Week 1: User Experience (UX) Primer

Week 1 – UX Primer

A User Experience Primer (What is interaction design?) & Human Centred Design (HCD) Case Study 

Readings: 

• The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman, 2013) – Ch.1 “The Psychopathology of Everyday Things” ✅
• What Is Interaction? Are There Different Types? (Dubberly et al., 2009)- 
• Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction (Preece et al., 2015) – Ch. 1 “What is Interaction Design?” ✅
• The frontier of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Bloomberg – These Devices Let you hear through your skin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285Jg0WN2yo) ✅

Lectures (~3hrs videos)

• Course 1: Introduction to User Experience Design – Georgia Institute of Technology
  •  Week 1: Overview of User Experience Design (25min) – Week 2 : Requirement Gathering (53min) ✅
• Course 2: Foundations of User Experience Design – Google UX Course– 
  • Week 1: Introducing user experience design (55mins) ✅
  • Week 2: Getting to know common terms, tools, and frameworks in UX design (59mins) ✅

Tutorial Activity 1: Human Centred Design (HCD) Case Study

• Activity: Create a list of good and bad examples from your life of interactive designs that you use everyday. Use Normans fundamental interaction principles (Affordances, Signifiers, Mappings, Feedback, and Conceptual Models) to break-down how we interact with these everyday things.