week 5 : 8 february
Audience Issues

Tonight's Schedule

• Standards - quick review
• Discussion Leaders
• Teams - discuss readings; knowledge sharing
• Lecture: Personas
  • Sample Personas, from a personal portfolio
  • Sample Personas, RedHat
• Team Time - report out to class at large at 9.25
• Workshop Schedule:
  • Photoshop to start next week (Wed - 6-9 pm - Room 304)
  • Who is interested in Flash? Sat 5 March
• Request from Jessica Albano:

  Do you have two or three students that might be interested in completing a survey about a digital art database that the library might purchase? We actually need them to test the survey itself to see if the questions make sense, etc. Please send her a note if you can help!

Notes

• Powerpoint Slides -- a PDF handout, all links are either on this page or the online resources page
  
  

Assignments

• Readings and Questions (please respond to questions and post to personal blog by 6pm on Monday 14 Feb)
  • Mid-Quarter Course Evaluation -- please complete by 6 pm Monday. Thank you!
    
    
  • Question:
    Find an online design example (good or bad) of three Gestalt Principles. Be sure to provide hyperlinks to the source and explain why you believe it is a good example
    
    
  • Readings (non-linked readings are in eReserve):
    1. Gestalt Principles of Perception and Gestalt theory in visual screen design: a new look at an old subject
       
       If you are interested in more reading or you would like more information about a specific principle, see Gestalt Theory and Photographic Composition; page 2, closure ; page 3, proximity ; page 4, figure ground ; page 5, isomorphic correspondence; and Design Notes: Gestalt
       
       
    2. Discussion Group (ginnyw, lchiac, mdg99 - CORRECTED 8 Feb 05):
       Two essays from Don Norman based on concepts from The Psychology of Everyday Things. Affordance, Convention and Design and Affordances and Design ; HCI Design
       How do these HCI design principles relate to Gestalt Theory?
       
       
• Related Resources
  • The Origin of Personas - A. Cooper
  • Personas: Practice and Theory (MSFT, PDF)
  • Perfecting Your Personas - Kim Goodwin
  • Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites
  • Extending a Technique: Group Personas
  • TheyRule.net
  • Also see resources page