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INTERACTION DESIGN: DESIGN METHODOLOGY SEMINAR

Spring 2019 

Instructor: Dr Joëlle Bitton
joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch 

Teaching Assistant: Martin Dusek
martin.dusek@zhdk.ch

Office hours by appointment 

Class sessions include a lecture/discussion each Monday from 10.30-12.30 in 4.K14, or other date/room if noted in the schedule below. Starting in week 3 and continuing for the rest of the semester, two students will give presentations every week. 
 

OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES 

This course proposes to investigate the methods of interaction design and the challenges they pose, with a particular focus on human-centred design. With notions of cultural contexts, historical overviews, and case studies, we’ll discuss the foundations of interaction design methods and their evolution. During the overlap with the Interaction Design process course, some of these concepts will be put into practice. 
 

COURSE OUTLINE 

From the third week, each course will be structured around two student presentations of fifteen minutes each and class discussions, with occasionally an additional lecture from the instructor or guest lecturer.
 

EXPECTATIONS AND GRADING

Grades will be based on the oral and written presentations and on class participation. Contributing to constructive group feedback is an essential aspect of class participation. Regular attendance is required. Two or more unexcused absences will affect the final grade. Arriving late on more than one occasion will also affect the grade.

Oral presentations 30% 

Final essay 30%

Class participation 20% 

Journal/Blog 20%

Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade. 
 

ASSIGNMENTS 

  • Oral presentations

Students must independently prepare lectures on selected texts from the week. These can be presented in different formats.
Possible presentation formats are:

  • Live sketching
  • Demo with prototyping
  • Classic Slides presentation
  • etc.

The presentation should include a 2-pages written discussion, sent to the instructor by the Wednesday 14.00, in the week prior to the class to get enough time for feedback and possible changes, and then made available to the class the Friday 14.00 prior to insure a general discussion.

The paper should include title, author, date, context, summary, bibliography.

Additional sources can be added to inform the discussion if necessary.

  • Final Essay

The essay is a final 1500-words essay with a diversity of sources and bibliography (classified by genre: book, book chapter, journal article, conference article, academic thesis, newspaper article, web article, etc). 

The topic of the essay is chosen by the student and proposed by Week 8 in the form of a short paragraph (100 words) explaining the topic and the questions at stake. I will inform the student if the topic is accepted in that week. The final essay has to be submitted by Week 12.

The paper should be written in English if possible.

  • Journal/Blog

A separate 'Journal' is developed by each student that reflects on learnings from the seminar. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):

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INTERACTION DESIGN: DESIGN METHODOLOGY SEMINAR

Spring 2019 

Instructor: Dr Joëlle Bitton
joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch 

Teaching Assistant: Martin Dusek
martin.dusek@zhdk.ch

Office hours by appointment 

Class sessions include a lecture/discussion each Monday from 10.30-12.30 in 4.K14, or other date/room if noted in the schedule below. Starting in week 3 and continuing for the rest of the semester, two students will give presentations every week. 
 

OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES 

This course proposes to investigate the methods of interaction design and the challenges they pose, with a particular focus on human-centred design. With notions of cultural contexts, historical overviews, and case studies, we’ll discuss the foundations of interaction design methods and their evolution. During the overlap with the Interaction Design process course, some of these concepts will be put into practice. 
 

COURSE OUTLINE 

From the third week, each course will be structured around two student presentations of fifteen minutes each and class discussions, with occasionally an additional lecture from the instructor or guest lecturer.
 

EXPECTATIONS AND GRADING

Grades will be based on the oral and written presentations and on class participation. Contributing to constructive group feedback is an essential aspect of class participation. Regular attendance is required. Two or more unexcused absences will affect the final grade. Arriving late on more than one occasion will also affect the grade.

Oral presentations 30% 

Final essay 30%

Class participation 20% 

Journal/Blog 20%

Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade. 
 

ASSIGNMENTS 

  • Oral presentations

Students must independently prepare lectures on selected texts from the week. These can be presented in different formats.
Possible presentation formats are:

  • Live sketching
  • Demo with prototyping
  • Classic Slides presentation
  • etc.

The presentation should include a 2-pages written discussion, sent to the instructor by the Wednesday 14.00, in the week prior to the class to get enough time for feedback and possible changes, and then made available to the class the Friday 14.00 prior to insure a general discussion.

The paper should include title, author, date, context, summary, bibliography.

Additional sources can be added to inform the discussion if necessary.

The students presenting should engage the class in a discussion with questions and/or with active participation in an exercise.

  • Final Essay

The essay is a final 1500-words essay with a diversity of sources and bibliography (classified by genre: book, book chapter, journal article, conference article, academic thesis, newspaper article, web article, etc). 

The topic of the essay is chosen by the student and proposed by Week 8 in the form of a short paragraph (100 words) explaining the topic and the questions at stake. I will inform the student if the topic is accepted in that week. The final essay has to be submitted by Week 12.

The paper should be written in English if possible.

  • Journal/Blog

A separate 'Journal' is developed by each student that reflects on learnings from the seminar. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):

  • The journal should be structured in a generally comprehensible manner
  • The lecture notes, including annotations, are stored
  • Notes, sketches for each lesson should be included as well
     
  • Readings

Readings are mandatory every week. Additional readings are provided for reference, and if you have time to read through (although it's expected that you at least check quickly the paper).
Students are expected to discuss and comment in class based on the readings they have done prior to the class.
A reading guideline is provided to support the reading process.
Texts vary in length every week, this is considered part of the learning process in this class to go through a reading and gather essential ideas in a limited time.

COURSE MATERIALS 

Readings are made available in the shared IAD server.

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Kolko, J. (2011). Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis (Oxford Series in Human­Technology Interaction) (1 ed.). Oxford University Press, USA.

Additional readings:

Dreyfuss, H. S. The designer’s role (sketch).

Kolko, J. (2007). Thoughts on Interaction Design. Brown Bear LLC. (Chapter 3) 


Week 3 - 11.03.2019 Design in the everyday context

Design takes place everyday, is inspired by popular culture and in turn is inspiring stories and the collective imagination. Overview of design for various contexts.

Presentations:

  • Paméla Schmidinger
  • Sophie Anderhub

Readings: 

Bell, Genevieve, Blythe, M. & Sengers, P. 2005. “Making by Making Strange: Defamiliarization and the Design of Domestic Technologies”. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 12. 149-173.

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Shedroff, N. 2012. Make it So. Rosenfeld Media. 

Additional readings:

Dourish, P. & Bell , G. 2011. Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing. Cambridge: MIT Press. 

Kakalios, James. 2005. The Physics of Superheroes. The Gotham Books Publishing Group. 


Week 4 - 18.03.2019 Human-Computer Interaction and methods

Interaction Design and the field of HCI research are intertwined. Desk-based research, cultural probes, participatory design, ethnographic video, etc… terms that are at the heart of methodologies.

Presentations:

  • Andreas Fürer
  • Tim Fuchs

Readings:

Buur, J., Fraser, E., Oinonen, S., & Rolfstam, M. 2010. “Ethnographic video as design specs”. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Australia’ 10.

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At the heart of the design is the human experience: how to keep track of it?

Presentations:

  • Tamara Trabucco
  • Yao Liu

Readings

boyd, danah. 2007. “Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.” In MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning – Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Volume (ed. David Buckingham). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

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Merholz, P., Wilkens, T., Schauer, B., & Verba, D. (2008). Subject To Change:
Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (Chapter 1 + 5) 

Additional Readings

Buchenau, M. & Fulton Suri, J. 2000. “Experience Prototyping”. In Proceeding of DIS ’00.

Holmquist, L. E. 2005. Prototyping: Generating Ideas or Cargo Cult Designs? In Interactions. March-April 2005. 

Week 6 - 08.04.19 The question of the prototype

The prototype is the actuation of an idea, its evaluation, its dissemination, its validation all at once? Where does the prototype stop?

Presentations:

  • Shafira Nugroho
  • Sonjoi Nielsen

Readings

Montgomery, Will. 2013. “Machines for Living”. In Wire. 243. 28-35.

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Youn­Kyung, L., Erik, S., & Josh, T. 2008. The anatomy of prototypes: Prototypes as filters, prototypes as manifestations of design ideas. In ACM Trans. Comput.­Hum.Interact. 15(2). 1–27. 

Additional Readings

Ehn, P., & Kyng, M. 1991. Cardboard computers: Mocking-­it-­up or hands­-on the future. In Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems. 169–195. 

Bolchini, D., Pulido, D., & Faiola, A. 2009. “ “Paper in screen” prototyping: an agile technique to anticipate the mobile experience”. In Interactions. 16(4). 29–33. 


Week 7 - 15.04.2019 Evaluation by narration

Why do we document, why do we practice pitching, selling ideas? How do we share and disseminate a design? 

Presentations:

  • Andreas Bütler
  • Roman Engler

Exercise: Storytelling

Readings

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Loch, Christopher. 2003. Moving Your Idea Through Your Organisation. In Laurel, Brenda (ed.). Design Research. Methods and Perspectives. 


Additional Readings

Brown, D. M. (2010). “Competitive Reviews” In Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning. 254­-263. Berkeley: New Riders. 

Nelson, Ted. 1974. Computer Lib. Dream Machine. Seven Dollars.

Quesenberry, W. & Brooks, K. 2010. “Why Stories?”. In Storytelling for User experience. Rosenfeld Media. 


Week 8 - 29.04.2019 Re: Evaluation

What does it mean to evaluate a work, what are the tools, how is a project fitting its intentions? Is evaluation even necessary in the context of design?

Presentations:Lecture

Readings

Bardzell, J., Bolter, J., & Löwgren, J. 2010. “Interaction criticism: three readings of an interaction design, and what they get us”. In Interactions. 17:2. 32–37. 

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Diagrams, sketching, mind mapping, working with data, visualising information: this is the work of explaining to your audience, from clients, to customers, to collaborators, the essence of an argument.

Presentations:

  • Damaris Büchner 
  • Fabian Frey

Exercise: Diagrams


Readings

Buxton, B. 2007. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Morgan Kaufmann. 76-81.

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Pavliscak, Pamela. 2015. Data-Informed Product Design. O’Reilly. 

Additional Readings

Rogers, Y., Sharp, H. & Preece, J. 2002. “Identifying Needs and establishing Requirements”. In Interaction Design: Beyond Human­ Computer Interaction. John Wiley & Sons. 201-­211. 


Week 10 - 13.05.2019 Innovation for all

The history and practice of design is following that of technology, how do they correlate in notions of innovation and creativity?

Presentations:

  • Zoë Urand
  • Andy Kirk

Readings

Blanchette, Jean-François. 2011. “A Material History of Bits”. In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62:6. 1042-1057. 

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Seago, Alex & Dunne, Anthony. 1999. New Methodologies in Art and Design Research: The Object as Discourse. In Design Issues. 15:2. Summer 1999. 

Additional Readings

Kelley, T. (2001). The Art Of Innovation: Lessons In Creativity From IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm. Crown Business. 53­-66. 

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: Lessons In Creativity From IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm. Crown Business. 53­-66. 


Week 11 - 20.05.2019 Speculative design, design, art

Where design and art collide: what is your design standing for? 

Presentations:

  • Danuka Ana Tomas
  • Yangzom Sharley

Readings

Auger, James. 2012. “Speculative design: The products that technology could become”. In Why Robot? Speculative Design, the domestication of technology and the considered future. PhD Thesis. RCA, London. 

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Campbell, Jim. 2000. “Delusions of Dialogue: Control and Choice in Interactive Art”. In Leonardo. 33:2. 133-136.

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Tsaknaki, Vasiliki & Fernaeus, Y. 2016. “Expanding on Wabi-Sabi as a Design Resource in HCI”. In Proceedings of CHI ‘16. 


Week 12 03.06.2019 Teach (room change: 4K11)

For our final class, we go back to the basics of design: its pedagogy. Interaction Design is though here as a mediation for everyday life: how can you as students use your knowledge to develop your craft and to share your lessons learned.

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***Assignment: Submit your Final paper*** Deadline update: 03.06.2019.


Readings

Ackermann, Edith K. 2016. “Learning to Code: What is it? What’s In It For The Kids?— A Tribute to Seymour Papert". Trans. version from publication in Tecnologie didattiche (TD 27-2002).

Moriwaki, Katherine & Brucker-Cohen, J. 2006. “Lessons from the scrapyard: creative uses of found materials within a workshop setting”. In AI & Society. 20:4. 506-525. 


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