6.831 • User Interface Design and Implementation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Fall Semester, 2006

Old Announcements

Monday, November 13th

The lecture notes for tomorrow (L16: User Testing) are now available.

Thursday, November 9th

AC15 (Undo) is the in-class activity for today's lecture.

Wednesday, November 8th

The lecture notes for tomorrow (L15: Undo) are now available.

Monday, November 6th

The lecture notes for tomorrow (L14: Heuristic Evaluation) are now available.

AC14 (Heuristic Evaluation) is the in-class activity for today's lecture.

HW2 (Heuristic Evaluation) is out.

Thursday, November 2nd

AC13 (Animation) is the in-class activity for today's lecture.

PS6 (Animation) is out.

Wednesday, November 1st

The lecture notes for tomorrow (L13: Animation) are now available.

Tuesday, October 31st

The lecture notes for today (L12: Predictive Evaluation) are now available.

AC12 (Keystroke-Level Models) is the in-class activity for today's lecture.

Thursday, October 26th

AC11 (Coordinate Transforms) is the in-class activity for today's lecture.

Wednesday, October 25th

The lecture notes for Thursday, October 26th (L11: Output 2) are now available.

Tuesday, October 24th

PS5 (Declarative UI) is out.

2006 Quiz 1 and answers are available.

Saturday, October 21st

The lecture notes for Thursday, October 19th (L9: Declarative UI) are now available.

The lecture notes for Tuesday, October 24th (L10: Graphics Design) are now available. There are also reading materials for that lecture.

Thursday, October 19th

GR4 is out.

Friday, October 13th

Photos of the Paper Prototype Testing session are now available.

Wednesday, October 11th

Example solutions for PS3 are now available.

Tuesday, October 10th

Quizzes from previous years are now available:

Friday, October 6th

PS4 is now available.

Wednesday, October 4th

The lecture notes for Thursday, October 4th (L8: Input) are now available. There are also reading materials for that lecture.

AC8 - In-class activity (Input) is available.

Tuesday, October 3rd

GR3 is out.

Monday, October 2nd

The lecture notes for Tuesday, October 3rd (L7: Prototyping) are now available. There are also reading materials for that lecture.

GR 1 & 2 Feedback Sessions signup sheet is now available.

Thursday, September 28th

AC6 - In-class activity (Output) is available.

PS3 is now available.

Wednesday, September 27th

The lecture notes for Thursday, September 28th (L6: Output) are now available. There are also reading materials for that lecture.

Tuesday, September 26th

GR2 is out.

Saturday, September 23rd

The lecture notes for Tuesday, September 26th (L5: Design Principles) are now available. There are also reading materials for that lecture.

Thursday, September 21st

PS2 is now available.

Wednesday, September 20th

The lecture notes for Thursday, September 21st (L4: UI Software Architecture) are now available. There are also reading materials for that lecture.

Tuesday, September 19th

The in-class exercise today is done using the Fitts' Law workbench.

The course wiki is now ready.

GR1 is out.

Saturday, September 16th

The lecture notes for Tuesday, September 19th (L3: Human Capabilities) are now available. There are also reading materials for that lecture.

Thursday, September 14th

PS1 is now available.

Saturday, September 9th

The lecture notes for Thursday, September 14th (L2: User-Centered Design) are now available. There are also reading materials for that lecture.

Thursday, September 7th

Welcome to 6.831.

The lecture notes for today (L1: Usability) are available. In the future, lecture notes will be released the day before class (if not earlier), and you will be expected to have read them before class. Lectures will also have reading assignments, which you will be expected to read as well. The readings for next Thursday's lecture are:

GR0 and HW1 have also been released.