Readings

Week		Topic	Readings
Week 1 01/06/20	Mon, 01/06	Introduction	For Apple CEO John Sculley's EDUCOM Keynote (1987). The Knowledge Navigator (Video). Apple. Optional Meyers, Brad (1996). A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology. ACM Interactions. Viki, Tendayi (2017). As Xerox PARC Turns 47, The Lesson Learned Is That Business Models Matter. Forbes. Timeline of HCI.
01/08/20	Wed, 01/08	Possibilities and Limits	Winner, Langdon (1980). Do Artifacts Have Politics?. Daedalus. Morozov, Evgeny (2013). We are abandoning all the checks and balances. The Guardian. Optional Jenkins, Holman W. Jr. (Dec, 2019). Pilots not the plane keep the Boeing MAX grounded. The Wall Street Journal. Note: NU students get a free Wall Street Journal membership. https://wsj.com/northwestern
Week 2 01/13/20	Mon, 01/13	Analyzing the Problem Space	Contextual Inquiries. Interaction Design Foundation. Dell, Nicola Qualitative Interviews.
01/15/20	Wed, 01/15	Intro to HTML and CSS	HTML5 Reference + Semantic Tags. Lynda.com. For your reference CSS3 Reference. Lynda.com. For your reference
Week 3 01/20/20	Mon, 01/20	MLK Day
01/22/20	Wed, 01/22	Intro to JavaScript	Intro to the DOM. Safari Books. For your reference JavaScript ES6 Introduction. Safari Books. For your reference JavaScript Functions. Safari Books. For your reference
Week 4 01/27/20	Mon, 01/27	JavaScript with ES6
01/29/20	Wed, 01/29	Scenarios, Personas, and Features	Goodwin, Kim Perfecting your personas. cooper.com. Engaging Personas. Interaction Design Foundation. For your reference Rosson, M.B. and Carroll, J.M. (2002). Scenario-Based Design. The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications.
Week 5 02/03/20	Mon, 02/03	Norman's Design Principles	Norman, Don (1988). The Design of Everyday Things, Chapter 1.
02/05/20	Wed, 02/05	Low-Fidelity Prototyping	Nielsen Norman Group Paper Prototyping. Babich, Nick (2018). The Magic of Paper Prototyping.
Week 6 02/10/20	Mon, 02/10	JavaScript & REST
02/12/20	Wed, 02/12	Norman Design Principles + JavaScript Continued	Norman, Don (1988). The Design of Everyday Things, Chapter 2.
Week 7 02/17/20	Mon, 02/17	Visual Design Part 1	Williams, Robin (2015). The Non-Designer's Design Book, Chapter 1. Williams, Robin (2015). The Non-Designer's Design Book, Chapter 2.
02/19/20	Wed, 02/19	Evaluation	Nielsen/Norman Group (1994). How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation. Nielsen/Norman Group (1994). 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design. Krug, Steve Don't Make Me Think, Chapter 9.
Week 8 02/24/20	Mon, 02/24	Visual Design Part 2	Williams, Robin (2015). The Non-Designer's Design Book, Chapter 1. Williams, Robin (2015). The Non-Designer's Design Book, Chapter 2.
02/26/20	Wed, 02/26	Inclusive Web Design	Ladner, Richard E. Design for User Empowerment.
Week 9 03/02/20	Mon, 03/02	Form Design	Wroblewski, Luke Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks, Chapters 1, 3.
03/04/20	Wed, 03/04	Ethics
Week 10 03/09/20	Mon, 03/09	The Future of HCI	Richard Harper, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers and Abigail Sellen (Eds. Microsoft Research) (2008). Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020.
03/11/20	Wed, 03/11	Course Synthesis

CS 330: Intro to HCI

CS 330: Intro to HCI

Readings

Optional

Optional