Course Overview
Design process and methodology for designing solutions for interactive products, services and events: Design of integrated systems, products for future use, products to be used in groups, devices used in public places, design of tangible, gestural and expressive interfaces, products that enrich user experience • The course takes an inter-disciplinary approach drawing upon product design, visual communication, information architecture, cognitive psychology and computer science. The course involves exploration of alternative, pushing the envelope of what is known. • The focus is on working collaboratively in groups to solve design problems. The course will involve doing projects. Students need to build soft prototypes of proposed systems at the end of the course. • The course involves learning to critically analyze thoughts and conduct independent Research, to be able to work in teams and collaborate to solve problems, to build confidence in being creative and innovative and be able to think critically. • The course also introduces best practice of documentation and presentation – both oral and written.
| Total Credits | 6.0 |
| Type | Theory |
| Lecture | 2.0 |
| Tutorial | 2.0 |
| Half Semester | N |
| Text Reference | 302225 De Bono, Edward; Lateral Thinking, A Textbook of Creativity; Penguin Books (2009)302225 Laurel, Brenda; Computer as Theatre; Addison-Wesley Pub CO (2013)302225 Mayhew, Deborah J; The Usability Engineering Lifecycle : A Practitioner302222s Handbook for user Interface Design; Morgan Kaufmann (1999)302225 Norman, Donald A; Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is so Complex and Information Appliances Are the Solution; MIT Press (1999)302225 Raskin, Jef; The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems302222 Pearson Education (2000)302225 Rosenfeld, Louis: Morville, Peter; Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites; O302222Reilly & Associate; 2nd edition (27 Nov, 2006)302225 Tufte, Edward; Envisioning Information; Graphics Press (2003)302225 Myerson, Jeremy; IDEO: Masters of Innovation, Publisher : teNeues Publishing Company,29 May, 2001302225 Fay Sweet, Frog: Form Follows Emotion, Cutting Edge,10 May, 1999. |
About Instructor
Prof. B.A. Ravi Poovaiah
