Catalog Course Description:
Focuses on interactive system design methods in common use covering such topics as interactive design, iterative design, usability analysis, prototyping and evaluation, mental models, conceptual models, interaction styles, the use of guidelines; normative, descriptive, and formative approaches to work analysis; modeling user's activities, defining and validating requirements, presenting interactive system designs, and the theoretical foundations underlying the design of interactive systems.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites:
INFO 608  Human-Computer Interaction

Curriculum Role:
This course is part of the concentration in Human-Computer Interaction in the MSIS degree program.  It is usually taken after several required courses have been completed.

Course Rationale:
This course gives the student a broad and detailed understanding of user-centered design. It includes a variety of design approaches throughout the interactive system development cycle. Students gain design skills from a hands-on, user-centered perspective.

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:
• Apply research literature to interactive system design
• Explain appropriate interactive system design methods
• Apply interactive system design methods throughout the interactive system development cycle
• Apply the results of user/task analysis and evaluation to inform the design
• Demonstrate the iterative relationship between design and evaluation methods in interactive system design

Course Content:
Principal topics and the approximate number of weeks devoted to each are:
• Introduction to interactive system design, user-centered design, iterative design (1)
• User and task analysis (1)
• Contextual design (1)
• Participatory design, activity theory (1)
• Scenarios and claims analysis (1)
• Prototyping (1)
• Social organization and collaboration (1)
• HCI design patterns (1)
• Design rationale (1)
• Evaluation methods (1)

Presentation:
Note: Presentation method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Teaching methods include lectures, class demonstrations, and student design projects. 

Assessment:
Note: Assessment method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Grades are based on exams, in-class discussion and exercises, and design projects.