There are two lectures a week, each of them two hours in duration. All of the lectures are common lectures that will have lecture material, design diary exercises and some small group activities. You will need to bring your design diary, as it is an assessable component of the course.

Each week you will be required to participate in your timetabled tutorial/laboratory class. There is one tutorials/laboratories a week, two hours in duration. This will be held online using Blackboard Collaborate. You will be using Microsoft OneNote which is a part of Ms Teams for Design diary activities. There are 10 sections including tutorial exercises, lecture exercises, assignment 2 checkpoints, class notes, and design ideas in your OneNote. Your OneNote will act as evidence of your original design and assignment work which is a compulsory component of this course.

Regular progress on assignment 2 group work is required and will be checked with weekly or biweekly deliverables. This is designed to keep you working regularly on your assignments so that you don’t leave things until the last minute. During some scheduled tutorial classes (see Moodle and assignment pages for dates) there will be assessable in-class activities and checkpoints (due at the beginning of the class) relating to assignment milestones. Late penalties will be applied if you have not adequately prepared for these activities.  You are all expected to be present at your tutorials for all graded milestones or you will be penalised.

This will also be a time for you to ask questions of your tutor, and for your tutor to give you some feedback on your work.

The practical periods in the tutorial/laboratory are intended to facilitate group discussion and to give you the ability to work through practical examples.

Your design diary will be marked at the end of the course. This trimester, you will be encouraged to maintain a digital design diary using OneNote on Teams. You are encouraged to find your own design examples of bad user interaction experiences. This may involve you taking a photograph, as an example, and putting that photo into your diary and writing up your ideas as to why the interaction is poor and solutions to improve.

We will use both lab-based feedback and/or electronic survey tools to gather feedback about the course.

Based on the students’ survey results in 2022 and 2023 regarding the workload, feedback, practical components of the course, and lecture contents, we made the modifications below:

• Although we update the lecture content every term, this term, the content for lectures related to new technologies has been further updated to reflect emerging devices and technologies. This includes introducing a new lecturer for mobile and touchscreen devices and another one for designing immersive technologies. We have also invited two new industry guest lecturers. Additionally, most of the examples used in the lectures have been updated to reflect current trends in technology.
• We updated the assignment instructions to make them clearer and added an FAQ section to help students understand the requirements and expectations of the assignment more easily, minimizing the need to seek clarification on the forum.
• The workload of the course is decreased by cutting one of the major components of Assignment two. This assignment is now designed to be a group work without any individual components.
• As a result of student request for more individual feedback, you will be receiving feedback for the design diaries in addition to the assignments. The purpose of this, is to improve your learning experience and help you apply what you have learned from your earlier misunderstandings, to later aspect of the course.
• Assignments are updated so that you can obtain practical experience from the lecture content and you can then implement some of the concepts in practice in the assignments.