6.831 • User Interface Design and Implementation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spring Semester, 2008

Course Calendar

Lectures (L) iCal feed preview
Assignments
  • Group project assignments (GR)
  • Individual programming problem sets (PS)
  • Individual homework (HW)
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Feb Feb 4
Registration Day
 Feb 5
first day of classes
 Feb 6
L1: Usability
HW1 (hall of fame & shame) out
GR0 (project proposal) out 		Feb 7 Feb 8
L2: User-Centered Design
2. Feb 11
L3: UI Software Architecture
HW1 due
PS1 (Swing) out 		Feb 12 Feb 13
L4: Learnability
 Feb 14 Feb 15
L5: Task Analysis
GR0 due
GR1 (task analysis) out
3. Feb 18
Presidents Day
 Feb 19
Monday schedule
L6: Output
PS1 due
PS2 (output) out 		Feb 20
lecture cancelled
 Feb 21 Feb 22
L7: Generating Designs
GR1 due
GR2 (design sketches) out
4. Feb 25
L8: Input
PS2 due
PS3 (input) out 		Feb 26 Feb 27
L9: Visibility
 Feb 28 Feb 29
L10: Prototyping
GR2 due
GR3 (paper prototype) out
Mar Mar 3
L11: Declarative UI
PS3 due
PS4 (HTML & Javascript) out
meetings for feedback on GR1 & GR2
 Mar 4
meetings for feedback on GR1 & GR2
 Mar 5
L12: User Control & Freedom

prototype building (3-5 pm, 32-D463)
 Mar 6 Mar 7
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L13: User Testing

prototype testing (3-5 pm, 26-152)
6. Mar 10
Quiz 1
 Mar 11 Mar 12
L14: Errors
 Mar 13 Mar 14
L15: Graphic Design
GR3 due
GR4 (computer prototype) out
7. Mar 17
L16: Constraints & Layout
PS4 due
PS5 (layout) out 		Mar 18 Mar 19
L17: Efficiency
 Mar 20 Mar 21
L18: Predictive Evaluation
8. Mar 24
Spring Vacation
 Mar 25
Spring Vacation
 Mar 26
Spring Vacation
 Mar 27
Spring Vacation
 Mar 28
Spring Vacation
Apr Mar 31
L19: Color Design
PS5 due
 Apr 1 Apr 2
L20: Alpha Compositing
 Apr 3 Apr 4
L21: Transforms & Clipping
10. Apr 7
L22: Heuristic Evaluation
 Apr 8 Apr 9
L23: Threads & Timers
GR4 due
HW2 (heuristic evaluation) out
 Apr 10 Apr 11
L24: Accessibility
11. Apr 14
L25: Internationalization
 Apr 15 Apr 16
L26: Animation
HW2 due
GR5 (implementation) out
 Apr 17 Apr 18
Quiz 2
12. Apr 21
Patriots Day Vacation
 Apr 22
Patriots Day Vacation
 Apr 23
L27: Experiment Design & Analysis
 Apr 24
Drop Date
 Apr 25
L28: Touch and Other Modalities
May Apr 28
L29: Ubiquitous Computing
 Apr 29 Apr 30
L30: Information Visualization and End-User Programming
 May 1 May 2
L31: Speech Recognition Interfaces
Guest lecture by Blade Kotelly, Endeca
14. May 5
lecture cancelled
 May 6 May 7
lecture cancelled
meetings to demo GR5
GR6 (user testing) out 		May 8 May 9
lecture cancelled
15. May 12
L32: Conclusion
 May 13 May 14
Demo Day
GR6 due
 May 15
Last day of classes
 May 16