HCI 530 Mobile Design
Summary
Theoretical and practical issues for mobile device design. Design strategy, patterns and research within a mobile context. Students will learn to create useful, usable and enjoyable experiences that consider the unique capabilities and constraints of mobile platforms, which include creating responsive mobile web, iOS, and Android native app wireframes and prototypes.
Texts
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Mobile Usability
By: Jakob Nielsen
Publisher: New Riders
Pub. Date: October 10, 2012
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-88448-5
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-88448-0
Mobile User Experience: Patterns to Make Sense of it All
By: Adrian Mendoza
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Pub. Date: September 3, 2013
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-12-409514-4
Responsive Mobile Design
By: Phil Dutson
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Pub. Date: September 18, 2014
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-388821-5
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-388821-8
Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Smartphone Apps (second edition)
By: Theresa Neil
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Pub. Date: May 7, 2014
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4493-6363-5
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Your grade will consist of 5 assignments (70%), a final exam (20%) and a D2L online discussion participation grade (10%). Each will be graded on a 100 point scale. Final Grades will be assigned as follows:
A : (93-100%)
A-: (90-92%)
B+:(87-89%)
B : (83-86%)
B-: (80-82%)
C+:(77-79%)
C : (73-76%)
C-: (70-72%)
D+:(67-69%)
D : (60-66%)
F : Below 119 points (60% or below)
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