assignments

completed assignments-class reading responses

research presentation

Presentations

• 10 minutes for each group member's research results
• 15 minutes to present the interface

Handouts

• Annotated bibliography of sources
• Summary of main points from research
• Implications for information architecture and interaction design
• Overview of interface

Keep your summaries of your research fairly brief. Then explore the implications of your research for your interaction and interface design.

Make connections with other assigned readings and such major course topics as attention, perception and recognition, locus of attention, memory, learning, retention, transfer or problem-solving, cognitive consciousness, usability, efficiency, and pleasure.

Your interface can be presented as photoshop files, html mockups, flash, or paper prototypes.

reading responses

One page, single-spaced. Due weekly.

Response papers should be a thoughtful, engaged exploration of the ideas in the reading. They are an intellectual response to the reading; they are not a summary.

Make connections to other readings—does this text suggest any useful questions or methods that would apply to other texts or to your work activities? Does this text illuminate any issues raised by other texts or experiences? Explore the implications of the author’s work for information architecture or interaction design.

As you evaluate the usefulness of the assigned text, feel free to suggest revisions and/or expansions. Extend the author’s ideas in new directions. Identify unresolved issues or questions that might suggest areas for further research.

Use the response papers to begin sorting out your own priorities, methods, and concerns about the practice and theory of information design and web design— whether you approach these issues in terms of your own scholarly & critical practice, or whether you want to look at issues of teaching I/A or interaction design to others.