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Agenda for Day 19
- Announcements
- Assignments
- Draft Concrete Use Case and Storyboard due today
- Conceptual Design and Portfolio due Wednesday
- Persona for primary user, environment, tasks
- Sketch(es) of main screen
- 3 Concrete Use Cases
- 3 Storyboards
- Place in complete Portfolio Binder
- Include Time Log for Conceptual Design Phase
- Program 4 due Thursday
- Readings
- For today, read Chapters 10 & 11 of textbook
- For next lecture/discussion, read Chapters 12 & 13 of textbook
- Today's Activities
- Peer Review Concrete Use Cases and Storyboards (20 minutes)
- Lecture/Discussion on Chapters 10 & 11 (10 minutes)
- History of HCI Video: The Desktop Metaphor from 1982 (10 minutes)
- Lecture topics and learning objectives: Interaction Design and Styles
After today's class, you should be able to- Explain how metaphors are used in user interface design
- Examples of several popular user interface metaphors
- List five interaction styles popular with user interfaces
- References
- PowerPoint Slides for Chapters 10 and 11 [as *.ppt]
- Eight PowerPoint slides to accompany the discussion of Chapters 10 and 11 of the textbook
- Joel on Software: Affordances and Metaphors
- Chapter 4: of User Interface Design for Programmers
- Xerox Star
- Brief description and screen shots of the Xerox Star operating system: a widely copied desktop metaphor
- Microsoft Bob
- Brief description and screen shots of Microsoft Bob operating system: a failed metaphor
- PowerPoint Slides for HCI History: Part 2 [as *.ppt]
- Developed by Georgia Tech HCI faculty