week 6 : 10 february
Audience Issues

Tonight's Schedule

• Reading Review
  • Teams meet to discuss readings and develop learning points.
  • Class re-assembles in groups of 3-4 (each group should have one member from each team - two groups will have four members because we aren't easily divisible by three). Information transfer/knowledge sharing. Develop one question to ask other class members.
  • Groups report out; discussion based upon the questions posed by each triad.
• HUB time
• Persona methodology
  We will work through the process of building a persona. You'll be working within your teams.
• Additional team time.
• Alert:
  See syllabus evaluation for updates on book review, design analysis (due dates are noted, per class discussion and e-mail distribution). Also noted is the in-class discussion scheduled for each due date.
• e-mail policy:
  See details of e-mail policy. Please consider using a subject header (such as Team) to differentiate mail where I am being cc'ed from mail which needs an immediate response.

Notes

• A few more technical notes:
  • File naming conventions such as htm v html ... no spaces! ... dash v underline ... capitalization (avoid)
  • Version control
• Glenn's link to the "free" USB wireless device (per last week)
• Persona notes
• Other articles/papers - includes the BBC article
  Directory is password protected. user = com597; pswd = dmedia
  public link to BBC article

Assignments

• Readings (please respond to questions and ePost by 6 pm on Monday)
  • Task Analysis
    After reading this article, what do you think are five primary tasks that users are trying to accomplish when they come to your web site? What sub-tasks might be associated with each? On what basis did you make that determination?
  • Information design using card sorting
    Please read this article and then develop a list of topics that you think is relevant for your team site. Bring the list to class next week in whatever format your team has agreed upon (text, html, excel, what-ever). No need to ePost on this article unless you feel so inclined - but it is imperative that you read it first. We will build an affinity diagram next week.

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