1. CS 615 User Interface Design - Overview
Lecture # 1
Gabriel Spitz

2. Lecture Objectives Instructor Course objectives Course outline
Gabriel Spitz

3. Before we start Please send me an email to gspitz@akamai.com
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Gabriel Spitz

4. Who Am I Gabriel Spitz BA, Psychology, NYU MSIE, SUNY Buffalo
Sc.D, Behavioral Sciences, Technion, Israel
Principal Human Akamai, Inc
UX Design, Customer Experience, Research,
Previously, LiveData, Aptima, Wang, BBN, MITRE
I am Human Factors Engineer & User Interface Designer (UX)
Gabriel Spitz

5. Contact Information
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If needed M W 7:45-8:15 pm in class
Lectures’ Website
Gabriel Spitz

6. Frequently Used Names Human Factors Engineer Interface Designer
Interaction Designer/Engineer
Graphical Designer
Usability Engineer
Information Architect
Technical Writer
More…
Gabriel Spitz

7. Course Objectives – Understand
Understand what is a good UI
Goals and criteria of good UI
Lear how to develop a usable and useful UI
UI design process
Become sensitized to poor UI
UI Design issues
Gabriel Spitz

8. Why Take This Course? Software is everywhere
More individuals use software to do their work
Individuals use software for longer and longer portions of their day
User Interface therefore impacts individuals:
Mood
Productivity
Safety
Gabriel Spitz

9. My Design Objectives – Beyond Usability
Create a positive and rewarding user experience when using technology
Design technology with users’ work activity in mind
focus on designs that will enable individuals to be:
Productive - Do the work they need to do and beyond
Efficient – Do it in a way that will save them time and effort
Effective – Do it with minimal or no errors
Safe – Do it with no harm
Happy - 
Gabriel Spitz

10. Task vs. Activity Centered Design
User Task –
Get a Boarding Pass for my flight
User Activity –
Get home fast and comfortably
Is there an earlier flight
Is there a better seat
Check in luggage
Get a Boarding Pass for my flight
Gabriel Spitz

11. Course Requirements Two interface evaluation projects (30%)
Device or software interface evaluation – End of Feb
Website interface evaluation – Beginning of March
A Group project - interface design project –Mid May(40%)
A short midterm (20%)
Class attendance and participation (10%)
Gabriel Spitz

12. Course Books Course book Recommended Web site
Garett, J, J., 2003, The Elements of User Experience, User Centered Design for the Web, New Riders publication(Paperback)
Norman, D.A., 1989, The Design Of Everyday Things. New York, NY, Doubleday 1989
Web site
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13. Course Outline 1/2 Establishing Objectives Approaching the Design
What is UI d why worry about it
How we interact with products; Norman’s Action Model
Goal of UI design & Key UI design principles
Approaching the Design
UI design Process (including HCD)
Getting ready for design; Persona & Scenario
Task Analysis
Gabriel Spitz

14. Course outline 2/2 Designing Evaluation
Understanding the Design Problem – Goals, Users and Environment
Conceptual Design – Scenarios, and low fidelity design concepts
User stories and Activity flow - understanding user’s activities and tasks
Interaction design – stringing tasks together, closure and guiding the user
Interface and dialog design – Wireframe design
Visual Design – High level visual design principles; PARK
Evaluation
Evaluation- heuristic evaluation and user testing
Gabriel Spitz