Introduction to the IFI7156.DT Interaction Design Methods course, 5 February 2016, Tallinn University

1. IFI7156.DT Interaction Design Methods:
Introduction to the course
Hans Põldoja
IFI7156.DT Interaction Design Methods

2. Hans Põldoja
Lecturer of educational technology
Tallinn University, School of Digital Technologies
Doctoral student
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
http://www.hanspoldoja.net

3. Introductions round

4. Course website
http://ifi7156.wordpress.com

5. Structure of the course
• 5 ECTS / 130 hours
• 8 meetings (26 hours)
• work on a group project (80 hours)
• work on individual assignments (8 hours)
• work on literature (16 hours)

6. Practice
(4 credits)
Evaluating the User Experience
(5 credits)
Interaction Design Methods
(5 credits)
Developing Interactive Systems
(5 credits)
Master Thesis Seminar
(4 credits)
Research Methods
(4 credits)

7. Types of projects
• Web applications
• Mobile applications
• Content-driven projects

16. January
Fri 05.02
Introduction to the course. Introduction to interaction
design. Personas.

17. February
Thu 18.02
Scenario-based design. Participatory design
sessions. Concept mapping.
Thu 03.03
User stories

18. March
Thu 17.03
User interface design patterns. Paper prototyping.
Fri 18.03
Testing and improving the paper prototypes.
Thu 31.03
User interface prototyping: tools and techniques

19. April
Thu 28.04
Feedback to the user interface prototypes

20. May
Thu 12.05
Final presentations

21. Contextual
inquiry
Personas Scenarios
Design
session
Concept
mapping
User
stories
Testing
tasks
Paper
prototypes
Testing the
paper
prototypes
User
interface
prototypes
Feedback Feedback
Final
presentation
Group Assignments
Individual Assignments
Idea generation Contextualization System architecture Prototyping User interface Development
February 1 February 15 February 29 March 28 April 11 April 25 May 9
Testing Final presentations
March 14
Optional Assignments
Card
storting
Information
architecture

22. Contextual
inquiry
Personas Scenarios
Design
session
Concept
mapping
User
stories
Feedback
Group Assignments
Individual Assignments
Idea generation Contextualization System architecture
February 1 February 15 February 29
Optional Assignments
Card
storting
Information
architecture

23. Testing
tasks
Paper
prototypes
Testing the
paper
prototypes
User
interface
prototypes
Feedback
Prototyping User interface Development
March 28 April 11March 14

24. User
interface
prototypes
Feedback
Final
presentation
Development
April 11 April 25 May 9
Testing Final presentations

26. Learning environment
• Course blog: http://ifi7156.wordpress.com
• Group blogs / GitHub / etc
• Course tag: ifi7156 (#ifi7156)
• Web 2.0 for sharing media: Mendeley, Twitter, SlideShare,
Scribd, Flickr, YouTube
• Dropbox: course readings

27. Assessement
• Exam
• 10 group assignments (max 90 points)
• 2 individual assignments (max 10 points)
• Optional assignments with extra points
• The student must attend at least 80% of the lessons in
order to take the exam

28. Project ideas

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Hans Põldoja
hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
Interaction Design Methods
http://ifi7156.wordpress.com
Tallinn University
School of Digital Technologies