CS 552. User Interface Design
The materials available here are intended for the use of students enrolled
in CS552 during Spring quarter, 1998.
Note that some class Web pages involve Java applets; to access them,
you will need to use a Java-enabled browser (e.g., NetScape version 3.0
or later).
Catalog description and information on prerequisites. In addition,
all students are expected to have experience writing HTML documents, and
to be familiar with cgi-bin scripts, Javascript, or Java.
Syllabus of
reading and homework assignments
Course objectives and policies
Class email archive
Take-home final exam
Hand-in form for final exam
Assignments
Assignment 1:
Deriving design guidelines
Assignment 2:
Applying color, font, and menu guidelines
Assignment 3:
Online documentation
Assignment 4:
Design of a user experiment
Assignment 5:
Icon design
Assignment 6:
Usability Engineering
Guidelines and Discussion Materials
Guidelines relating to color
Guidelines relating to menus
Guidelines relating to
documentation and error messages
Guidelines relating to icon design
Guidelines relating to user-centered
design
Guidelines derived from the
Kieras & Bovair paper (by Chisholm)
Guidelines derived from the
Brooks paper (by Schlatter)
Guidelines derived from the
Jeffries paper (by Wang)
Guidelines derived from the
Nielsen paper (by class as a whole)
"Quote of the Week"
Color
Mental and Conceptual Models
Documentation and Error Messages
Multilevel User Interfaces
Icon Design
Bibliographies
Readings on Applied Color Theory
Readings on Menus and Screen Layout
Readings on Words and Text
Readings on Conceptual Models
References suggested by Dr. Browne
Class maillist:
cs552@cs.orst.edu
Class email archive:
www.cs.orst.edu/~pancake/cs552/archive