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What's Happening This Week 💫
Live Blackboard Collaborate Sessions
- Mini-lectures and Activities Tue Nov 24th 2:30pm PST
Important Reminders
- Usability Inspected Interactive Prototype Fri Dec 4th 11:59pm PST
- Instructor Interactive Prototype Meetings, Nov 26th, 27th, 30th and Dec 1st
Required Readings & One-Minute Summaries
- 10 Principles for Color Usage in UI Design Wed Nov 25th 11:59pm PST
- Accessibility for Visual Design Wed Nov 25th 11:59pm PST
No weekly review quiz.
Online Office (Student) Hours 🏫
Chat 1-on-1 Office Hours
Contact Paul here in Canvas or CSSS Discord:
Wednesdays 12:00-12:30pm PST
Fridays 12:00-12:30pm PST
Chat 1-on-1 Office Hours (here or CSSS Discord):
Wednesdays 12:00-12:30pm PST
Fridays 12:00-12:30pm PST
Zoom 1-on-1 Office Hours:
Wednesdays 12:30-1:30pm PST
Looking Ahead to Next Week 🔭
Week 13 Live Blackboard Collaborate Sessions
Instructor usability inspected interactive prototype meetings, no regularly scheduled Blackboard Collaborate session Tue Dec 1st, weekly readings or quiz.
- Course Wrap-up Thur Dec 3rd 2:30pm PST
Special topics — visual interface design
Required Readings
10 Principles for Color Usage in UI Design (8 minutes)
Accessibility for Visual Design (9 minute read)
Instructor interactive prototype meetings
Zoom group meetings tentatively scheduled between 11:00AM and 4:00PM PST Nov 30th and Dec 1st.
View all of Week 12 (Nov 21 - 27)
What are the essentials of visual interface design?
Required Readings
How to Use C.R.A.P. Design Principles For Better UX? (8 minute read)
Guide for designing better mobile apps typography (8 minute read)
View all of Week 11 (Nov 14 - 20)
Instructor design scenarios and storyboard mockups meetings, no regularly scheduled Blackboard Collaborate sessions, office hours, weekly readings or quiz.
Zoom group meetings tentatively scheduled between 11:00AM and 4:00PM PDT Nov 9th, Nov 10th and Nov 12th.
View all of Week 10 (Nov 7 - 13)
How to bridge the gap between the problem space and design space?
Required Readings
Leveraging Mental Models in UX Design (15 minute read)
Don Norman’s Principles of Interaction Design (8 minute read)
Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites (15 minute read)
View all of Week 9 (Oct 31 - Nov 6)
How to understand and communicate people's needs and behaviours?
Required Readings
A guide to top UX Research methods (8 minute read)
Job Stories Offer a Viable Alternative to User Stories (10 minute read)
View all of Week 8 (Oct 24 - 30)
How to explore and communicate possible design solutions?
Required Readings
Prototyping 101: The Difference between Low-Fidelity and High-Fidelity Prototypes and When to Use Each | Adobe Blog (11 minute read)
Chapter 2: Getting to Know Users and Their Tasks (22 minute read)
View all of Week 7 (Oct 17 - 23)
How to plan, conduct, and summarize usability tests?
Required Readings
An essential guide to Usability Testing (14 minute read)
Write Better Qualitative Usability Tasks: Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid (10 minute read)
View all of Week 4 (Sep 26 - Oct 2)
What is the practice of multi-device interaction design?
Interaction design: a guide for beginners (19 minute read)
Five HCI Laws for User Experience Design (4 minute read)
Touch Targets on Touchscreens (11 minute read)
View all of Week 3 (Sep 19 - 25)
What is usability and user experience design?
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability (7 minute read)
Introduction to User Experience Design (8 minute read)
View all of Week 2 (Sep 12 - 18)
Welcome to CMPT-363 User Interface Design, Fall 2020. To help orientate yourself to the course, explore the course syllabus. You may also want to view a brief tour of Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.
Is this your first fully online course? If so, you might find these articles might be of help:
- 8 Strategies for Getting the Most Out of an Online Class
- What Makes a Successful Online Learner?
- How to study at home during coronavirus – by online students and tutors
BCcampus has a website to help support students during the COVID-19 pandemic which you might also find to be a helpful resource throughout the term:
Weekly course materials will be posted here by Saturday of each week. After the first week, one-minute summaries are due on Wednesday each week, and weekly review quizzes are due on Friday. Major assignments are usually due on Mondays.
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