Course Syllabus
1. Course Title Usability and Web Design
2. Course ID 2301667
3. Course Credit 3
4. Faculty Science, Department of Mathmatics
5. Semester Second Semester
6. Instructor Nagul Cooharojananone
7. Course Condition No
8. Course Status Subject
9. Programme name Master degree of Computer Science 10. Course Level Master degree
11. Hours per a week Lecture 3 hours 12. Course Description
Web User Experience, Web Usability, Usablity Problems, Search, Navigation and Information Architecture, Typography
13. Course Outline 13.1.Purpose
- Students are able to understand the importance and benifits of good design - Students are able to understand principles of Web User Experience - Students are able to understand the Usability Problems
- Students are able to understand the good design of Search - Students are able to understand the good design of Navigation
- Students are able to understand the principle of Information Architecture - Students are able to understand the principle of Typography
13.2.Outline
1. The Web User Experience
2. Revisiting Early Web Usability Findings - Eight Problems That Haven't Changed - Technological Change: Its Impact on Usability - Adaptation: How Users Have Influenced Usability
- Restraint: How Designers Have Alleviated Usability Problems 3. Prioritizing Your Usability Problems
4. Search
5. Navigation and Information Architecture 6. Typography: Readability & Legibility 7. Writing for the Web
8. Providing Good Product Information 9. Presenting Page Elements
10. Balancing Technology with People's Needs 11. Design That Works
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13.3.Teaching Method - Lecture - Examination - Project 13.4.Teaching Media
- White board - Overhead projector - Computer
13.5.Evaluation: 100 points full score is classified into
- Midterm 30 points
- Final 30 points
- Class Participation 10 points
- Project 30 points
14. Reference
1. Usability and Web Design Lecture Notes by Nagul Cooharojananone Supplements
2. Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger, Prioritzing Web Usability, New Riders., 2006.
3. Jakob Nielsen, Designing Web Usability, New Riders, 1999.
4. Laura Leventhal and Julie Barnes, Usability Engineering Process, Products and Examples, Pearson, 2008.
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