Gooey: Soft & Sticky (DA259)

Code of conduct

Assignment description

Approach

Schedule

Week 1

Lecture
Homework
  • Form 5 teams.
  • Every team starts reading a book on GUI. You may share the chapters inside your team. In the following 3 meetings, each team presents 3 "golden tips" learned from the book, and each tip should come with 2 examples that are not from the book.
  • Every team takes one of the following tasks. You are supposed to complete the task in 4 weeks. In the last meeting, every team should present the results.
    1. Find two extreme examples of web designs of the same kind, that the team likes most and hates most. Redesign the worst example. Presents the results.
    2. Compare two OS GUIs (for example MAC OS X, KDE, GNOME, and Windows Desktop). Redesigns one of them for a target user group of the team's choice. Presents the results.
    3. Design GUI for a new IDPortal. You have to start from requirement analysis and the final design should meet the requirements.
Resources

Week 2

Activity
  • 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
  • If we have got extra time, we will watch this GooeySoftAndSticky/commercial.wmv together and discuss about it.

Presentations

Week 3

Activity
  • 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
Presentations

Week 4

Activity
  • 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
Presentations

Week 5

Activity
  • Final presentations (results of the team task)
  • Q&A session

  • Feedback session
Presentations
Homework
  • Individual report (no more than 2-page A4 in 10-point typeface) on
    • what has been learned;
    • feedback on the assignment: complaints, comments and suggestions
    • to be delivered it by next Tuesday, 5:00pm

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