CSC318

Fall 2018

    The Design of
    Interactive Computational Media


Lecture slides and Readings

Lecture 1: Design Thinking & Course Introduction

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Readings
  • Chapter 6 of Design of Everyday Things (by Don Norman)

Lecture 2: Observations

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Readings
  • Chapter 9 of Observing the User Experience (by Mike Kuniavsky)

Lecture 3: Interviews

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Readings
  • Chapter 4 of Learning from Strangers (by Robert Weiss)

Lecture 4: Questionnaires

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Readings
  • Chapter 10 of Ways of Knowing in HCI (by Hendrik Müller, Aaron Sedley, and Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge)

Lecture 5: Job Stories & Experience Maps

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Readings

Lecture 6: Brainstorm, Ideation & Sketching User Experiences

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Readings
  • Sketching User Experiences, by Bill Buxton (in particular "The Anatomy of Sketching") ( UofT library link )
  • Sketching User Experiences: the Workbook, by Greenberg et al. (in particular "Section 4: Snapshots in Time: The Visual Narrative") ( UofT library link )

Lecture 7: Paper prototyping & Think alouds

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Readings
  • Chapter 4 of Paper prototyping, by Carolyn Snyder

Lecture 8: Heuristic evaluation & Cognitive walkthrough

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Readings
  • Chapter 15 of Interaction Desgin, by Rogers, Preece & Sharp

Lecture 9: Cognitive walkthrough & Usability Testing

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Readings
  • Chapter 9 of Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Usability, by Steve Krug

Lecture 10: Bringing it all together & Communicating the results

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Readings
  • How to critique (see Studio Readings below)

Studios

Readings
Discussing Design : Improving Communication and Collaboration Through Critique, by Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry, O'Reilly Media, 2015. ISBN: 9781491902400.