Instructor

Prof. Anirudha Joshi

Semester

Autumn ‘21

Course Difficulty

It was a 3 week module for IDC students, so it was pretty hectic for me with a lot of assignments, not particularly difficult content wise.

Time Commitment Required

Classes/presentations/sessions everyday 9-5 PM. Other than that group project work ~3 hours

Grading Policy and Statistics

Not revealed, Statistics-
AA 4
AB 10
BB 3
BC 2
CC 1
CD 1

Attendance Policy

No attendance policy

Pre-requisites

None

Evaluation Scheme

Course project - users studies (25%)
Persona (10%) - individual evaluation
Best interview (15%) - individual evaluation
Heuristics and principles (15%) - individual evaluation
Course project - design (20%) - group level evaluation
Course project - evaluation (15%) - group level evaluation

Topics Covered in the Course

User studies techniques focusing on conceptual inquiry technique which involves taking interviews, and gaining insights and further using it for design ideas. Next part involved creating personas based on the insights from affinity, heuristics and principles of HCI, followed by a course project on designing a prototype in response to the contextual problems found in user studies and to provide a solution for them.

Teaching Style

Class presentations mainly and Youtube videos followed by discussions on the same

Course Highlights

Learnt the skill of interviewing, and presenting ideas using real life examples

When to take this course?

Autumn semester, fourth year. It is not offered as elective/minor, I registered for it and took permission for retagging as IE.

Other Remarks

It is an interesting course to learn about product design, the background work involved in studying the needs of users and coming up with a solution to solve their problems.

Review By: Misari Bhanani