These criteria are similar to those used in previous incarnations of this class. I did rearrange the instructor's form a bit to take into account the comments you entered in the SpeakEasy
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In Class: Midterm presentations, 15 minutes long, each team member should speak.
DUE: SpeakEasy Assignment #1 - You should have each entered at least one non-anonymous comment in the "How do you evaluate a case study?" topic. As announced last week in class -- if you were not in class last week please talk to Alice or Brandon
More Photoshop and Digitial Video from guest lecturer -- Robert Lettieri. Robert works in our Courseware Studio and has authored books on QuickTime as well as given many workshops in multimedia authoring and digital video. He is a great resource. He will be covering a bit more about Photoshop and give an introduction to Digital Video (QuickTime, Premier, etc.). Robert will also spend part of the class period helping you individually. So if you have any specific questions on Photoshop you should make sure to ask Robert during class.
DUE: Premilinary storyboards are due at the end of class.
Each group should hand their storyboards in to Robert. Alice and I will review them when we return. This is nothing super formal, we would like to see what your thoughts are on your project.
ASSIGNMENT: Revised Home Pages are due next week, Wednesday, April 16. The "Revised Home Page Assignment" is only if you want to improve your score on your home pages. Some of you got 10/9 and 9/9 meaning you probably don't need to do anything! :> However, some of you got less than 9/9 and if you address all the comments of things that need to be fixed you can improve your score -- I highly encourage you to make changes! If you have any specific questions, send me mail at
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ANNOUNCEMENT: I have scheduled an additional office hour on Monday, April 14 from 9:30-10:30. The office hour will either be held in my office in 3112 Etcheverry or in the MacLab in 3116 Etcheverry, please check both. If any of you can't make it, let me know and let me know when you can meet and I'll see what I can schedule.
Handout (hard copy only): Nielsen, Jakob, "Traditional Dialogue Design Applied to Modern User Interfaces," Communications of the ACM, October 1990, Vol. 33, No. 10, p. 111.
Handout (hard copy only): Cooper, Alan, "About Face - The Essentials of User Interface Design," Programmers Press, 1995, Chapter 1.
Some of you were asking about Image Maps. I have put a brief how-to instructions on-line. You can use WebMap in the Web Authoring folder to find out the coordinates. This Friday we will upload some other software to the computers to help with Image Map creation.
We'll look at a piece of software, Vizability by Curtis, Woolsey, and Kim.
In class you will look at the Boeing 777 case and suggest changes to its user interface (how it looks and operates).
Next week more on User Interfaces
DUE: Personal Home Page (The due date for this is a bit fluid since some of the class had big technical problems.)
ASSIGNMENT: Bring in Project Ideas for Next Week's Class. We will begin working on the class projects soon, so bring in any ideas you might have. Current list of suggested projects.
We will also be doing an in-class dissection of a hard disk drive and look at a Disk Drive Case Study. An on-line sampler is available. You can also check out a neat disk drive animation (4.5MB).
ASSIGNMENT: Homepage and Essay On-line DUE Tuesday, March 4, 1997 at 5:00 p.m.
