COGS120/CSE170 Scott Klemmer · Winter 2015 UCSD
In this course, you will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. To do this, you'll learn techniques for rapidly prototyping and evaluating multiple interface alternatives — and why rapid prototyping and comparative evaluation are essential to excellent interaction design. You'll learn how to conduct fieldwork with people to help generate design ideas. You'll learn how to make paper prototypes and low-fidelity mock-ups that are interactive — and how to use these designs to get feedback from teammates, clients, and users. You'll learn principles of visual design, perception and cognition so that you can effectively organize and present information with your interfaces. And you'll learn how to perform and analyze controlled experiments online.
Through a series of weekly assignments, you will complete a quarter-long project in teams of three. Each week, in small design studios, you present and discuss work with peers. The setting for the course is mobile web applications. The constraints of this small form factor set the stage for this challenge.
Instructor bio. Scott is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Before joining UCSD, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he co-directed the Human-Computer Interaction Group and held the Bredt Faculty Scholar development chair. Organizations around the world use his lab's open-source design tools and curricula; several books and popular press articles have covered his research and teaching. He helped introduce peer assessment to open online education, and taught the first peer-assessed online course. He has been awarded the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, and Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles; eight were awarded best paper or honorable mention at the premier HCI conferences (CHI/UIST/CSCW). His former graduate students are leading professors, researchers, founders, social entrepreneurs, and engineers. He has a dual BA in Art-Semiotics and Computer Science from Brown University, Graphic Design work at RISD, and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He serves on the editorial board of TOCHI and HCI, co-chaired the UIST 2011 program, co-chaired the CHI 2010 systems area, and has served on advisory boards for academic programs, research labs, and startups passionate about interaction design.
| Week | Lecture | Lab | Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
January 7Introduction |
January 9 |
Due Thursday, 1/9, 11:59 pm PDT |
2 |
January 14Needfinding |
January 16 |
Due Thursday, 1/16, 11:59 pm PDT |
3 |
January 21Prototyping |
January 23Scott at Stanford; Laura Pina lecture Quiz 1 |
Due Thursday, 1/23, 11:59 pm PDT |
4 |
January 28Heuristic evaluation |
January 30Servers |
Due Thursday, 1/30, 11:59 pm PDT |
5 |
February 4Mental models and distributing cognition |
February 6 |
Due Thursday, 2/6, 11:59 pm PDT |
6 |
February 11Visual design |
February 13 |
Due Thursday, 2/13, 11:59 pm PDT |
7 |
February 18Scott at CSCW; Galit Hofree lecture Running Experiments Quiz 2 |
February 20 |
Due Thursday, 2/20, 11:59 pm PDT |
8 |
February 25Input |
February 27 |
Due Thursday, 2/27, 11:59 pm PDT |
9 |
March 4Scott at Learning@Scale; Adam Mekrut lecture
Presenting design work Quiz 3 |
March 6Optional: Open office hours |
Due Friday, 3/7, 8:30am PDT |
10 |
March 11Social computing |
March 13No formal class; staff available for presentation feedback. |
Due Thursday, 3/13, 11:59 pm PDT |