Class 1: Introduction

Get the presentation
Get the participant survey (if you haven't already filled it out) 
 

Class 2: Content Management 

Get the presentation
 

Information Architecture 
Essentialsmoves to 
Class 5

Class 3: Information Delivery Systems

Assignment:  Group project plan (due 2/23) 

Review the description of the project plan (note that the prototype is due 3/16, and that usability testing will be performed 3/23) 
 

Project plan due 
today

Web-based Documentation 
and Multimedia to be 
folded into Class 8

Class 4:  Project Plan Workshop/Knowledge System Case Study: AnswersOnLine

Get the sample project plan

Knowledge Systems
moves to Class 9

Class 5:  Information Delivery Media/Information Architecture Essentials

Get the presentations: Static vs. fluid media, information architecture
References: Top 10 design sites from toptenlinks.com

Assignment: Analysis of two information-based web sites -- one company, one information provider (due 3/9) 
 

Web sites analysis 
due today

Class 6: Human Factors and Usability Testing

Get the presentations: Human factors in GUI design, usability testing
References: Sample usability test and script
 

Project prototypes 
due today

Class 7: Case-Based Reasoning Systems

Get the presentation: Data Analysis, Data Mining and Case-Based Retrieval Systems
Assignment: tool or technique (due 4/13) 
 

Usability testing 
performed today

Class 8: Social Interfaces and Web Communities
 

Tool/technique 
due today

Class 9: Mini-lectures
 

Class 10: Project Presentations