Course Overview

Project 1 - Web Site Re-Design

Due beginning of Week 4

Objectives

Systems thinking (macro vs. micro, interconnectedness, modular design, similarities vs. differences)
Research
Begin to think about usability
User control
- What can users do, what is the response?
- How does this tranlate into code?
  - if… then… else…
GET TO KNOW YOUR OBJECTIVES

Assignments

Readings

Project 2 - "Real" Interface

Due beginning of week 7

Objectives

Learn how to test usability (UX)
Design for contraints of device
Begin to prototype

Assignments

Readings

Project 3 - Designing for Play

Due end of week 10 or during finals week

Objectives

Adopting
- Flow
- Magic Circle
- Interactivity vs. Choice
- Emergent Play

Readings

Design for Emotion and Flow
Mario Bros. Level Design
Rules of Play
- Chapter 12 (Rules on Three Levels)
  - The Kinds of Rules (Operational, Constitutive, Implicit)
  - Designing Elegant Rules
- Chapter 6 (Interactivity)
  - Interaction and Choice
  - Anatomy of a Choice
  - Space of Possibilities

Mini Presentations

State of Flow Magic Circle