Happy global accessibility awareness day!

Presentations

• Dragontown
  • Festival of Education
  • Neighbor.ly
  • Dragon Trails
  • Dragon’s Keep
• Product Subscriptions
  • Scripture Cookies
  • Courtney
  • Ancient Arts

What’s Due

By 11:59PM tonight, all individual work should be submitted.

317 students

• Team Evaluation Survey
• Accessibility Survey (if you haven’t completed it yet)
• Process Books
• Timesheets

Class Topics

• Critique at 11:30
• Short Daily UI reflection (Submmit as a Google Doc on drive). What did you learn by doing this assignment all semester? What was your best UI? Why? Was there something different about the process or the content for that particular challenge? Be as specific as possible.

Deadlines

• Final project due on May 16 at the final (8am). Be prepared to present your work formally at the final. Presentations should be 7-8min.
• Daily UI blog should be complete and up to date by Monday, May 13 at 8am
• Any missing back work is also due by Monday, May 13 at 8am

Class Topics

• Critique: make sure prototype is live
• UI Challenge

Class Topics

• UI Challenge
• Weekly Update
• Prepare for critique this Thursday. Minimally mobile for all components (website and email) should be ready. Final critique is next Thursday.

Class Topics

• Designing useful user tests
  • Don’t lead the witness.
  • You are testing the product not the tester.
  • Use open-ended questions.
  • Ask the user to share their thought process out loud.
• Designing useful proofs of concept
  • Consider the essence of the product or service.
  • Consider key user flows.
  • Build less by being strategic.
  • Consider accessibility from the beginning.
• Website Case Study: Adobe Creative Types Quiz, background information on the quiz available in “We all have a creative type” by Carolyn Gregoire in Adobe Create Magazine.

Class Topics

• Finalize 317 feedback
• Share and give feedback to prototypes with each other
• Check in with Rebecca at 12pm

Class Topics

• UI Challenge
• Finish feedback/site evaluations. Print and have Rebecca review. Revise as necessary. These need to be handed back to 317 students today.
• Work on thumbnails and prototypes

Homework

• Work on building paper prototypes that you can test in class.

Class Topics

• Site Evaluations (no UI challenge today)
• Pitches
• Set up and experiment with Mailchimp account

Class Topics

• UI Challenge
• Email Rebecca a brief summary of your idea for the Product project.
• Work on Product project.
• Help 317 students if they get stuck/need help.

Class TOpics

• UI Challenge
• Print and mount posters

Class Topics

• UI Challenge
• Posters for Quest
• Product Subscription

Class Topics

• Presentations of Print to Screen
• Work on Print to Screen Posters
• UI Challenge

Homework

• Finish Print to Screen Posters

Class Topics

• UI Exercise
• Work on poster layouts

Homework

• Finalize Project 1 including portfolio documentation, process book and website. Be prepared to present your work on Tuesday!

Class Topics

• Thinking in sketches: Making and using effective and useful thumbnails and wireframes
• Critique on Project 1
• Discussion of presenting work (both as a presentation and as a poster) and documenting work for your portfolio.
• UI exercise (do at the end of class today)

Class Topics

• Focus on revising web version of the Print to Screen project based on feedback from critique. Ideally this should be finished or very close to finished by Tuesday. On Tuesday we are going to shift focus to Phase 5 including how to display, document and present your work.

Class Topics

• UI Blog
• Process Updates (presentations) and critique
• Review comments (in the rubric in Blackboard) for landing page

Homework

• Revisions to Project 1

Class Topics

• Work day. Prepare for critique on Tuesday.

Class Topics

• Check-ins:
  • Design Notebook for Project 1
  • UI Challenge Blogs
• Intro to Screen Readers (Voice Over)
  • WebAim: Testing with Screen Readers
  • WebAim: Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Accessibility

Class Topics

• Read WebAim: Alternative Text
• Continue working on Project 1 (remember that you should be putting in 3-4 hours outside of class each week)

Class Topics

• UI Challenge
• Critique of prints
• Valentine Challenge

Homework

• Print revisions based on critique. Update design notebook—these will be checked on Tuesday.

Class Topics

• UI Challenge (30 min)
• Work on print layouts for Project 1 in InDesign. Remember to use master pages and paragraph styles.

Homework

• Prepare for critique. Remember to bring prints to class.

Class Topics

• UI Challenge (30 min)
• WordPress Resource: Go Gutenberg, WordPress Documentation, WordPress Apps
• InVisionApp Resources: Demo, InVision Training Workshops (at scheduled times with a real person)InVision for UX Design (Lynda), InVision Essential Training:Studio (Lynda)
• Introduce Project 1. Complete Phases 1&2

Homework

• Complete Units 3&4 in WordPress Essential Training course on Lynda.com
• Update UI Challenge website

Class Topics

• Critique/Evaluation of Bio Landing Page
• Start Daily UI assignment
• WordPress: Pages vs. Posts

Homework

• Bio Landing Page Revisions

Class Topics

Snow day: classes are canceled.

Homework

• Please plan to finish your exercise for Monday. Please make your exercise live on the web for critique.
• Please subscribe to the DailyUI mailing list.
• Set up a free account on WordPress.com
• Watch Introduction, 1. Up and Running with WordPress, 2. Content Management in WordPress 5 Essential Training on Lynda.com
• Make sure you’ve created your folder for the class on Google Drive as per the instructions in the syllabus.

Course Topics

• Hopes & Fears
• Exercise: Bio Landing Page
• Sign up for DailyUI
• Slack group
• Set up Google Drive Folder

Homework

• Work on Bio Landing Page
• Complete Wordress 5 Essential Training on Lynda.com