Week Topic Assigned Sketches Due Reading
01 (13 Jan) Design Thinking Exercise, Introductions, Syllabus, Canvas, Accessibility Milestone 1 (accessible report)
02 (20 Jan) Design Principles, Intro to two design tools (Figma and Framer) 1, Friday midnight
03 (27 Jan) Mood boards, Design Inspiration, Sketching, Crazy Eights Milestone 2 (project proposal) assigned Milestone 1 (accessibility) Monday midnight
04 (03 Feb) Story Mapping, Scenarios, Table View Controllers 2, Friday midnight @Patton2014a
05 (10 Feb) How Might We (HMW) statements, Ideation, Diverging & Converging, Prototyping Levels, System diagramming, Prototyping definitions Milestone 3 (design system) Milestone 2 (project proposal) Monday midnight @Becker2020 (Ch 7), @Buxton2007
06 (17 Feb) Prototyping elements, Color, Typography, Layout, Animation 3, Friday midnight
07 (24 Feb) Agile Development Milestone 4 (alpha prototype) Milestone 3 (design system) Monday midnight
08 (03 Mar) Working with clients 4, Friday midnight @Greever2020
09 (10 Mar) Micro interactions, Pair designing, Bad UX and UX writing Milestone 5 (beta prototype) Milestone 4 (alpha prototype) Monday midnight
Spring Break
10 (24 Mar) Peer evaluation of this class, Formative & Summative Testing 5, Friday midnight
11 (31 Mar) Heuristic Evaluation, Affinity Mapping, Team work Milestone 6 (testing) Milestone 5 (beta prototype) Monday midnight
12 (07 Apr) User Testing dot Com, Fuel Cycle, Empty States 6, Friday midnight
13 (14 Apr) Leading a prototyping workshop Milestone 7 (final prototype) Milestone 6 (testing) Monday midnight @Stackowiak2020 Chapter 2
14 (21 Apr) Summary, Presentations Milestone 7 (final prototype), Final exam "Reflections" due at our Final Exam time