Who should attend?

This course is for working professionals who want to do interaction design, information architecture or usability evaluation. This course is for you if you are:

• A software professional with experience in user interface design, but no formal training
• A quality professional in the IT industry, who would like to learn about usability
• A design professional with experience in another design field and now want to move to interaction design
• A product manager responsible for the delivery of software products
• An account executive responsible for client interaction in the IT industry.

Goals

• To give practice in process and techniques for user studies, interaction design and usability evaluation
• To provide an exposure to issues, principles and concerns underlying human interaction with interactive products

After attending the course, participants should be able to undertake design of interactive products. Those who are already involved in interaction design should be able to improve quality and usability of the products they develop, and will understand the theory behind what they do. Those responsible for the software development process will be able to make the process in their organizations more user-centered.

For contents, fees and schedule, scroll down. To see a list of past participants, click here. While there are many guest lectures planned, a large part of the course will be conducted by Prof. Anirudha Joshi. The names of other speakers will be announced later.

To attend, send an email to anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in.

Contents

		Day I - User Studies Users first. We start with understanding user needs by learning the technique of contextual interview (CI). We also spend some time to initiate and understand the project we will be doing.

		Day III, IV - Consolidation and Product definition We learn to consolidate findings across users by techniques such as affinity diagrams and personas. Groups finish off about five interviews each, analyze them and document the requirements in the form of a product definition. We end Day IV with our first round of group presentations.

Day VI, VII, VIII - Design Now the fun begins - we get into design. We start with understanding the different layers of user experience of an interactive product, followed by relevant concepts in cognitive psychology, the design process, goals and heuristics, applying what we learn in projects. By end of Day VIII, we should have designed our first cut prototypes and detailed them to the extent possible.

Day IX and X - Evaluation and Integration with SE On day IX and X we try our hand at some usability evaluation techniques. We then look at ways of integrating the HCI design process in software engineering processes. We wrap up the project with a presentation by each group and carry home our lessons learnt.

Guest Lectures / Case Studies / Activities
We end each day with a guest lecture, a case study or an activity. Guest lecture topics are still being decided, but could be on-screen typography, information visualization, animation in interactive products, patterns in interaction design, information architecture, emotional design, accessibility, plus a few case studies.

Course contents are tentative as of now. They will be fine-tuned in due course.

Fees

Fees include participant material, lunch and refreshments during the course. Accommodation is not included, , but is available to limited number of people in the IIT Bombay guesthouse.
Updated September 12, 2006: Sorry, but our guest house is full now (though course registrations are still open. We may be able to accomodate you if there are cancellations in the guesthouse. Else, we can help you locate a hotel room.
Updated October 1, 2006: The course registration is now closed.

To participate, please send a cheque / demand draft in favor of "Registrar IIT Bombay, CEP account" to: Anirudha Joshi, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400 076. Please note that TDS need not be deducted towards payments made to IIT Bombay. If you require guest house accommodation, do mention this along with the registration. If you need more information please contact anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in.

Schedule

The contents and the schedule are tentative and subject to change.

 
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