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The schedule for the Summer 2024 term of IAT-334Interface Design

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May 8 (Wk 01)
May 15 (Wk 02)
May 22 (Wk 03)
May 29 (Wk 04)
June 5 (Wk 05)
June 12 (Wk 06)
June 19 (Wk 07)
June 26 (Wk 08)
July 3 (Wk 09)
July 10 (Wk 10)
July 17 (Wk 11)
July 24 (Wk 12)
July 31 (Wk 13)

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Summer 2024 term of IAT-334Interface Design
Date (Week)	In lecture	In Lab	Due	Reading(s)
May 8 (01)	User Interface Thinking An introduction to the course as well as getting you started on sketching interfaces.	Introduction to P1: Features Sketch #1 Reflection #1		Butler, Chris. (2023). "On Persuasion." Retrieved 8/29/2024, from https://www.chrbutler.com/2023-04-15
May 15 (02)	Aesthetic Affordances Considering guidelines and affordances in designing interactions.	Sketch #2 Reflection #2		Krishna, Golden. (2015). "Screen-based Thinking: Let's Make an App! (Chapter 2)." The Best Interface Is No Interface. New Riders.
May 22 (03)	Aesthetic Assessment More on affordances and heuristic assessment of interfaces.	Sketch #3 Reflection #3		Hall, Erika. (2013). "The Process (Chapter 3)." Just Enough Research. A Book Apart.
May 29 (04)	Understanding Users Looking at different types of users, their goals, and how we can understand them.	Introduction to P2: Heuristics Sketch #4	P1: Features	Thomas, David Dylan. (2020). "Our Own Bias (Chapter 4)." Design for Cognitive Bias. A Book Apart.
June 5 (05)	Talking to Humans An introduction to approaches for interviewing users and the resulting consideration of research ethics.	Sketch #5 Reflection #4		Sharon, Tomer. (2016). "Who Are the Users? (Chapter 2)." Validating Product Ideas. Rosenfeld Media.
June 12 (06)	Teeny Tiny Actions and Patterns Exploration of more interaction and interface patterns as well as the introduction of microinteractions.	Sketch #6		Head, Val. (2016). "Sketching Interface Animations - An Interview with Eva-Lotta Lamm." Retrieved 8/29/2024, from https://valhead.com/2016/12/08/sketching-interface-animations-an-interview-with-eva-lotta-lamm/
June 19 (07)	UI for Humans A recap of human-specific issues in interface design including (but not limited to) accessibility and culture.	Introduction to P3: Interface Proposal Sketch #7	P2: Heuristics	Walter, Aaron. (2020). "Designing for Humans (Chapter 2)." Designing for Emotion. A Book Apart.
June 26 (08)	Surveying the Land Surveying users and deriving meaning from research results.	Reflection #5		Akpem, Senongo. (2020). "Culturally Responsive Experiences (Chapter 5)." Cross-Cultural Design. A Book Apart.
July 3 (09)	Protoflow How we go about prototyping testable interfaces and interactions.	Introduction to P4: Interface Design Sketch #8	P3: Interface Proposal	Perez-Cruz, Yesenia. (2019). "Communicating Your Brand (Chapter 3)." Expressive Design Systems. A Book Apart.
July 10 (10)	When We Fail Dealing with the reality of when we fail... because we will at some point fail.	Sketch #9 Reflection #6		Bowles, Cennydd. (2018). "Persuasive Mechanisms." Future Ethics. NowNext Press.
July 17 (11)	Interface the Future Looking into future considerations or aspects of interface design.	Sketch #10		Shedroff, Nathan and Noessel, Christopher. (2012). "Visual Interfaces (Chapter 3)." Make it So. Rosenfeld Media.
July 24 (12)	App Day Pitch your apps to your peers.	Introduction to P5: Introduction	P4: Interface Design
July 31 (13)	Final critiques Final critiques on course deliverables.		P5: Introduction