Table of Contents

1. Subject Summary
2. Subject Coordinator
  Subject Coordinator
  Email
  Phone
  Consultation procedures
3. Subject Overview
  Abstract
  Learning outcomes
  Subject content
  Key subjects
  Assumed knowledge
4. Subject Schedule & Delivery
  Prescribed text
  Class/tutorial times and location
  Schedule
  Learning materials
  Learning, teaching and support strategies
  Recommended student time commitment
5. Assessment Items
  Essential requirements to pass this subject
  Items
    Design Concept (Indiviual)
    Team Design (Team)
    Evaluation (Team)
    Working Prototype (Team)
    Reflection (Individual)
6. Assessment Information
  Academic integrity
  Referencing
  How to submit your assessment items
    Online submission process
    Postal submission process
    Hand delivered submission process
    Alternative submission process
  Extensions
  How to apply for special consideration
  Penalties for late submission
  Resubmission
  Feedback processes
  Assessment return
7. Student Feedback & Learning Analytics
  Evaluation of subjects
  Changes and actions based on student feedback
  Learning analytics
8. Services & Support
  Develop your study skills
  Library Services
9. CSU Policies & Regulations
  Subject Outline as a reference document

Subject Summary

ITC504 - Interface Useability
Session 1 2019
Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences
School of Computing and Mathematics
Internal Mode
Credit Points 8
Welcome to a new session of study at Charles Sturt University.
Please refer to the University's Acknowledgement of Country.

Subject Overview

Abstract

This subject provides an advanced study of Interface Design and Evaluation. The subject will look at various contexts that affect interface design and will employ both design and usability principles to evaluate and design interfaces. It includes the creation of usability testing strategies to ensure that both the design and usability requirements are met as well as the evaluation of test results.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should: be able to explain the relevance of integrating aspects of the human, social and organisational context into the design process; be able to demonstrate and articulate the importance of the principles of design that are applicable to the design of an interface; be able to evaluate the effective usability of an interface and recommend changes to improve its usability; be able to design a user interface to meet a given set of requirements; be able to design a usability strategy to ensure that an interface meets its usability goals; be able to interpret and evaluate usability testing results to plan interface improvements.

Subject content

The subject content is listed in the Schedule below.
The Topics pages in ITC504 Interact give more information on each topic in this subject.

Key subjects

Passing a key subject is one of the indicators of satisfactory academic progress through your course. You must pass the key subjects in your course at no more than two attempts. The first time you fail a key subject you will be at risk of exclusion; if you fail a second time you will be excluded from the course.

The Academic Progress Policy sets out the requirements and procedures for satisfactory academic progress, for the exclusion of students who fail to progress satisfactorily and for the termination of enrolment for students who fail to complete in the maximum allowed time.

Assumed knowledge

Similar to the level of ITC415 or ITC412

Subject Schedule & Delivery

Prescribed text

The textbooks required for each of your enrolled subjects can also be found via the Student Portal Textbooks page. The prescribed text for this subject is :
Rogers, Y., Sharp, H., & Preece, J. (2015). Interaction Design (4th ed.). Chichester, West Sussex, UK.: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Recommended Reading:

Some recommended texts are listed below. These texts are not required for study in this subject but may be used to add depth to your studies. The books by Donald Norman and Steve Krug are particularly recommended for further study. Norman, D. (1990), The design of everyday things. Doubleday, New York. Norman, D. (2004). Emotional Design. Basic Books, New York. Krug, S. (2006). Don't Make Me Think. A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Berkeley. CA: New Riders. Krug, S. (2010). Rocket Surgery Made Easy. The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. Berkeley. CA: New Riders. Lauesen, S. (2007), User Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspective, Harlow, UK, Pearson Education Ltd. Lowdermilk, T. (2013). User-Centered Design. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media Inc. Shneiderman, B., & Plaisant, C. (2009). Designing the user interface: Strategies for effective human-computer interaction (5th ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ACM/IEEE/SIGCHI journals. CHI and OZCHI proceedings. Charles Sturt University call number [P004/S1].

Required Software

The software that we will use for this subject is Balsamiq's Mockups v3.5.x (v. 3.5.9 at the time of print).
Balsamiq Mockups is a professional wireframing tool and Balsamiq have granted all HCI students at CSU a full professional licence that will work until February 2020. The Balsamiq Mockups licence file can be downloaded from the Resources Page of the ITC204 Interact site. You can download either the Windows or the Mac OSX version from the Balsamiq download page at balsamiq.com.

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