Week 11
Quizzes back...graded on a curve
Projects
Functionality/Wild Card
Week 10
Quiz
More critiqueing
Usability Report
Pam and etsy
What's due
Week 9
Look at home comps
What rules are we following?
Usability?
Bad Forms
Which form element to use when (quiz)
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/examples/bad_form.html
https://secure.jobs.ac.uk/apply/44.html
https://app.commonapp.org/Application/RegisterApplicant.aspx
Paper prototypes
Create top-level metadata tags for proposed website
Create a sitepath diagram for proposed website
Week 7
Close up theme maps
Still need theme maps Tyler, Darrell, Christine, Jon Ramirez (Ernie, Brian)
Check Product Lists
Catch up to last week
Course review
One Quiz in week 10
Dissecting navigation further review/
Structural/Associative/Utility
Create top-level metadata tags for proposed website
Create a sitepath diagram for proposed website
Home Comp due in week 8
Week 6
Final Theme Maps
Dissecting navigation further
Create top-level metadata tags for proposed website
Create a sitepath diagram for proposed website
Create simple tree/comb flowcharts
Keyword Relevance
Use the links below to find the best Keywords to use for your company's site. Develop a list of 10 popular keywords related to your company. Provide a short explanation of why you chose each term. (what data convinced you to use that keyword?)
Check how often a keyword is searched for:
What are people searching for?
Week 5
Look at semi comps
Information Design from an ecommerce perspective
Conducting Usability tests
What is Taxonomy? A deeper look.
http://www.wandinc.com/main/english/html/sol_ecommerce.asp
Review of what is a Faceted Classification System
http://www.webdesignpractices.com/navigation/facets.html
http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-web-howto.html
Pick a retail store idea
Information Architecture for a sample store...user process
hw: Clean up theme maps.
Week 4
http://ixxivvi.com/images/web/guitar.jpg
Theme Maps and Relations
Rather than simply mirroring your org chart, you can better enhance usability by creating an information architecture that reflects how users view the content
Card Sorting and more
http://www.webdesignpractices.com/navigation/facets.html
websort.net
Picking a Retail Site for a final project
week 4 materials
Week 3
A little clarity for Montez on the db assignment
Check assignment 1
What makes a good information graphic
past class examples
professional examples
Experimental Navigation
Hands on: Making sure everyone knows how to build a nav in flash
Finish in class assignment 2
Week 2
How is our flash?
Review on affordance/anticryptography
Digital Semi Comps
Job Aids
Job Aid Exercise
Montez help/dynamic without dynamic
Week 1
What do we know or not know?
What's wdimschedule.com
Game Plan
What is interactive media design?
What is information design?
anticryptography, the science of conveying information without assuming any prior knowledge.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/tbone/warningsigns/gallery.html
Designing Elevator graphics: open/close
The theory of affordance
delta vs expedia
Review file and web management, FTP process.
The user experience.
Homework: National Park Assignment