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76-487 Online Information Design
Online information design focuses on the issues and practices surrounding user-centered design for on-line applications. In other words, our goals focus on helping users easily perform tasks that meet their stated goals in a web-based interface. We focus our attention on three core design issues: User studies: by studying the literature on users as well as analyzing interviews and observations of actual users, important features and content concerns emerge that can be incorporated into the finished deliverable; Information architecture: by studying the literature on site architecture as well as considering how actual users interact with the architecture of a particular site, important features and content approaches emerge (including organization, navigational design, link labeling, form and search design, and visual design) that can be incorporated into the finished deliverable; Synthesis and application: by synthesizing those two elements, and applying the lessons learned to a partial redesign of a selected site, you develop the knowledge needed (including methods of iterative design, and methods for evaluating and reporting on a design's usability) to succeed in the interdisciplinary world of information design. The course's primary focus will be on the design of text/image information typical of Web sites, though issues in on-line design for other modes, such as sound and animation, as well as Web 2.0 will be touched upon. A series of homework assignments ask students to analyze and report on user needs, information architecture, and to iteratively develop a Web site. The course includes exams and a final project. | |
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No sections available for semester Spring 2006.
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