P2PU Archive - General discussion

[FINAL] P2PU Techsprint - Barcelona

João Menezes — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:49:28 +0000

Hello there,
Our course has come to an end! I hope you guys were able to share your knowledge with the other peers.

I'm currently in Barcelona at the P2PU Techsprint, and we're working on the improved version of P2PU.
I'll let you guys know of any news during the event.

Thanks again for your participation, and hope to see again on our next course next semester!
João

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[Class 7] Final presentation

João Menezes — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:50:35 +0000

Hi there,
We've defined the tools that will be used to do the final presentation.

http://gomockingbird.com/ - for graphical mockups
http://pads.dreamfish.com/3QKK6SCacu - Etherpad for comments

The outcome of this project will be presented to the P2PU team, in Barcelona, on October 29th.
We should have this completed by Thursday, 28th. Our focus is to improve the general interface of sharing knowledge.
Please take a look at the questions written on the Etherpad to get more familiar with the motivation.

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[Class 6] Prototyping/Mock-up

João Menezes — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:35:55 +0000

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Class 6 - Prototyping/Mock-up

Propose a new user experience design to the P2PU Webcraft platform. Use graphical tools, as Balsamiq or Mockingbirs, to do the graphical wireframes.

An important detail:
This is a real project. The ideas developed here will be presented to the P2PU project team, on a Creative Commons Attribution model.

Let's work together, I'm sure there's gonna be lots of great ideas.
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[Class 5] UX Design plan

João Menezes — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:29:07 +0000

Hello everyone!

On our last class, we studied about using Personas as methodological tool to help on the Design process. Now, we're starting the development of our final virtual learning environment. This activity will be done in parts - Class 5, Class 6 and - the final presentation - Class 7.

This class will be slightly different from the others. The motive/theme will come from yourselves. I'll be here as an orientator, helping you to discuss and analyze deep questions about user experience design.

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[Class 4] Personas-based studies

João Menezes — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:30:56 +0000

Hello everyone, this is the brief for our 4th class. As this is our first practical lesson, I'll post just the specification today:

We'll need to form 3 groups.

Having the groups formed, I'll give the next instructions.
Thanks!
João

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[Class 3] Introduction to Cognitive science and Gestalt principles

João Menezes — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:29:35 +0000

Hello everyone, this is the brief for our third class.
As posted earlier, there are going to be different assignments/exercises/reading recommendations thru the week. Please post your results here in this Forum thread till Sunday October 2nd.

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Class 3 - Exercise 1
Read these links about Gestalt, Cognitive sciences and the Theory of Perception. Post your comments here in the forum. You'll realize that the authors of these articles have different perspectives about the efficiency of these concepts.

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[Class 2] Introduction to Interaction, Information, Interface and Instructional Design

João Menezes — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:46:56 +0000

Hello everyone,
This is the brief for our second class. Please note that classes from now on will last 1 week, with one or more activities/assignments to be published during the days.

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Class 2 - Exercise 1
Read these blog posts and highlight the items you find interesting. Post these highlighted items here in this forum, with an example of a website were you can see these items applied.

http://mashable.com/2009/07/23/alumni-social-media/
http://mashable.com/2009/07/23/alumni-social-media/

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[General] Classes Schedule

João Menezes — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:54:46 +0000

Classes Schedule

Class 1: Sept 15th - Sept 19th

Theme: Introduction to the course objectives and analysis of local UX designs
Method: Forum board for discussions
Assignment: Post examples of good UX design websites, explaining why you chose them.

Class 2: Sept 19th - Sept 26th

Theme: Introduction to Information Design, Interface Design and Instructional Design
Method: PDF file for personal studies. Forum board for discussions.
Assignment: -

Class 3: Sept 26th - Oct 3rd

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[General] Classes Schedule

João Menezes — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:54:24 +0000

Classes Schedule

Class 1: Sept 15th - Sept 19th

Theme: Introduction to the course objectives and analysis of local UX designs
Method: Forum board for discussions
Assignment: Post examples of good UX design websites, explaining why you chose them.

Class 2: Sept 19th - Sept 26th

Theme: Introduction to Information Design, Interface Design and Instructional Design
Method: PDF file for personal studies. Forum board for discussions.
Assignment: -

Class 3: Sept 26th - Oct 3rd

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[Class 1] Welcome to the UX: Designing for Education course!

João Menezes — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:04:57 +0000

Hello everyone and welcome to our course!

First of all, I'd like to thank you for the great mini-projects you've developed for the sign-up task. This post marks our first class. Most of our exercises will be asynchronous. We're gonna have a very light exercise to start it:

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Class 1 - Exercise 1
Introduce Yourself

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