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Gooey: Soft & Sticky (DG217)
Contents
Code of conduct
- This assignment will not be considered to be completed if
- you attend less than 60% of the meetings.
- you fail to deliver any of the presentations and the reports in time.
- you quit the assignment.
- Any excuses of not attending the meetings must be emailed to me 2 hours piror to the scheduled time.
- No excuse after the scheduled time.
Assignment description
See GooeySoftAndSticky.
Approach
- learning by doing (together)
- learning from each other
- book, book, and yet another book.
Groups
- Group 1: “Gui Bloopers”
- Group 2: “Software for Use”.
- Group 3: "Don't make me think".
- Group 4: "Designing Interfaces".
Schedule
Week 1
- Lecture
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Introduction to GUI and Overview of the history GooeySoftAndSticky/GooeyHistory.pdf
- Homework
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- Form 4 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Design a new theme for WordPress.
- Any other interesting tasks. But confirm with me first.
- 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
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- 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
Week 3
- Activity
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- 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
Week 4
- Activity
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- 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
Week 6
- Activity
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- Final presentations (results of the team task)
Q&A session
- Feedback session
- 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
- If you deliver your report through email, please indicate "DA217" in the subject.
- Individual report (no more than 2-page A4 in 10-point typeface) on