| WK | DATES | TOPIC |
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| 1 | August 25 & 27 |
Introduction to UX in Business What is UX Deck: MIS3506 Fall 2025 Week 1 Intro to UX ICA: ICA Week 1 Norman’s Design Concepts Readings: Design Thinking as a Strategy for Innovation Design of Everyday Things (Norman) Ch. 1 & 2 (available from TUlibrary) |
| 2 | September 1 & 3 |
***No Class on September 1 – Labor Day*** UX Principles & Human Centered Design, Design Thinking Deck: MIS3506 Fall 2025 Design Thinking Week 2 ICA: Readings: LinkedIn Learning: Universal Design Principles: Affordances LinkedInLearning: Universal Design Principles: Root Cause Analysis https://www.creativityatwork.com/design-thinking-strategy-for-innovation/ Norman Ch 1 & 2 |
| 3 | September 8 & 10 |
Project Research, Design Thinking & Usability Testing Usability Analysis Deck: MIS3506 Week 3 Project Research and Problem Identification Lavin MIS3506 Fall 2025 Slips Mistakes and Usability ICA: Usability Testing, Business Opportunity Statements Readings: https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/heuristic-evaluation-how-to-conduct-a-heuristic-evaluation Don’t Make Me Think (Krug) Chapters 9/10/11 (available from TUlibrary) https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/5-stages-in-the-design-thinking-process Usability Analysis – Usability Test Script Norman Ch. 5 |
| 4 | September 15 & 17 |
Understanding Users Customer Journey Maps Personas Deck: Personas Deck: MIS3506 Customer Journey Maps ICA: Readings/Content: LinkedInLearning: Creating Personas (25 mins) https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ux-design-3-creating-personas/data-driven-personas-are-more-believable?u=2206009 https://business.adobe.com/blog/basics/what-is-customer-journey-map https://miro.com/customer-journey-map/what-is-a-customer-journey-map/ |
| 5 | September 22 & 24 |
Knowledge Information Architecture & Navigation Gulfs of Execution and Evaluation Deck: MIS3506 Fall 2025 Knowledge Lavin MIS3506_Menu_Design_Guidelines and Tree Testing ICA: ICA Menu Navigation Tree Test Readings: Norman Ch. 2 (up to p 56) https://www.nngroup.com/articles/menu-design/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/tree-testing/ |
| 6 | September 29 & October 1 |
Wireframing & Chatbots Deck: MIS3506 Wireframing ICA: ICA Wireframing Deck: Chatbots Introduction to Chatbot Design and Development – Presentation Readings: https://www.figma.com/resource-library/what-is-wireframing/ https://balsamiq.com/blog/what-are-wireframes/ https://miro.com/wireframe/what-is-a-wireframe/ |
| 7 | October 6 & 8 |
October 6: Exam 1 October 8: Project 1 Presentations Project 2 Kickoff: Client Interview Project 2 |
| 8 | October 13 & 15 |
Interaction Design & Microinteractions Tentative – Project 2 Interview Deck: MIS3506 Fall 2025 Microinteractions Readings: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/microinteractions/ https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/micro-interactions-ux?srsltid=AfmBOorVLtUcRjIFICJeKWQdI7WrpttHEh9NPZ9UmZB_qXnKWeMoMkfK
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| 9 | October 20 & 22 |
Prototyping Deck: MIS3506 Prototyping Readings: https://medium.com/@antonioneto_17307/prototyping-c56c2e8ca418 Complete LinkedInLearning Certificate: |
| 10 | October 27 & 29 |
Ethics in UX Design Project 2 Studio Time – Worksheet Deck: UX Fall 2025 Ethics and Blame Readings: https://designlab.com/blog/ethical-considerations-in-ux-design
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| 11 | November 3 & 5 |
ADA and Compliance: Guest Lecture: Matt Wolf, Owner, Wyndertryst Graphic Design Co. |
| 12 | November 10 & 12 |
November 10 – Project 2 Studio November 12 – Exam #2 |
| 13 | November 17 & 19 |
Communicating UX Value to Stakeholders In Class Studio Sessions
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| 14 | December 1 & 3 |
Final Presentations – TBD In Class Guidelines and Rubric:
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