This course introduces students to concepts and techniques used in usability testing. Through theories presented in the course, students learn common ways to locate errors or problems with interactive products. This course will focus on Web design usability testing.

• Course Materials
  • Textbook: Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett
  • Course Syllabus
  • Group Project Instructions & Forms
• Week 1
  • Week 1 Lecture (Statistics)
  • Lab Exercise (Excel Graphing)
• Week 2
  • Week 2 Lecture (User Acceptance Testing)
  • Reading Excerpt [Krug, Chapters 9-11] Required
  • Assignment 1 due Week 3
• Week 3
  • Week 3 Lecture (Alpha Testing)
  • Complete reading Krug excerpt (chapters 9-11) Required
• Week 4
  • Week 4 Lecture (Unit & Load Testing)
  • Project Plans (parts I-V) due today - send copies to your client for approval
• Week 5
  • MidTerm Examination
• Week 6
  • Lecture: Security (Web Security Basics and Testing)
  • Project Development
• Week 7
  • Project Development continued (please remember that you must be ready to have your site go to beta by next week).  Project Managers please remember that your Testing Plans (part VI) were due last week and I still only have one - YOU MUST HAND THIS IN TODAY OR POTENTIALLY FORFEIT 25 POINTS (10%) OF THE GRADE!  Please give to Rob Anderson to put into my box or email it to me.
• Week 8
  • Week 8 Lecture (Beta Testing & Regression Software)
• Week 9
  • Group Self and Peer Evaluations
• Week 10
  • Final Examination
• Week 11
  • Review Group Projects
  • Review of Student Usability Test Example
  • Preview for next quarter