last revised: April 8, 2008
| Class Number | Date | Lecture Topics | Presentation Topic 1 | Presentation Topic 2 | Textbook Readings |
1 |
8-Jan | Course Overview | |||
2 |
15-Jan | Defining IA, Practicing IA Facebook Slides PDF of slides |
Book Report: Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn | Book Report: Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building | Polar Bear Book: Ch 1-2 |
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22-Jan | Guest Lecture: Peter Morville Ambient Findability | Book Report: Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things | Book Report: Malcom McCullough, Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing and Environmental Knowing | Optional: Ambient Findability, by Peter Morville |
3 |
29-Jan | User Needs and Behavior, Anatomy of Information
Architecture Facebook Slides PDF of slides |
Book Report: JoAnn Hackos et. al: User and Task Analysis for Interface Design | Book Report: Paco Underhill, Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping | Polar Bear Book: Ch 3-4 |
4 |
5-Feb | Organization sytems, Labeling systems Facebook Slides PDF of slides |
Book Report: George Lakoff, Women, Fire and other Dangerous Things | Book Report: David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous | Polar Bear Book: Ch 5-6 |
5 |
12-Feb | Navigation Systems, Facebook Slides PDF of slides |
Overflow book report slot | Final Project Deliverables Show And Tell | Polar Bear Book: Ch 7-8 |
6 |
19-Feb | Search Systems, Design + Documentation Facebook Slides PDF of slides |
Book Report: Dan Brown, Communicating Design | Polar Bear Book: Ch 8, 12 | |
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26-Feb | Spring Break | |||
7 |
4-Mar | Web Credibility I Facebook Slides PDF of slides |
Book Report: Kevin Roberts, Lovemarks | Book Report: Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence | BJ Fogg, Chapter 6 (pdf provided) |
8 |
11-Mar | Web Credibility II Facebook Slides PDF of slides |
Book Report: Locke, Levine, Searles, Weinberger: The Cluetrain Manifesto | Inclass work on credibility | BJ Fogg, Chapter 7 (pdf provided) |
9 |
18-Mar | Web Credibility Presentations | |||
10 |
25-Mar | IA Research, Web Analytics Facebook Slides PDF of slides ZIP of PDF of slides |
Book Report: Brenda Laurel: Design Research | Polar Bear Book: Ch 10 | |
11 |
1-Apr | IA Strategy and SEO Facebook Slides PDF of slides ZIP of PDF of slides |
Polar Bear Book: Ch 11 | ||
12 |
8-Apr | IA and User Experience | Book Reports: Jesse James Garrett: The Elements of User Experience, Fried Et. Al.: Getting Real | Enlighten User Experience Panel | |
13 |
15-Apr | Final Presentations | |||