Monsoon Courses on HCI

IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay offers a course on human-computer interaction design for working professionals. Called "the Monsoon Course on HCI", it is usually conducted twice every year, once in an in-person-continuous mode, and the other time in a self-paced-remote-weekend mode. The in-person course has been traditionally conducted in the last week of May from Wednesday to Wednesday to Wednesday (i.e. for 15 days). The course is offered in a self-paced-remote-weekend mode. In this mode, the course will be conducted on 12 weekends, usually between October and March. In this mode, the first 11 weeks are remote (online), while the last weekend is in-person in the IIT Bombay campus.

Please fill out this pre-registration form to hear about the course when it is announced.

Recent courses

May 31 to June 14, 2023, in-person, continuous
December 2, 2023 to March 24, 2024, online, weekends

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Contents

FAQs…

Who should attend?

This course is for you if you are:

An interaction designer, a user interface designer or a user experience designer with little formal exposure to design
A design professional from another design discipline who wants to move to interaction design
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 product manager responsible for the delivery of software products
A faculty member in a design school or an engineering college who would like to teach a course on topics such as human-computer interaction, user studies, interaction design or design evaluation.

HCI stands for human-computer interaction. The Monsoon Course on HCI has two goals. Firstly, it gives participants an exposure to issues, theories, principles and concerns relating to human interaction with interactive products. Secondly, it provides participants hands-on practice with the process and the techniques related to user studies, interaction design and design evaluation. After attending the course, participants should be able to conceptualise, design and evaluate interactive products. Those who are already involved in these activities should be able to improve the quality of their work, and should understand the theory behind what they do. Those responsible for the process should be able to make the process in their organizations more user-centered. For more details about the course, please see the FAQs.

Contents and Schedule

Here are the currently planned contents. More contents might be added closer to the date.

Date	Morning	Afternoon
Wednesday 1	Introduction and startup Contextual interviews	Practice a contextual interview Analysis and tips Plan and conduct interview 1
Thursday	Work models Interpreting interviews	Interpret interview 1 Share Conduct interview 2
Friday	Consolidation using affinity Other user studies methods Case studies, learning from the field	Interpret interview 2 Conduct interview 3
Saturday	Conduct and interpret interviews
Sunday	Conduct and interpret interviews (optional)	Begin the affinity
Monday	Layers of user experience Conceptual models User models	Finish the affinity Presentation 1: Findings from user studies
Tuesday	User experience goals Personas	Interaction design scenarios Build personas and scenarios
Wednesday 2	Patterns, guidelines and standards Heuristics and principles of human-computer interaction	Build personas and scenarios Interaction design case studies
Thursday	Detail out the interfaces	Prototype the design Build a presentation of the design
Friday	Design evaluation	Presentation 2: Personas, scenarios, interfaces Plan evaluations
Saturday	Plan and do evaluations
Sunday	Do evaluations (optional)
Monday	Design process Integrating HCI with software engineering Institutionalising HCI - the challenges in India	Do evaluations
Tuesday	Integrating HCI methods in your work User experience metrics	Redesign
Wednesday 3	Presentation 3: Findings from evaluations, final design	Feedback, Lessons learnt, Wrap up