Processes and Workflows: Visual Interaction Design
Week 13 - November 30, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Final submission to all materials;
- Podium presentation;
- Connect with Toronto’s Design Community - Design X;
- Become a tester at Usability Hub and Usertesting.com.
Week 12 - November 23, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Remmember to Usertesting.com Study Metrics submission;
- Small group review for Project 3.
Due next week
- Final submission to all materials;
- Proposal (Written Component, Application Architecture (inspired by the site map technique) and Persona)*;
- Mood Boards (Option A, Option B);
- Wireframes (Low Fidelity, Mid Fidelity);
- High Fidelity Interactive Prototype (InVision Link);
- User Testing Component (Questions Proposition, Excel File Study Metrics, Take Aways Text Component);
Week 11 - November 16, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Attention, our Slack Channel is over storage quota. Please delete all large files and switch it to digital locker instead;
- Introduction to Peer Reviews;
- Introduction to Usertesting.com Submission Process;
- Introduction to Post-testing Steps;
- Introduction to Take aways writtent component;
- Small group review for Project 3.
Due next week
- Full High Fidelity InVision Prototype (The more you do for next week the better is for one last round of feedback before the delivery);
- If you have not already done so, you must be in process to submit your questions at your instructor and ultimately on Usertesting.com;
- Reading - 9 Steps for Creating the Perfect User Test;
- Reading - Lessons From An Expert: What to Test;
Week 10 - November 9, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Introduction to Usertesting.com;
- Create a Usertesting.com account - Make sure you to use the email address on this document;
- Usertesting.com - Watch Tutorial Demo;
- Introduction to Questions Strategy for UserTesting;
- Introduction to Consent Form for Research;
- InVision In Class Demo - Various Topic according to each Instructors;
- Small group review for Project 3.
Due next week
- 2 High And Robust Contrast Mood Boards;
- First Iteration of High Fidelity Mockups Mockups;
- First InVision prototype (could be done with Mid Fidelity wireframes);
- Usertesting.com - Watch Tutorial Demo;
- Usertesting.com - Create a questionnaire first draft for validation/approval of your instructor. Bring a paper copy for instructors signature. Submission to participants will start next week. Do not submit any tests before the agreement of the instructors first;
- Usertesting.com - Custom the Consent Form PDF for your project purpose;
- Reading - Usertesting The Guide To Usertesting;
- Reading - Usertesting Best Practices;
- Reading - Nielsen Norman Group - User Testing.
Week 9 - November 2, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Introduction to Project 3;
- Introduction, Setup and Demo with InVision;
- Revision on Personas and Wireframes.
Due next week
- Project 3 - Proposals (Written component, Persona & Application Architecture);
- Project 3 - Low Fidelity & Mid Fidelity Wireframes;
- InVision - The Classroom tutorial;
- InVision - Learn Tutorials (need to be sign in);
- Reading - 7 rules for mobile UI button design;
- Reading - Dropdown alternatives for better (mobile) forms;
- Reading - Mobile Design Best Practices;
- Reading - Mobile UI Design: Basic Types of Screens;
- Watching - Erik Spiekermann: Typomaniac.
Week 8 - October 26, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- No Class. Reading Week
Week 7 - October 19, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Small group review of HTML Prototype + All materials from Project 2.
Due After Reading Week (Nov 2 class)
- Project 2 - Fully interactive integrated website with Responsive Framework. Make sure your code is validated.
Week 6 - October 12, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Collecting All Research Ethics Tutorial Certificate - TCPS 2: CORE - Student List Done;
- Introduction to In Class Exercise 5;
- Small group review of High Fidelity Mockups from Project 2.
Due next week
- Project 2 - Interactive Bootstrap prototype (Homepage + One Inside Page). Attention, the more you do before reading week, the better is;
- Project 2 - High-Fidelity Mockups / Wireframes revisions - all pages (mobile, tablet and desktop);
- Project 2 - Lynda.com Bootstrap 3 Chapter 8 & 9;
- Project 2 - NavBar Bootstrap Tutorial 1;
- Project 2 - NavBar Bootstrap Tutorial 2;
- Reading - Splash Pages: Do We Really Need Them?;
Week 5 - October 5, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Collecting All Research Ethics Tutorial Certificate - TCPS 2: CORE - Student List Done;
- Introduction to In Class Exercise 4;
- Introduction to High Fidelity Mockups;
- Small group review of Wireframes Mid-Fidelity and Moodboards from Project 2.
Due next week
- Project 2 - High Fidelity Mockups.
Week 4 - September 28, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Introduction to In Class Exercise 3;
- Introduction to Wireframes Mid-Fidelity;
- Introduction to Mood boards;
- Small group review of Personas and Wireframes Low-fidelity from Project 2.
Due next week
- Project 2 - Wireframes Mid-Fidelity;
- Project 2 - Mood Boards;
- Project 2 - Lynda.com Bootstrap 3 Chapter 3,4 and 6;
- Research Ethics Tutorial Certificate - TCPS 2: CORE - Student List Done;
- Reading - Design Inspiration Resources;
- Reading - Fashion Web Design Inspiration;
- Reading - Getting Typography Right in Digital Design;
- Reading - Images with Bootstrap;
- Reading - Mood Boards In UX Design: Ignite Passion In Your Users;
- Reading - Weekly Inspiration for Designers;
- Reading - Wireframes by Top UX Designers;
Week 3 - September 21, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Introduction to Bootstrap 3;
- Introduction to In Class Exercise 2;
- Introduction to Personas;
- Introduction to Wireframes (Low Fidelity);
- Introduction to Project 2;
- Individual code review of Project 1;
Due next week
- Project 2 - Proposal (Written Component, Site Map & Personas);
- Project 2 - Wireframes Low Fidelity;
- Project 2 - Lynda.com Bootstap 3 Chapter 2 Working with the Grid;
- Research Ethics Tutorial Certificate - TCPS 2: CORE;
- Reading - Site Maps - The beginners guide;
- Reading - Stop Talking and Start Sketching: A Guide to Paper Prototyping;
- Reading - The art of UX sketching and paper prototyping;
- Reading - The Skeptic’s Guide To Low-Fidelity Prototyping;
- Reading - Wireframing Usability.
Week 2 - September 14, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Introduction to Research Ethics and online tutorial TCPS 2: CORE;
- Introduction to Media Queries;
- In Class Exercise 1: Responsive web design – continued;
- Small group review of grid-based visual compositions for Project 1.
Due next week
- Project 1 - Functional responsive layouts;
- Reading - Getting Typography Right in Digital Design;
- Reading - Learn Layout - Media Queries;
- Reading - Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte;
- Reading - Responsive Web Design Basics.
Week 1 - September 7, 2017
Lectures and assignments
- Welcome!;
- Introduction to the course (outline | schedule);
- Accessing Digital Locker (filed under FAQs and linking files from Digital Locker to your project and exercise pages;
- Slack account creation and invitation into our class' group;
- HTML and TEXT editors | Atom | TextWrangler | BBEdit | Coda 2 | Brackets | Sublime Text 2 (Mac & PC);
- Validating your code: Markup Validation Service | HTML Document Types (p181) | Declaring Character Encodings in HTML;
- Lecture on HTML 5 Elements from Jon Duckett's HTML & CSS book;
- Introduction to In Class Exercise 1;
- Introduction to Grid-based design;
- Introduction to Project 1;
Due next week
- Reading - 10 Rules for Students and Teachers by John Cage
- Reading - Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design Smashing Magazine article
- Reading - The Birth of the User by Ellen Lupton
- Reading - What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?
- Project 1 - Grid-based visual compositions for three different screen sizes