readings
Reading summaries are due 8 am Monday (on your personal blog) before Tuesday's class unless otherwise noted. Reading assignments incomplete (3 Jan 06)
Groups
| Group 1: Craig, David, Meg, Sakina |
Group 2: Alex, Dian, Drew, Josh, Heather |
Group 3: Andrea, Ingrid, Jing, Jyotsna, Shanna |
Group 4: Brian, Camille, Erica, Simon |
The readings are associated with the night that they will be
discussed.
- Week 2 - 10 Jan
- Week 3 - 17 Jan
- Week 4 - 24 Jan
- Week 5 - 31 Jan
- Week 6 - 7 Feb
- Week 7 - 14 Feb
- Week 8 - 21 Feb
- Week 9 - 28 Feb
- Everyone:
"The Publishing Team," Chapter 11. Content Critical: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through High-Quality Web Content by Gerry McGovern, Rob Norton
Notes on Design Practice: Stories and Prototypes as Catalysts for Communication, Thomas Erickson [A version of this paper appeared in Scenario-Based Design: Envisioning Work and Technology in System Development. (ed. J. Carroll). New York: Wiley & Sons, 1995.]
The Interactive Thread: Exploring Methods for Multi-disciplinary Design Wendy E. Mackay
- Everyone:
Objective: Provide familiarization with Internet technologies and standards
Question: How do standards impact our ability as communicators to reach our target audiences? When (why) might we chose to deliver information that does not conform with standards?
"Internet Standards, Protocols and Languages," Electronic Commerce, 2nd edition. Focus on standards, languages (skim protocols). eReserve.
Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design, Nathan Shedroff
Notes
on Design Practice: Stories and Prototypes as Catalysts for Communication,
Thomas Erickson, User Experience Architect's Office, Apple Computer, Inc.
- Gestalt Principles of Perception and Gestalt theory in visual screen design: a new look at an old subject
- 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? - Group 1 Also Read:
The following words were published in 1999. Are they relevant to communicators today? Why/why not? What are the implications of this philosophy in how we communicate (create messages) with customers, employees, vendors, voters?- The 95 Theses - The Cluetrain Manifesto
- Internet Apocalypso, chapter 1 of The Cluetrain Manifesto
- The Hyperlinked Organization, chapter 5 of The Cluetrain Manifesto
- Blueprints for the Web: Organization for the Masses
- Hierarchy And Contrast: The Basis of Good Design
- Group 2 also read:
Cognitive Psychology & IA: From Theory to Practice,
Usability experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus,
Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization
What are the threads that unite these readings? Are there best practices that can be devised from these?
- No reading
- Aesthetic Experience and the Importance of Visual Composition in Information Design ; Web 2.0: Mistaking the Forest for the Trees? ; Give Customers Short Paths To What They Want, a Gartner Report (eReserve)
- Group 3 also reads:
- Web Page Layout: A Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site Navigation Menus.
Journal of Digital Information, Volume 4 Issue 1, Article No. 153, 2003-04-28 - Evolution of web site design patterns. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Volume 23 , Issue 4 (October 2005). eReserve
- Web Page Layout: A Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site Navigation Menus.
- Web Redesign, Chapter 6, Phase 4 : Production and QA
- Group 4 Also Reads: