User-Centered Web Technology SS2018 Schedule

Tentative Schedule

Week	KW	Date	Topic	Reading	Reports Due
1	14	Thu, 2018-04-12	Introduction to class & Topics	Chapter 2: What is User-Centered Design & 3 Working with Users
2	15	Thu, 2018-04-19	Introduction to UCD
3	16	Thu, 2018-04-26	User Research	up to 3/5: Personas
4	17	Thu, 2018-05-03	User Research: Personas
5	18	Thu, 2018-05-10	— no class —
6	19	Thu, 2018-05-17	Design the Product		User Research Report
7	20	Thu, 2018-05-24	Design the Product
8	21	Mon, 2018-06-04	Low Fidelity Prototype
9	22	Thu, 2018-06-07	Low Fidelity Prototype
10	23	Thu, 2018-06-14	User Testing I		Product Design Report
11	24	Thu, 2018-06-21	User Testing I
12	25	Thu, 2018-06-28	High Fidelity Prototype
13	26	Thu, 2018-07-05	Input on A/B Tests and Prototype Tests / High Fidelity Prototype
14	27	Thu, 2018-07-12	Input on Usability Tests / User Testing II
15	28	Thu, 2018-07-19	User Testing II
16	29	Thu, 2018-07-26	Final Presentations		Final Report (tbd)

Chapter 4: Personas. In: Mathis, Lukas: Designed for Use, 2nd ed. Pragmatic Programmers, 2016. in Moodle.
Aurora Harley: Personas Make Users Memorable for Product Team Members. Article on the Nielsen Norman Group Site, 2015.
Laubheimer, Page: Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done, 2017 - article on the Nielsen Norman Group Site.

Charles G. Hill, Maren Haag, Alannah Oleson, Chris Mendez, Nicola Marsden, Anita Sarma, and Margaret Burnett. 2017. Gender-Inclusiveness Personas vs. Stereotyping: Can We Have it Both Ways?. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6658-6671. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025609 Article in Moodle, Talk also available as video.
Topic: Personas on the Nielsen Norman Group Site