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Schedule
Week 1
- Presentation
Overview of GUI history GooeyHistory.pdf
- Homework
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- Experience and compare two OS desktops
- Please form 2-person groups, each run a different desktop. You may sit next to each other to compare and analyze the GUI.
- Tip: focusing on specific tasks: for example, locating an application; removing a file; sending an email etc.
- Prepare for a 5-minute presenation of your findings.
- Start thinking of a new design of an OS desktop of a target user group.
- Experience and compare two OS desktops
- Resources
Ubuntu live CD (GNOME desktop): http://www.ubuntu.com
Kbuntu live CD (KDE desktop): http://www.kubuntu.org
Knoppix live CD (KDE desktop): http://www.knoppix.org/
Solaris 10: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/
Week 2
- Activity
- Presentation of os desktop comparison, and discussion
- Presentation
- GUI design guidelines, Part I
- Homework
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- Read the following book (2 weeks):
- Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug (About web gui design)
Interface Desgin by Peter Bickford or/and GUI Design Essentials by Weinschenk et al.
- Find too extreme examples of web designs that you like most and hate most. Prepare a presentation that tell the story and the reasons (2 weeks).
- Experience with a GNOME desktop that is specially designed for children, or a customized desktop for children from wincustomize.com (1 week).
- Did they improve anything? or they just made things worse?
- Designing/prototyping a new OS desktop for a target user group of your choice (3 weeks)
- Inform me about your choice by the end of this week
- Read the following book (2 weeks):
- Resources
Edubuntu: http://www.edubuntu.org
StarDock has a serials of tools to customize your windows desktop: http://www.stardock.com/
Search for kids or children at http://www.wincustomize.com/ for examples of redesgins of the windows desktop for children.
Week 3
- Presentation
- GUI desgin guidlines, part II
- Activity
Q&A session
- Homework
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- Continure your work from week 2.
Week 4
- Presenation
- GUI design process
- Activity
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- Presentation of your extreme examples of web design
Q&A session
- Homework
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- Finish your design/prototype, prepare for the final presentation
Week 5
- Activity
- Final presenations