F26 CS 449/649 Schedule
The schedule below is subject to change. Please check this page regularly for updates.
All To-Dos are due at 5 pm the day before your next lab, unless stated otherwise.
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Sept 7 – 11 (Week 0)
No lecture or studio
Sept 14 – 18 (Week 1)
Lecture:
- Course overview
- What and why HCI
- Design process
- Value propositions
- Personas
Studio:
- Team formation
- T1 Team contract
- D1 Value proposition
To-Do:
- Submit team information*
- T1 Team contract
- D1 Value proposition
- P1 Ethics Training
- P2 Persona Ideation
*Team information due at end of Week 1 (Sept 18) at 5pm
Sept 21 – 25 (Week 2)
Lecture:
- Understanding people
- Empathy mapping
- Exploratory methods
- Interviews
Studio:
- D2 Refine personas
- D3 Draft interview questions
To-Do:
- D2 Persona development
- D3 Interview questions
- T2 Team reflection
- P3 Mock Interviews
Sept 28 – Oct 2 (Week 3)
Lecture:
- Drawing insights from data
- Affinity diagramming
Studio:
- D3 Update interview questions
- D4 Affinity diagramming
To-Do:
- D3 Interview questions
- D4 Affinity diagramming
- P01a Interviews (1-2x)
- CH1 Challenge report (draft)
- P4 Feature Brainstorming
Oct 5 – 9 (Week 4)
Lecture:
- Translating needs to functionality
- POV and HMW
- JTBD + task analysis
- Feature ideation + assessment
Studio:
- D5 Brainstorm, challenge and concretize features
To-Do:
- D5 Features
- P01a Interviews (2x)
- CH1 Challenge report (draft)
- P5 Feature revisions
Oct 12 – 16 (Week 5)
Reading week - no lecture or studio
Oct 19 – 23 (Week 6)
Lecture:
- Creating design ideas
- Creative process
- Stories, scenarios, + use cases
- Storyboards
- Design argument and statements
Studio:
- D6 Sketches and flows
To-Do:
- D6 Sketches and flows
- P01a Interviews (2x)
- CH1 Challenge report (draft)
- R1 Research proposal draft (CS 649 only)
- P7 Paper prototyping
Oct 26 – 30 (Week 7)
Lecture:
- Low-fidelity prototyping + evaluation
- Design principles + specifications
- Sketches, wireframes, and flows
- Paper prototypes
Studio:
- CH2 Challenge report presentation
To-Do:
- CH1 Challenge report (final)
- P01a Interviews (2x)
- P8 Prototype evaluation
Nov 2 – 6 (Week 8)
Lecture:
- Guest lecture (TBA)
Studio:
- D7 Paper prototyping
To-Do:
- D7 Paper prototyping
- P9 High-fidelity prototype
Nov 9 – 13 (Week 9)
Lecture:
- Guest lecture (TBA)
Studio:
- E1 Low-fidelity prototype evaluation
To-Do:
- Design notebook entry for E1
- P10 High-fidelity prototyping and reflection
Nov 16 – 20 (Week 10)
Lecture:
- Visual design and high-fidelity prototyping
Studio:
- D8 High-fidelity prototyping and reflection
To-Do:
- D8 Designing for the real world
- T2 Team reflection
- P01b Interviews - High fidelity prototype (1x)
- P11 Design critique preparation
Nov 23 – 27 (Week 11)
Lecture:
- High-fidelity prototyping evaluation
- Heuristic evaluation
- Cognitive walkthrough
- Usability testing
Studio:
- CR Design critique
To-Do:
- Design notebook entry for CR
- P01b Interviews - High fidelity prototype (1x)
- P12 Cognitive & heuristic evaluation
Nov 30 – Dec 4 (Week 12)
Lecture:
- HCI research in academia
- HCI in industry
Studio:
- E2 Heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough
To-Do:
- Design notebook entry for E2
- Course perception survey
- Team evaluation survey
- P02c Project presentation slides*
- P13 Final products
* P02c due 11:59pm Sunday December 6
Dec 7 – 11 (Week 13)
Lecture:
- P02c Final project presentations
Studio:
- No studio this week
To-Do:
- P02a Final prototype
- P02b Demo video
- P02d Design portfolio
- POX Team peer evaluation
- R2 Research paper (CS 649 only)
All Week 13 to-dos are due 5pm on Tuesday, Dec 15