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Prep for tonight

Wednesday expanded personas

• Done? Andrew  // Jackson  // KatieC  // KatieJ  // Nicole

Friday virtual class

• Watch this video — prepare a response (minimum 500 words) that links video content to your project (and convinces me that you watched it in toto).  Post to class WP site before 11:59 pm on Friday (category: in-class).
  • Done? Andrew  // Jackson  // KatieC  // KatieJ (provided notice that this is late)  // Nicole
• Watch this video — use the concepts here to help you refine your wireframes for Monday. Prepare a response (minimum 300 words) that explains how you are evolving your wireframe design   Post to class WP site before 11:59 pm on Friday (category: research).
  • Done? Andrew  // Jackson  // KatieC  // KatieJ  // Nicole
• Review this Slideshare presentation — what concepts/tips resonate with you as a one-person UX team this session?  Post to class WP site before 11:59 pm on Friday (category: journal).
  • Done? Andrew  // Jackson  // KatieC  // KatieJ  // Nicole

Assignments for Friday

• Read Ch6, Elements.
  Read Signifiers, not affordances;  Poynter eye-tracking study
  Reading prompt: Thinking about your projects, how do these readings help you with your visual design? Interaction design? Post to class WP site before 5 pm on Friday (category: reading). 
  • Done? Andrew  // Jackson  // KatieC  // KatieJ  // Nicole
• Research post: test your competitor sites with one of your personas, all of your tasks.  Post to class WP site before 5 pm on Friday (category: research).
  • Done? Andrew  // Jackson  // KatieC  // KatieJ  // Nicole
• Research post: post the low-fidelity wireframes for your project. Post to class WP site before 5 pm on Friday (category: research).
  • Done? Andrew  // Jackson  // KatieC  // KatieJ  // Nicole

Assignments for Monday

• Read Ch 12-16, Cooper.
  Reading prompt: Thinking about your projects, how do these readings help you with your visual design? Interaction design? Post to class WP site before 5 pm on Monday (category: reading).
  • Done? Andrew  // Jackson  // KatieC  // KatieJ  // Nicole
• Research post: post the high-fidelity wireframes for your project.  Post to class WP site before 5 pm on Monday.
  • Done? Andrew  // Jackson  // KatieC  // KatieJ  // Nicole

 

Tonight’s discussion

• Quiz: 45 minutes (timed – answers PDF)
• Well-behaved products: we’ll develop a list of five characteristics, working in small groups. I’ll post here
• Back-end mini-lecture (so you are familiar with terminology)
  • Javascript/jquery (first six minutes of 1st & 3rd YouTube clip)
  • HTML5/CSS (2nd YouTube clip)
  • Ruby (web) / dotNet (Win) / Objective C (iOS) / Java (AndroidOS)
  • A responsive implementation: Twitter Bootstrap / Built with Bootstrap
  • NOTE: You have access to Lynda.com tutorials with your Seattle Public Library card
• Extra-credit opportunities — you tell me what works (send me email tonight)

 

Discussion

 

Lab – inVision

• Demo: inVision
  • I started from the Snohomish County Library Overdrive site and searched for [10% happier dan harris]
  • Note this URL: overdrive-audio-books.sno-isle.org
  • Note: not-well-behaved application
• Using the wireframes provided by Kathy, create a working prototype. Add me to your project (kegill at gmail).
  • Kathy will draw the process flow
    
  • Global navigation
    
• In-class:  test your three competitor sites with one of your personas, using all of the tasks for that persona.  Post to class WP site before leaving (category: research).
• Extra-credit opportunities — you tell me what works (send me email tonight)

 

Next session assignments

• Read Social computing; Words matter.
  Reading prompt: how are you going to incorporate social media into your project? Post to class WP site before 5 pm on Monday.
• Research post: provide detailed scenarios/tasks for your prototype.  Post to class WP site before 5 pm on Wednesday.