Gooey: Soft & Sticky (DA259 0607)

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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.
  • you prefer "N" to "Y".
• 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.

Approach

• learning by doing (together)
• learning from each other
• book, book, and yet another book.

Schedule

Week 1

Lecture

• Overview of GUI history attachment:GooeyHistory.pdf

• Introduction to GUI design process

Homework

• 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 decides to take which one of the following tasks. You are supposed to complete the task in 4 weeks. In the last meeting, every team will present the results.
  • finds 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.
  • compares 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.

    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

• 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 20 minutes for each team. (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)

Week 3

Activity

• 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 20 minutes for each team. (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)

Week 4

Activity

• 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 20 minutes for each team. (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)

Week 5

Activity

• 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
• Final report delivered it by next Tuesday, 5:00pm