We have two simple items on our agenda today:
1. Review the slides you posted to Blackboard. We’ll walk through what’s strong about these examples and, if applicable, how they might be improved.
2. Slideshow: Front + Back Matter. This is the last lecture for the feasibility study and it’s packed with information that will be useful to applying the finishing touches to the report.
Today’s agenda (in 009 HBC):
1. Listen and evaluate our final tech briefing. We’ll spend 10-15 minutes hearing Andrew, Rachel, and Lexi talk about social media in the workplace and another 5 completing their evaluation form. Here are their deliverables:
2. Review the feasibility briefing requirements. This week we are wrapping up instruction on the feasibility unit. Starting next week and again after Thanksgiving Break, you’ll take turns delivering 5-7 minute briefings on the status of your feasibility studies. This is a chance for you to practice planning a presentation, designing slides, and delivering a short, effective briefing. Like the Tech Briefings, these are co-evaluated by me and the class. Here is the evaluation form:
3. Schedule briefings. Your schedule is available on Google Docs.
4. Video: “Story, Imagery, & the Art of 21st Century Presentation” by Garr Reynolds at TEDxKyoto 2012
5. Handout: Some Thoughts on Delivery
6. Slideshow: Slide Design
7. Activity (if there’s time): Use Powerpoint or Keynote to design one slide for your feasibility study using some of the principles we just discussed. Bring this to class on Thursday.
We’ve got four tasks for today:
1. Listen and evaluate first tech briefing: Simple web design (Lincoln & Mark). We’ll spend 10-15 minutes hearing from Lincoln and Mark and another 5-10 completing their evaluation form. Again, not only do these forms count toward your participation grade, they count toward the presenter’s TB grade. I’ll walk you through the form one more time before Lincoln and Mark begin.
Here is their deliverable.
2. Listen to usability lecture. Slides are here. I’ll share definitions, examples, technologies, and methods for usability or user-experience (UX) testing.
3. Review guidelines for making your own test. We’ll take a look at this handout, which is designed to help you think through the steps required for test design.
4. Analyze a usability report example. This is a very strong example of a usability report from my Fall 2011 class and should give you an idea of what I’m looking for. We’ll take a look at some of its strengths and raise questions moving forward.
For Thursday, read about usability testing in Anderson and take a look at this usability study about the iPad. Depending on what we got through today, I’ll give you some time with your team to discuss how you’d like to design your tests for next week.
Today we’ll do two things:
Before we get to those things, we’ll also take a quick look at the Meet the Team page and check in on how your networking is going.