Videos & Material

course videos and material for COMP 441

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Course videos and material will be added to this page during the semester.

This material will be updated on a weekly basis.

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Course videos will be updated during the semester.

Week 14 - 15th April 2020

• N/A - Final Presentations

Week 14 - 15th April 2020

• extras - designing a common interaction framework
  • Complex relationship between data and design in UX
• extras - designing the information architecture
  • The Chicago 00 Project
• extras - testing and evaluating usability
  • Create Better Website: Introducing Content Experiments
  • Microsoft Usability Testing
  • Microsoft User Research
  • mobile analytics
    • Event tracking
    • Screen tracking
  • Touring SOE’s Usability Lab

Week 13 - 8th April 2020

• extras - interaction style
  • Macintosh UI
  • Microsoft Hololens 2
  • Xerox Star
• extras - principles for usability
  • Adobe Photoshop - Contextual Menu
  • Google - Material Design

Week 12 - 1st April 2020

• extras - design guides
  • Paper Prototyping
  • Digital Prototyping
  • Native Prototyping
• extras - users and skills
  • The British Museum - Deciphering the world’s oldest rule book
  • The British Museum - The Royal Game of Ur
  • Nintendo’s Brain Age: Concentration Training
  • TED-Ed - How to practice effectively…
  • TED-Ed - How to read music
  • Touch screens at Lincoln Park Zoo
  • Your First Script - Apps Script Tutorials

Week 11 - 25th March 2020

• N/A - DEV Week Presentations
• n.b. class video link on Slack

Week 10 - 18th March 2020

• extras - gestalt laws of perceptions
  • Gestalt Laws
• extras - usability
  • Being left-handed in a right-handed world…

Week 9 - 11th March 2020

• extras - games and simulations
  • Bryan Alexander - Preparing Teachers and Students to Succeed in an Open-Ended Future
    • gaming section - starts at 2:50 and lasts for ~35 seconds
    • example game usage - starts at ~4:37 until ~6:20
• extras - gestalt laws of perception
  • Gestalt Laws
• extras - processing visual information
  • Eyetracking advert - Google Chrome Japan

Week 8 - 4th March 2020

• N/A - Spring Break

Week 7 - 26th February 2020

• extras - cognitive load
  • Mouse Pointers & Fitts’s Law - Computerphile - up to 7:27
  • Peter Doolittle: How your “working memory” makes sense of the world
• extras - games, incentives, simulations
  • Gamification - Extra Credits - up to 3:57
  • Geniverse - Explore heredity and genetics by breeding and studying virtual dragons

Week 6 - 19th February 2020

• extras - cognitive load
  • Filter photographs based on metadata
• extras - design for memory
  • TED: How the progress bar keeps you sane
• extras - human memory
  • Ten Second Tom

Week 5 - 12th February 2020

• N/A - Mockup Presentations

Week 4 - 5th February 2020

• extras - human memory
  • Sherlock Holmes’ Mind Palace trick
  • TED-Ed - How memories form and how we lose them
  • Why the brain can’t multitask
• extras - users and mental models
  • Meet Super Mario Run
  • Planning a site design
  • TED: How the hyperlink changed everything

Week 3 - 29th January 2020

• extras - users and interaction
  • Filter photographs based on metadata
  • NES Game: Super Mario Bros. (1985 Nintendo)
  • Super Mario Bros. Speed Run
  • TED: Genius of the London Tube Map
  • What is digital accessibility?
• extras - vision
  • Brain Games - Peripheral Vision and Motion
  • Samsung One UI 2: Designed for everyday simplicity

Week 2 - 22d January 2020

• extras - design inspiration
  • Milton Glaser Intro - up to 5:59
• extras - vision
  • Grey Square Optical Illusion
  • No Such Thing as Color - what it’s like to be color blind - up to 6:27
  • Scotoma - The Da Vinci Code
  • TedEd - How we see color

Week 1 - 15th January 2020

• extras - design guidelines
  • Google’s Material Design