Welcome!

14 outubro 2024, 19:39 • Augusto Esteves

We are thrilled to welcome you to the 2024/25 edition of User-Centered Design and Evaluation! This course starts a month from now on November 13, and covers various techniques and methods that put the user — not technology — at the center of the design process of systems and services.


Apologies for this long first announcement, but we ask that you read it carefully. We look forward to working with all of you.

Ground rules and course management

- We will use Notion, not Fenix, to manage course materials, etc. We will share the Notion link for the course before classes start;

- Formal announcements will still be carried out in Fenix;

- Not only do you need to be enrolled in a lab to complete this course, but you also need to be in a team by the end of the first lab. Working in teams is mandatory;

- Attending lectures is highly recommended. This is where you first learn the techniques and methods you will apply in your project and lab sessions;

- Make sure to bring paper, pens, highlighters, post-its, scissors, etc. to both lectures and labs.

Discord and lab swaps

- You can only attend the lab in which you are enrolled in, and thus can only form teams with students from the same lab;

- If you wish to swap labs with another student, you must do this by November 13. We have created a Discord server to facilitate this (invite), and a channel (#lab-swap) where you can discuss lab swaps with other students. Please follow the instructions pinned to this channel;

- The purpose of this server is to facilitate communication between students (e.g., survey sharing) and to support remote teams (i.e., student-workers, see below). It is not to replace office hours -- please check our Notion page (TBA) for this information;

- We ask that you change your Discord nickname to your first and last name. Please do this by November 15, or we must remove you from the server.

Student-workers

- Student-workers (trabalhadores-estudantes), identified in Fenix as such, do not need to enroll in a lab and will be assigned a group at the start of the course;

- If a student-worker enrolls and participates in the first lab, they will be assessed for the remainder of the course as a regular student.