CS575Spring 2012

Lecture 8CSULA

Bapa Rao

Agenda for Today

• Review of previous meeting and assignments• User Theory Presentation• Coming week’s assignment• Student reports– UI Prototype Design & Development– CalStateLA (aka CSULA) website evaluation

• [time permitting] Alan Kaye Video

Review of previous meeting

• Continuing student work on heuristic evaluation• Direct Manipulation– What is good Interaction Design?

• Bridge gulf between User and – How do I do?– What happened?

• Bridge gulf between Mental Models– User’s model– Designer’s model

– Semantic expressivity (power) of model– What representations are used for communication?

Last week’s assignment : 1

• Bring yourself and your team up to date on the assignments so far

• You cannot do any coding till you are up to date and I give the OK

• Email me if you have any questions

Last week’s assignment : 2• New Assignment: Use Nielsen’s heuristic evaluation method and

criteria to do an evaluation of the www.csula.edu website.– Due 2012-05-26

• Refer to the Resources for examples and guidelines.• For each team, upload the following:

– each team member does an independent evaluation• Construct a template and fill it out

– Scores, Verbal descriptions

– Consolidate the evaluations of all team members• Average scores, consolidated verbal descriptions

– Debriefing results:• Specific ideas for improving the design of the site.

• Submit and Present in class in 2012-05-26 meeting– Consolidated verbal critique of site, average scores, debriefing results

Assignment for the coming week

• Catch up on the assignments so far– Evaluation spreadsheets– Evaluation reports, implementation plans– Team journals– Individual journals

• Work on your implementation• In-class presentation deadline: June 9, 2012

USER THEORY

(From Stuart Card’s lecture to Stanford HCI class, Fall 2011)