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Prep for tonight
Wednesday expanded personas
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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.