HCI and Design - Cornell Tech

Instructor: Nicki Dell, nixdell [at] cornell.edu (please use slack instead of email if at all reasonable!)
Full-time TA: Fabian Okeke (fno2 [at] cornell.edu)
Part-time TAs: Zaid Haque (zfh2 [at] cornell.edu), Sam Haveson (seh292 [at] cornell.edu)

Course slack channel: tech-hci-2017.slack.com (sign up here with your Cornell email address)

Office Hours: Nicki: Tuesday/Thursday 12.15-1pm, Baron

Grading (subject to change if necessary)
Assignments: 50%, Reading Questions: 25%, Hands-on Activities: 25%

Lecture
Tuesday/Thursday 11am-12.15pm, Grizzly
Nobody wants to listen to me talk for the whole lecture. Most days, we will break up the class as follows:
First ~5 mins: Short questions on the assigned reading (to be turned in)
Next ~30 mins: Lecture
Last ~40 mins: Hands-on practice (to be turned in)

Devices in Class
We will use smartphones and laptops to facilitate activities and work in-class. However, research and student feedback clearly shows that using devices on non-class related activities not only harms your own learning, but other students' learning as well. Therefore, I only allow device usage during activities that require devices. At all other times, you should put your device away. I'll help you remember this by announcing when to bring devices out and when to put them away.

Schedule (subject to change if necessary)

Date	Topic	Reading	Lecture	Hands-on Activity	Assignments
1/26	Course introduction		Slides	Where are you headed?	A0
Understanding Problems
1/31	Understanding Users	The Design of Everyday Things (You are only required to read chapters 1-2)	Slides	Hall of fame and shame
2/2	Contextual Enquiry	Contextual Interviews and How to Handle Them	Slides	Practice a mini contextual enquiry	A1 description
2/7	Survey Design	Questionnaire Design	Slides	Take and critique a survey, create your own survey
2/9	SNOW DAY Class canceled
2/14	Qualitative Interviews and Focus Groups	1. Qualitative Interview Design: A Practical Guide for Novice Investigators 2. Interview strategies	Slides	Create and conduct a qualitative interview
2/16	Analyzing Qualitative Data	Inductive Content Analysis	Slides	Practice qualitative coding	A1 due A2 description
2/21	NO CLASS - February Break
Designing Solutions
2/23	Paper Prototyping	Prototyping for tiny fingers	Slides	Practice low-fidelity paper prototyping
2/28	From user research to user Journeys (Phil Chung - Google)	1. Inside Goal-Directed Design 2. Task analysis	Slides	Construct a user journey from data
3/2	From user journeys to storyboards (Phil Chung and Seth Thomas - Google)	Tom Wolfe on the New Journalism	Slides	Practice storyboarding	A2 due
3/7	Hierarchy, Patterns, and Typography (Seth and Leland)	Required: Typography Of Interest: Why Typography Matters : Especially At The Oscars	Slides1 Slides2	Deconstruct an app into patterns
3/9	Color and Composition (Leland)	1. What It's Like To See 100 Million Colors 2. The Humans With Super Human Vision	Slides		A3 description
3/14	SNOW DAY Class canceled
3/16	Digital Prototyping	High-fidelity prototyping: What, When, Why and How?	Slides	Practice making a color palette
3/21	Digital Prototyping Workshop	The 7 Best Prototyping Tools for UI and UX Designers in 2016	Slides	Practice digital prototyping in Figma
3/23	Designing for Marginalized Communities	Stories from the Field	Slides	Add interaction to a digital prototype in InVision	A3 due A4 description
3/28	Designing for Disabled People	Design for user empowerment	Slides	Prototype a text-free application
3/30	Web Accessibility	1. Introduction to Web Accessibility 2. Accessibility Principles	Slides	Evaluate an application from a web accessibility perspective
4/4	NO CLASS - Spring Break
4/6	NO CLASS - Spring Break
4/11	Designing for the Future (AR, VR, etc.)	Immersive Design	Slides	Prototype an interface for a VR or AR application
Evaluating Solutions
4/13	Bias and Ethics in HCI	Participant Response Bias in HCI	Slides	Experiment with different types of bias	A4 due
4/18	Usability and Heuristic Evaluation	1. How to conduct a heuristic evaluation 2. 10 usability heuristics	Slides	Practice heuristic evaluation	A5 description
4/20	No class
4/25	AB Experiments	1. The ultimate guide to A/B testing 2. Putting A/B testing in its place	Slides	Design an A/B test
4/27	Experiment Design	Controlled Experiments (Read from "Controlled Experiments" to the end of the page)	Slides	Practice designing controlled experiments
5/2	Analyzing Quantitative Data	Hypothesis Testing (You only need to read the "Hypothesis Testing" section; the section on "Statistical Tests" is optional)	Slides	Course feedback
5/4	Discuss some of Nicki's research projects	Growth vs. Fixed Mindset		Course Evaluations	A5 due
5/9	CLASS CANCELED

Acknowledgements
Many of the materials posted here and used in the course have been shared and refined by other instructors and TAs in previous offerings and at other schools.

HCI and Design - Cornell Tech - Spring 2017