last revised: July 23, 2008
| Class Number | Date | Lecture Topics | Book Report 1 | Book Report 2 | Readings |
1 |
2-Sep | Course Overview | |||
2 |
9-Sep | Defining IA, Practicing IA |
Book Report: Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn | Book Report: Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building | Polar Bear Book: Ch 1-2 |
3 |
16-Sep | Final Projects Discovery Workshop | websites to become familiar with before Sep 16 will be provided on Sep 9 | ||
4 |
23-Sep | User Needs and Behavior, Anatomy of Information
Architecture |
Book Report: JoAnn Hackos et. al: User and Task Analysis for Interface Design | Book Report: Paco Underhill, Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping | Polar Bear Book: Ch 3-4 |
5 |
30-Sep | Organization sytems, Labeling systems |
Book Report: George Lakoff, Women, Fire and other Dangerous Things | Book Report: Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things | Polar Bear Book: Ch 5-6 |
6 |
7-Oct | Navigation & Search Systems | Book Report: David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous | Book Report: Peter Morville, Ambient Findability | Polar Bear Book: Ch 7-8 |
7 |
14-Oct | Doing IA Design + Documentation |
Book Report: Dan Brown, Communicating Design | Book Report: Christina Wodtke, Blueprints for the Web | Polar Bear Book: Ch 12 |
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21-Oct | Fall Study Break - Final Project Teams Finalized By Now Plz | |||
8 |
28-Oct | Web Credibility I |
Book Report: Kevin Roberts, Lovemarks | Book Report: Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence |
BJ Fogg, Chapter 6 (pdf provided) |
9 |
4-Nov | Web Credibility II |
Final Projects Discovery Workshop: Credibility | BJ Fogg, Chapter 7 (pdf provided) | |
10 |
11-Nov | IA Research, Web Analytics |
Book Report: Brenda Laurel: Design Research | Book Report: Louis Rosenfeld and Richard Wiggins, Search Analytics | Polar Bear Book: Ch 10 |
11 |
18-Nov | IA and SEO and UX (oh my!) |
Book Report: Shari Thurow: Search Engine Visibility | Book Reports: Jesse James Garrett: The Elements of User Experience | Polar Bear Book: Ch 11 |
12 |
25-Nov | ||||
13 |
2-Dec | ||||
14 |
9-Dec | ||||