DES 420. Professional Practice Project I

 

week1

Class Intro & Logistics
EVL history, research and overview

Example Presentations


Brief Intro on Mobile Platforms and Dev. Tools

Brief History of Mobile Sensors

 

 

 

Assignment 1

Concept Research & Analysis

 

Basic Outline of the Concep Presentation

 

Week 1.pdf

 

Sensors.pdf

 

UIC's Barack Obama Foundation proposal

 


The iPhone's Untapped Potential By Kate Greene
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/408152/the-iphones-untapped-potential/

Nasa Visualization Explorer

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasaviz/

 

Ge Wang Smule’s founder
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/smule.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

Stephen Malinowski's music-animation-machine version of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tkp6eeh40

 

Ocarina by Smule
http://www.smule.com/ocarina/#prettyPhoto


How a Smartphone Knows Up from Down (accelerometer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KZVgKu6v808

 

Apple iPhone 4 Gyroscope demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQQuQL5nOEU

 

How To Check An Iphone 4 For Signs Of Water Damage by iMore.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW8o0PP53Lc



 

 

 

 

week2      

Labor Day

 

 

Assignment 1 continued

week3

UI and UX Design

Storyboards

Lab

 

Week3.pdf

 


Assignment 2

Storyboard

 

 

 

Mobile usability tips from Jakob Nielsen by Graham Charlton
http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/7339-mobile-usability-tips-from-jakob-nielsen

 

Swiss Mountain Map by Edward Tufte
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003vq

 

Stephen Malinowski's music-animation-machine version of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tkp6eeh40

 

Interview with Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/sir-jonathan-ive-the-iman-cometh-7562170.html

 

Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift by Jakob Nielsen
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-sites-vs-apps-strategy-shift/

 

Jacob Nielsen / interview
http:/blog.v7n.com/2006/02/27/jakob-nielsen-on-seo/

 

Excerpt from Designing the iPhone User Experience: A User-Centered Approach to Sketching and Prototyping iPhone Apps by Addison-Wesley
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/111949/Excerpt-from-Designing-the-iPhone-User-Experience

 

8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces by Dmitry Fadeyev
http://www.usabilitypost.com/2009/04/15/8-characteristics-of-successful-user-interfaces/

 

20 Examples of Web and Mobile Wireframe Sketches by Oleg Mokhov
http://speckyboy.com/2011/05/29/20-effective-examples-of-web-and-mobile-wireframe-sketches/

 

Mock-up examples
sixrevisions.com/user-interface/website-wireframing/

P3-Drinke - CS294-84: Interactive Device Design
http://husk.eecs.berkeley.edu/courses/cs294-84-fall12/index.php/P3-Drinke

 

WireframeSketcher: Mockups, Designs, and Prototypes by Steve Gibson
http://slapstart.com/2011/08/wireframesketcher/

 

Wireframe examples

Patient Monitoring Interface
http://patientmo.wordpress.com/category/wireframes/

 

 

Storyboard
Patient Monitoring Interface
http://patientmo.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/compressedandresized1.jpg


http://patientmo.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/s-f-storyboards/

 

 

 

 

week4

GUI - Icons

Presentation by Professor Philip Burton

Intro to SAGE

CAVE2 Demos

 

 

Week4.pdf

 

Assignment 3

Icon

 

 

 

iOS 7 Icon Guidelines link

 

 

Interview with Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/sir-jonathan-ive-the-iman-cometh-7562170.html

 

 

 

 

 

week5

Concent presentation by Professor Philip Burton

GUI- Buttons

Lab

 

Week5

 

Presentation Guildelines

 

Basic Outline of the Concept Presentation

 

 


Assignment 4

Concept Presentation

 

 

 

 

week6

Concept Presentations Class Critique I

Lab - Storyboard

 

 

 

 

week7

Lab - Presentation

Class review

 

 

 

 

week8

Midterm - October 13

Concept Presentations Class Critique II


 

 

 

week9

Concept Presentations Class Critique III

Guest Reviewer - Marcia Lausen

 


 


 


week10

Native, Hybrid and web apps
Quick recap of technologies – development environments and SDK
HTML refresher

 

 

Assignment 5

 

Class Presentation-HTML

 

 

Downoad free TextWrangler editor


 

HTML Essential Training with Bill Weinman

 

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

 

 

Dive into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim


Mobile: Native Apps, Web Apps, and Hybrid Apps by Raluca Budiu

 

HTML5 lead a web revolution by Gary Anthes Arlington, VA


Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native By Andre Charland

 

Cross-Platform Development Tools for Smartphone Applicationsby Ohrt, J., Turau, V.

 

 

 

 

week11

HTML extra

CSS refresher

 

 

CSS Text Properties presentation

 

Using absolute positioning from CSS Positioning Best Practices
by Bill Weinman on Lynda.com

 

http://alistapart.com/article/css-positioning-101

 

 

http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/

 

 

Assignment: CSS+HTML - main content screen

 

week12

CSS Text Properties

 

CSS Layout Presentation


 

Assignment: CSS+HTML -other screens

 

 

week13

CSS positioning
Lab

 

 

 

Assignment: CSS+HTML- other screens

 

 

 

week14

Final Project Development Lab
Class Review

 

 

Assignment: CSS+HTML - all screens

week15

Final Project Presentations - December 1