Thursday, 16 April

User-Centered Design 3/4

Personas, Scenarios, Ideate

From David Rodgers

http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/

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As we start to wrap up the course...

Due Dates:

Tuesday, 21 April -- Project 4.3: Prototype Design and Testing due, Reading Response 13 due
Tuesday, 28 April -- Project 4.4: [Final) User-Centered Design Project due, Reading Response 14 due
Thursday, 30 April -- Final Reflection Paper due
Tuesday, 5 May, 10:15 am - 12:15 pm -- Final Exam given

Extra Credit Opportunities:

• Design Journal -- worth up to 5 points on one's final grade, depending upon completeness -- show your mentor your journal at the end of class on Tuesday, 28 April or Thursday, 30 April -- or make an office hours appointment with them
• Sketchnoting -- scan (don't photograph) good examples and email them to your mentor
• Presentation of Interim Work -- on Tuesday, 21 April -- let me know if you want to do that.

Project 4.3:

• How is it going?
• Review Brief

Review of Previous Student Examples

http://designerlinessi300.blogspot.com/2014/12/project-4-good-examples-of-prototype.html

http://designerlinessi300.blogspot.com/p/project-4-user-centered-design.html

Presentation by Mentor Tori Rice

Team Meeting Time

Homework for Tuesday, 21 April at 12:01 am through Assignments on Oncourse:

Complete Project 4.3

Complete Reading Response 13: Read UXD pp. 136 - 143 and answer:

1. What, according to the authors, are the advantages of building apps into existing platforms, like Facebook?
2. What is a “requirements statement”? What are its aspects and why are they important?
3. What is “semantic design”? What are its characteristics and why is it important?