Introduction to the Interaction Design Methods course. 30 January 2014, Tallinn University.

1. IFI7156 Interaction Design Methods:
Introduction to the course
Hans Põldoja

2. Introductions round

3. Hans Põldoja
Lecturer
Tallinn University, Institute of Informatics
Doctoral student
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
http://www.hanspoldoja.net

4. http://ifi7156.wordpress.com

5. Structure of the course
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7 meetings (20 hours)
work on a group project (74 hours)
work on individual assignments (16 hours)
work on literature (20 hours)

6. January
Thu 30.01
Introduction to the course. Introduction to
interaction design. Contextual inquiry.

7. February
Thu 13.02
Personas
Fri 28.02
Scenario-based design. Participatory design
sessions. Concept mapping.

8. March
Thu 13.03
User stories. Paper prototyping.
Thu 27.03
User interface design patterns. Testing the paper
prototypes.

9. April
Thu 24.04
User interface prototyping: tools and techniques

10. May
Thu 08.05
Final presentations

11. Feedback
Feedback
Group
blog
Project
idea
Contextual
inquiry
2 weeks
January 30
Group Assignments
Individual Assignments
Personas
Design
session
Scenarios
Concept
mapping
2 weeks
February 13
Testing
Testing
tasks
2 weeks
February 28
User
stories
2 weeks
March 13
Testing the
paper
prototypes
Paper
prototypes
Feedback
User
interface
prototypes
4 weeks
March 27
Final
presentation
2 weeks
April 24
May 8

12. Feedback
Feedback
Group
blog
Project
idea
Contextual
inquiry
2 weeks
January 30
Group Assignments
Individual Assignments
Personas
Design
session
Scenarios
Concept
mapping
2 weeks
February 13
Testing
tasks
2 weeks
February 28
2 we
March 13

13. Testing
User
stories
Testing the
paper
prototypes
Paper
prototypes
2 weeks
Feedback
User
interface
prototypes
4 weeks
March 27
Final
presentation
2 weeks
April 24
May 8

15. Recommended amount of work
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Lesson / Assignment
Lesson 1: Introduction
Group blog
Project idea
Commenting the project ideas
Contextual inquiry
Lesson 2: Personas
Personas
Lesson 3: Scenario-based design
Scenarios
Commenting the scenarios
Design session summary
Concept map
Lesson 4: Paper prototyping
Testing tasks
User stories
Paper prototypes
Lesson 5: Testing the paper prototypes
Testing the paper prototypes
Testing the paper prototypes
Lesson 6: User interface prototyping
User interface prototypes
Commenting the user interface prototypes
Lesson 7: Final presentations
Final presentation
Contact
Group
Individual
Reading
Lessons Assignments Assignments
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16. Learning environment
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Course blog: http://ifi7156.wordpress.com
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Dropbox: course readings
Group blogs
Course tag: ifi7156 (#ifi7156)
Web 2.0 for sharing media: Mendeley, Twitter,
SlideShare, Scribd, Flickr,YouTube

17. http://twitter.com/ifi7156

18. Dropbox

19. Mendeley

20. Assessement
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Exam
13 group assignments (max 80 points)
4 individual assignments (max 20 points)
The student must attend at least 80% of the
lessons in order to take the exam

21. e-Vent

22. Projects from previous
years

23. http://www.cs.tlu.ee/teemaderegister/

24. Hans Põldoja
hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
Interaction Design Methods
http://ifi7156.wordpress.com
Tallinn University
Institute of Informatics
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