Class Meetings
Week 1: Why HCI?
Wednesday
- Caffeinated Design Activity to get an overview of a design process
Friday
- Debrief the design activity
- Project kickoff
- First Sharpening Your Eye
- We didn’t discuss in class, but: what do you think of the speed limit display?
Week 2: Ideation and Needfinding
Monday
- Contextual Inquiry activity
- Video break: Most Embarrassing Design Fails
- Project work time
Wednesday
- Ideation activity
- Video break deferred
- Sharpen Your Eye 2: (coffee)
- we’ll start by summarizing what we noticed from the first time, along each of the aspects at the top of the document.
Friday
- Project Progress Sharing
- Video break: Bad Doors
- What makes a good design?
Week 3: Prototyping (paper and digital)
Monday
Wednesday
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Sharpen Your Eye 3
- Project work time
Friday
- Project Progress Sharing
Week 4: Testing
Monday
- Usability Testing
- Project work time
Wednesday
- Rubric for course
- Reminder to read and comment on Perusall
- Example design process for an Arnold lab writing prototype
- Needfinding
- non-native English speakers, revising in English
- peer discussion: What is the importance of needfinding in the design process?
- Point of View statement: as a ______ I want to ______ so that ______
- peer discussion: What is the importance of a point of view statement in the design process?
- Storyboard
- peer discussion: What is the importance of storyboarding in the design process?
- User testing
- peer discussion: What is the importance of user testing in the design process?
- Needfinding
- Video break: living with lag
- Project work time (if time)
Friday
Guest: Harry Gu, Calvin alum.
- Reentry Guide design process, with focus on:
- needfinding and user research
- usability testing: prep, execution, analysis
- Q&A
- mini project studio: a few teams present their project so far, for feedback from Harry and the class.
Suggested questions:
- How did you gain empathy with your users?
- How did the key findings of user research inform your design?
- What did you learn from usability testing?
- What was the most important part of the process? What would you do differently next time?
Week 5
Monday
- Accessibility and Inclusivity
- Sharpen Your Eye?
Wednesday
- No official class meeting since many students will be at the Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair (see x95 schedule)
- Those who can make it can meet in the usual room for project work time.
Friday
Guest Lecture: Joel Sytsma and Rebekah Williamson (Motorola), both Calvin alums.
Week 6
Monday
- Debrief guest lecture
- Design with/for AI
- Project feedback time
Wednesday
October 9: Juliana (Juli) Lim, Research Coordinator @ Indeed, Calvin alum. Teams.
Career paths in HCI: Many assume that HCI only leads to UX designer or UX researcher roles, but there are many other paths, such as operations, software engineering, survey science, customer experience, and more!
Activity: LinkedIn profiles, portfolios, and resumes.
Friday
Design workshop: Each team should bring their progress so far and one thing that’s not yet done, and we’ll share and give feedback. Consider this a warm-up for presentations next week.
Week 7: Project Presentations
Monday and Wednesday.
Sign up for a time slot, see Teams.