 Tuesday - Card Sorting & Affinity Diagramming:

• ASQ
• InfoDesign
• usability.GOV
• Boxes&Arrows

Quiz-7 Tuesday - Other UsabilityTechniques

• Interviewing
• Questionnaire
• Focus Groups
• Task Analysis (PDF)

While not on the quiz, I strongly recommend listening to Gerry Gaffney's podcast on choosing user research methods.

6) Oct 18

User Requirements

7) Oct 25

8) Nov 1

9) Nov 8

Quiz-8 Tuesday on the Contextual Enquiry:

• Contextual Enquiry Primer
• Field Studies: The Best Tool to Discover User Needs
• Gerry Gafne interview with Patrick Larvae - UX at Google
• Field Research, and interview with Kate Gomoll
• Implications of ethnography for design (PDF)

Wireframe Prototype

Quiz-9 Tuesday - UX and Agile Development

• 12 Best Practices for UX in an Agile Environment - Part 1
• UIEtips: 12 Best Practices for UX in an Agile Environment - Part 2
• SpoolCast: UX in an Agile Environment with Jeff Patton (podcast and text)

Quiz-10 Tuesday - Accessibility

Read Sections (2-4):

• 2. Scenarios of People with Disabilities Using the Web
• 3. Different Disabilities That Can Affect Web Accessibility
• 4. Assistive Technologies and Adaptive Strategies

and

• Preliminary Review of Web Sites for Accessibility

Group Presentations (Tuesday and Thursday)

Final Doc & Presentations