DHA 5342 - Class Schedule

Interactive Design 2: Interface Design

Spring Semester 2010
McNeal 305MB (Mac Backroom)
MW 8:30 - 10:40 am

Revised January 19, 2010

Class-Date Class Activities Due this session Project

Week
1-Wed Jan 20 Class Syllabus Register your Avatar Class Introduction
Week 1 Accessing the Class
Server Send your Avatar
Review of Class Goals name to instructor
Second Life Project Intro
Handout - Registration,
Avatars & Navigation
Assignment 1 -
Education Places
2-Mon Jan 25 Building Objects and Start designing your Second Life Project
Week 2 Textures in SL ideal Workstation - Part 1

Handout - Building
Objects
Assignment 2 -
Building Computer
Workstations
3-Wed Jan 27 Basic Scripting in Preliminary Workstation Second Life Project
Week 2 Second Life designs DUE - Part 1

Handout - Scripting
Objects in Linden Script
Assignment 3 -
Scripting Your
Workstation
4-Mon Feb 1 Gathering Data in SL Interactive Workstation Second Life Project
Week 3 Handout - Survey Tool designs DUE - Part 1
Object

Assignment 4 - In- Practice Survey

world Surveys Instruments DUE
5-Wed Feb 3 Present to class and Results of Workstation Second Life Project
Week 3 Jamil Jabr Surveys DUE - Part 2

Assignment 5 -
Establishing al Design
Practice
6-Mon Feb 8 Doing Design in Virtual Preliminary Design Second Life Project
Week 4 Worlds Concepts DUE - Part 2

7-Wed Feb 10 Review of Design Market Surveys DUE Second Life Project
Week 4 Objects and Practice - Part 2

8-Mon Feb 15 Presentations of SL Design Practice Second Life Project

Week 5 Market-tested Designs P rojects DUE - Part 2

Present to class and

invited guest
9-Wed Feb 17 Wiki Web Home 1st Draft Glossary Term Wiki Project
Week 5 introduction Definitions DUE

Handout - WikiWords
(on Wiki site)
Handout - Text
Formatting Rules (on
Wiki site)
Assignment - Wiki
Glossary of Terms
10-Mon Feb 22 Wiki for an iPhone Betas of Wiki Entry Wiki Project
Week 6 Pages DUE
Creating Wiki Entry Betas of Wiki Survey
Pages Pages DUE
Creating Your Survey
Pages
11-Wed Feb 24 Continue work on Wiki Continue Wiki Project
Week 6 Entry and Survey Pages
12-Mon Mar 1 Presentation of your Wiki Projects DUE Wiki Project
Week 7 Personal Entry Pages
Presentation of your
Personal Survey Pages
13-Wed Mar 3 Class visitor - iPhone App Project
Week 7 Dakota Brown - iPhone
developer

Introduction to Widgets,
Apps & Mobile Devices
Handout - Alphas,
Betas, and Gold
Assignment - Concept
generation for Apps
14-Mon Mar 8 Review of App App Concepts DUE iPhone App Project
Week 8 Concepts

15-Wed Mar 10 Review App alpha Read iPhone App Project

Week 8 designs
App alphas DUE
March 15 &17 Spring Break
16-Mon Mar 22 App beta designs App betas DUE iPhone App Project
Week 10
17-Wed Mar 24 App redesigns and Tester feedback DUE iPhone App Project
Week 10 tester feedback
18-Mon Mar 29 Final revisions, Continue work iPhone App Project
Week 11 packaging and minor
functioning
19-Wed Mar 31 App Projects Presented Wiki/App Projects DUE iPhone App Project
Week 11 within your Wiki Project
environment
20-Mon Apr 5 Field Trip: Usability Lab Non-Profit Web Site
Week 12 - B26 Walter Library
21-Wed Apr 7 Introduction to Non- Read Non-Profit Web Site
Week 12 Profit Client

Client Interviews and

Asset Review

Assignment - Site
Maps
22-Mon Apr 12 Tutorial - Using Read Non-Profit Web Site
Week 13 Dreamweaver CS4

Handout - CSS
Handout - Style Guides
23-Wed Apr 14 MinneWebCon Read Chapters 2-4 and Non-Profit Web Site
Week 13 discussion discuss
Elements of User
Experience discussion
More on Dreamweaver

Assignment - Rough
Site Layouts
24-Mon Apr 19 Review Route Site Read Chapters 5,6 and Non-Profit Web Site
Week 14 Layouts discuss
Can be in Photoshop or Discuss client progress
Illustrator
Site Roughs DUE
Handout - A Handy
Toolkit of Scripts
25-Wed Apr 21 Roughs in Discuss client progress Non-Profit Web Site
Week 14 Dreamweaver
Site Maps DUE

Assignment - Early
"Alpha" Designs
26-Mon Apr 26 Review of Designs with Early Alpha Designs Non-Profit Web Site
Week 15 Clients DUE
Finalize list of assets
27-Wed Apr 28 "Beta" Test Site Review interface Non-Profit Web Site
Week 15 navigations

Style Guides DUE

28-Mon May 3 Continue on final Final tweaking of Non-Profit Web Site
Week 16 designs designs
29-Wed May 5 Presentations to class, Non-Profit Web Site Non-Profit Web Site
Week 16 live online. Project DUE.
Mon May 1010:40am No Class - All work not We're done
previously turned in is
complete and turned in
by this time.