Course Schedule:
Week 1- (Jan. 16, 2007) Class Cancelled - Winter Weather Alert
Primary Readings
- Course Syllabus (reviewed in class)
Week 2 - (Jan. 23, 2007) Course Overview
Primary Readings
- Class Syllabi
Deliverables
- Project Discussion
- Topics Discussion
- Preliminary Project Ideas and Assignments
- Personal Introductions
Week 3 - (Jan. 30, 2007) Ambient Findability [Top]
Primary Readings
Deliverables
- Class Discussion: What is Findability and how does it relate to IA?
Week 4 - (Feb. 6, 2007) Web Standards [Top]
Primary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing With Web
Standards
- Chapter 1: 99.9% of Website Are Obsolete
- Chapter 2: Designing and Building with Standards
- Chapter 3: The Trouble with Standards
- Chapter 4: XML Conquers the World
Deliverables
- Research Topic Presentations Selected & Finalized
- Class Discussion: What is XML?
Week 5 - (Feb. 13, 2007) Web Development [Top]
Primary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing With Web
Standards
- Chapter 5: Modern Markup
- Chapter 6: XHTML: Restructuring the Web
- Chapter 7: Tighter, Firmer Pagess Guarenteed: Structure and Meta-Structure in Strict and Hybrid Markup
- Chapter 8: XHTML by Example: A Hybrid Layout (Part I)
- Dreamweaver: the Missing Manual. Chapter 18 - Templates (free chapter from this book)
Deliverables
- Class Discussion: Examining the XHTML Layout in Chapter 8 and other sites
- Group Work: Pair programming and Project Consulting
Week 6 - (Feb. 20, 2007) Interfaces, Browsers and Browsing [Top]
Primary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing With Web Standards
- Chapter 11: Working with Browsers Part I: DOCTYPE Switching and Standards Mode
- Chapter 12: Working with Browsers Part II: Box Models, Bugs and Workarounds
- Chapter 14: Accessibility Basics
Secondary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing With Web
Standards
- Chapter 13: Working with Browsers Part III: Typography
Deliverables
- Site Design Critique Paper Due
- Class Work: Designing for Accessibility and Code Standards
- Group Work: Pair programming and Project Consulting
Week 7 - (Feb. 27, 2007) Cascading Style Sheets [Top]
Primary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing With Web
Standards
- Chapter 9: CSS Basics
- Chapter 10: A Hybrid Layout (Part II)
- Chapter 16: A CSS Redesign
- Schmitt, C. (2002).Designing CSS Web Pages: Chapters 1-7
Secondary Readings
Deliverables
- Class Work: Initial CSS design
- Class Discussion: How good are our IA tools?
Week 8 - (Mar. 6, 2007) Agile IA and IA Management [Top]
Primary Readings
- Extreme Programming Pocket Guide (pp 1-80)
- XP- The Planning Process: User Stories
- Rockley, A. (2005) Information Architecture for Content Management. ASIS&T IA Summit 2005.
- Merholz, P. (2005) Content Genres - The Hidden Workhorse of Information Architecture. ASIS&T IA Summit 2005.
- Malone, E., Leacock, M. & Wheeler, C. (2007) Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Case Study. ASIS&T IA Summit 2005.
- Byrne, T. (2005) Web Content Management Marketplace, Circa 2007. ASIS&T IA Summit 2005.
Secondary Readings
- http://semanticstudios.com/
- http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/
- http://www.parsons.edu/
- http://www.stanford.edu/group/dschool/
- http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/
- http://atlassian.com/software/confluence/
- http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/
- http://www.taskspro.com/
- http://www.jotspot.com/
- http://www.codezoo.com/
- http://www.basecamphq.com/
Deliverables
- Presentations Continue
Week 9 - (Mar. 13, 2007) Spring Break [Top]
Week 10 - (Mar. 20, 2007) Captology and Persuasive Technology [Top]
Primary Readings
- Fogg, B.J., Marshall, J., Othman, L., et. al. (2001) What
Makes A Web Site Credible? A Report on a Large Quantitative Study.
Proceedings of ACM CHI 2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems, v. 1, 61-68. New York: ACM Press.
- Stanford Guildelines for Web Credibility. (2002) Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab.
Secondary Readings
- Persuasive Technologies in Education- Stanford EDU 225X Class Website
- Fogg, B.J. (2002) Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do. Morgan-Kaufmann. Book Web Site.
- Chak, Andrew. (2003) Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Websites. New Riders.
- Chak, Andrew (2003) Getting Users to Click.
- Stanford Web Credibility Research
- Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab
Deliverables
- Presentations Begin
Week 11 - (Mar. 27, 2007) No Class - IA Summit
Week 12 - (Apr. 3, 2007) Issues in Information Architecture
Primary Readings
- Hempell, A., Chong, A. (2007) IA for rich interaction: Tools and techniques from the trenches | PowerPoint. ASIS&T IA Summit 2007.
- Hinton, A. (2007) Architectures of participation: what Communities of Practice can mean for IA | PowerPoint. ASIS&T IA Summit 2007.
- Quintarelli, E., et al. (2007) FaceTag: integrating bottom-up and top-down classification in a social tagging system | FaceTag Site | Research Paper. ASIS&T IA Summit 2007.
- Wroblewski, L. (2007) Best practices for form design | PDF Slides. ASIS&T IA Summit 2007.
- Halland, A., Halland, M. (2007) Core+Paths - A design framework for findability | Slideshow. ASIS&T IA Summit 2007.
- McMullin, J. (2007) Project touchstones: how to bridge competing viewpoints and build vision, consensus, and innovation | Slideshow. ASIS&T IA Summit 2007.
Secondary Readings
Deliverables
- Rich Information - Ray James
- Persuasive Computing & IA - Paul Aumer-Ryan
- Design Project Due
Week 13 - (Apr. 10, 2007) The (Information) Architecture of Virtual Worlds [Top]
Primary Readings
- The IA Institute's Second Life Initiative
- Hinton, A. (2007) IAI In Second Life
- Tebbutt, D. (2007) Is Second Life a brave new world?
- Mine, M., Shochet, J., Hughston, R. (2003) Building a Massively Multiplayer Game Online for the Million: Disney's Toontown Online.
Secondary Readings
- Second Life Features
- Shirky, C. (2007) Second Life, Games, and Virtual Worlds
- Jenkins, H. A Second Look at Second Life
- Shirky, C. (2007) Second Life, a Response to Henry Jenkins
- May, A. et al. (2003) Pedestrian Navigation Aids: information requirements and design implications
Deliverables
Week 14 - (Apr. 17, 2007) Mobile Information Architecture [Top]
Primary Readings
- Crumlish, C. (2007) Mobile information architecture: designing experiences for the mobile web | Slideshow. ASIS&T IA Summit 2007.
- DotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide (2007)
Deliverables
- Presentations Continue
- Paper Prototyping - Dimitri Lundquist
- Ruby on Rails - Alex Addison
- CSS for Mobile Devices - Jade Anderson
- Project Review and Consulting
Primary Readings
Review Web Sites:
Deliverables
- Main Project Presentations
- Taxonomies & IA - Elias Tzoc
- GIS & IA - Prentiss Riddle
- Web Science - Ann Dobbs
Week 16 - (May 1, 2007) No Class - CHI 2007