DSGN 270 Day 1 - UX (user experience design) for developers

Today's Padlet

Housekeeping

• Reminder for Tony: Hit record!
• Assignment 1: Website Critque
  • Due: Wednesday, September 15 @ 11:59pm
  • 25% of final course mark
• Brightspace tour
• Dailies and Assignments
• Slack Docs
• Padlet

Trophy of the Day: Roster card info

Submit the following for today's Daily Submission:

• Display name
• Github account home page

1. Breakout introductions

In groups of 3 or 4 do a round-robin introduction of yourself:

• What I'd like to get out of this program.
• Cats or dogs? Other?
• Favourite [game|netflix show|child|etc].

Tony will be asking for volunteers to recall something about one of their group members so try to be memorable!

2. Usability and web conventions

1. UX for developers
2. Web conventions

3. Tooltime: Screencaps and annotation

Group discussion and demos of your favourite image annotation tool things.

Prep

UX fundamentals

• Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
• Text Scanning Patterns: Eyetracking Evidence
• Satisficing
• Information foraging

Software Setup

Complete the tasks covered during Orientation:

1. Install required software
   • Slack
   • Zoom
   • VS Code (or similar)
   • Git
   • Firefox Developer
2. Create the required (free) user accounts
   • GitHub
   • Codepen
3. Optional
   • Sign up for GitHub Classroom to get your Student Developer Pack (handy free stuff)!