Syllabus Weekly schedule

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Syllabus Weekly schedule
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Project Deliverable 1

• Required elements
• Product statement
• One use case
• Redesign justification
• Format-specific additional requirements
• Document 4 page max, submit document
• Presentation 5 minute max, submit
  slides/handouts
• Grading criteria All deliverables should
• Embody professional-level communication
• Fulfill core requirements (see above)
• Exemplify user-centric language
• Address additional demands of the communication
  event

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Project Sharing Exercise 4

• Team level discussion
• Teams share results of user and task analyses
• Note Jennifer Anita circulate, distribute
  exercises, and answer questions
• Class-level discussion
• Debriefing, Teams share one insight that think
  may benefit other teams

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Discussion of Readings

• Focus
• How do designers use knowledge of users, tasks,
  and contexts to understand observed usability
  problems?
• How does one set priorities for a UCD redesign?
  How does one constrain redesign?
• How do designers communicate the requirements
  that guide their redesign, and serve as the basis
  of an agreement about scope?
• How do designers manage the scope of a project?
  What are the challenges associated with managing
  scope (e.g., scope creep)?

• Process
• Divide into two rooms
• Position Paper discussants
• Sedgwick, Main room
• Tassielli, Main room
• Stutzman, Secondary room
• Jafarzadeh, Secondary room
• Everyone else First digit of social security
  number
• 0 through 4, Secondary room
• 5 through 9, Main room

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Proposing rqmts, Setting scope

• Goal of proposing

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Your Job

• Group 1 Reverse engineer a product statement
• Based on the information communicated in the main
  page, create a product statement that could have
  guided the design of the Labor and Industries
  website.
• Group 2 Reverse engineer a use case
• Based on the information communicated in the main
  page, develop a use case capturing the
  interaction that is offered when someone enters
  this online organization(what does the page
  suggest that users want to know or do and how
  does the system respond).

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Proposing rqmts, Setting scope
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Proposing rqmts, Setting scope

• Looking across solutions
• What differences exist? What do differences
  mean?
• Looking across solutions and experience
• What is required in order to create the product
  statement? Use cases?
• What difficulties did you experience (or do you
  anticipate) in constructing the product
  statement? Use case?