Schedule 2023

North Carolina State University Library Course reserve

Week
Date
“Think” / Read or Watch
“Do” / Due*
Week 1 Jan. 10 Introduction to Experience Architecture (XA)

 Practice: Submission
Week 2 Jan. 17 Classification, Labor, & Discourse Communities

 Practice: Feedback
Week 3 Jan. 24 Designing for Finding and Understanding

  • Rosenfield. Ch 3 – 5
  • Covert. Ch 3
  • Hinton. Part I.
 Practice: Resubmission
Week 4 Jan. 31 Categories, Labels, and Card Sorting

  • Rosenfield. Ch 6 and 7.
  • Covert. Ch 4.
  • Morville. Categories & Connections
 Report: Submission
Week 5 Feb. 7 Peer drafts Report: Feedback
Week 6 Feb. 14 Storytelling with/through Visuals

  • Rosenfield. Ch 8 and 9.
  • Hinton. Part III.
  • Morville. Culture.
 Report: Resubmission
Week 7 Feb. 21 Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies
Week 8 Feb. 28 Architecting Experiences

 Design: Submission
Week 9 Mar. 7 Peer drafts Design: Feedback
Week 10 Mar. 14

☀️😎 Spring Break 🛏️😴
Week 11 Mar. 21 Architecting Experiences con’d

 Design: Resubmission
Week 12 Mar. 28 Dark Patterns and Design
Week 13 Apr. 4 Ethics of Information Architecture

  • All are available at the course reserve for the class.
    • #darkpatterns: UX Practitioner Conversations About Ethical Design
    • From UX to Engagement: Connecting Theory and Practice, Addressing Ethics and Diversity
    • The digital cage: Administrative exclusion through information architecture
    • Ethical Mediation in UX Practice
 Propose: Submission
Week 14 Apr. 11 Peer drafts Propose: Feedback
Week 15 Apr. 18 Careers in Experience Architecture

  • Hinton. Part VI.

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 Propose: Resubmission
  • * All work is due on Saturdays