Introduction to the Interaction Design Methods course. 26 January 2013, Tallinn University.

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

2. Introductions round

3. Hans Põldoja
Researcher
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
• 7 meetings (20 hours)
• work on a group project (74 hours)
• work on individual assignments (16 hours)
• work on literature (20 hours)

6. January
Sat 26.01
Introduction to the course. Introduction to
interaction design. Contextual inquiry.

7. February
Sat 09.02
Personas
Sat 23.02
Scenario-based design. Participatory design
sessions. Concept mapping.

8. March
Sat 23.03
User stories. Paper prototyping.

9. April
Sat 06.04
User interface design patterns. Testing the
paper prototypes.
Sat 20.04
User interface prototyping: tools and
techniques

10. May
04.05
Final presentations

11. Feedback Feedback Testing Feedback
Testing the User
Group Project Contextual Design Concept User Testing Paper Final
blog idea inquiry Personas Scenarios session mapping stories task
paper interface presentation
prototypes prototypes
prototypes
2 weeks 2 weeks 4 weeks 2 weeks 2 weeks 2 weeks
January 26 February 6 February 23 March 23 April 6 April 20 May 4
Group Assignments
Individual Assignments

12. Feedback Feedback
Group Project Contextual Design
blog idea inquiry Personas Scenarios session
2 weeks 2 weeks 4 weeks
January 26 February 6 February 23
Group Assignments
Individual Assignments

13. Testing Feedback
Testing the User
Concept User Testing Paper Final
mapping stories task
paper interface presentation
prototypes prototypes
prototypes
2 weeks 2 weeks 2 weeks
March 23 April 6 April 20 May 4

15. Recommended amount of work
Date / Due Contact Group Individual
Number Lesson / Assignment Reading
Date Lessons Assignments Assignments
26.01.2013 Lesson 1: Introduction 2
27.01.2013 GA 1.1 Group blog 1
03.02.2013 GA 1.2 Project idea 1
10.02.2013 IA 1 Commenting the project ideas 4
09.02.2013 GA 1.3 Contextual inquiry 6
09.02.2013 Lesson 2: Personas 2
21.02.2013 GA 2.1 Personas 8
23.02.2013 Lesson 3: Scenario-based design 4
03.03.2013 GA 3.1 Scenarios 8
10.03.2013 IA 2 Commenting the scenarios 4
21.03.2013 GA 3.2 Design session summary 6
21.03.2013 GA 3.3 Concept map 4
23.03.2013 Lesson 4: Paper prototyping 4
31.03.2013 GA 4.1 User stories 3
31.03.2013 GA 4.2 Testing task 1
04.04.2013 GA 4.3 Paper prototypes 12
06.04.2013 Lesson 5: Testing the paper prototypes 4
18.04.2013 GA 5.1 Testing the paper prototypes 6
18.04.2013 IA 3 Testing the paper prototypes 4
20.04.2013 Lesson 6: User interface prototyping 2
28.04.2013 GA 6.1 User interface prototypes 12
04.05.2013 IA 4 Commenting the user interface prototypes 4
04.05.2013 Lesson 7: Final presentations 2
04.05.2013 GA 7.1 Final presentation 6
20 74 16 20

16. Learning environment
• Course blog: http://ifi7156.wordpress.com
• Group blogs
• Course tag: ifi7156 (#ifi7156)
• Web 2.0 for sharing media: Mendeley, Twitter,
SlideShare, Scribd, Flickr,YouTube
• Dropbox: course readings

17. Mendeley

18. http://twitter.com/ifi7156

19. Assessement
• 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

20. e-Vent

21. Projects from previous
years

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