CS575 Spring 2012 Lecture 8 CSULA 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 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 website. – Due 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 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)