Keith Instone on User Experience
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For teaching CS3240 Usability Engineering at BGSU in Spring, 2025
I am going to teach CS3240 at BGSU again in the Spring semester, 2026. This time I am updating it for “the AI age”. Having students do some user-centered design activities “by hand”, some with generative AI tools, and lots of critiquing of AI systems. UI design for AI systems, e.g., when we can do …
I am excited to have Jon Yablonski visit my CS 3240 class on April 14th. His Laws of UX book is a great way to learn principles of visual design, user-centered design, and user experience. I am also excited that he will be visiting GDSN 3055 (User Experience/User Interface Design) classes offered in the Graphic …
It is Spring Break at BGSU, about halfway through the semester. I have “customized” the Usability Engineering class a bit, re-arranging the textbook topics, going deeper in a few areas, and adding a few tidbits from my industry experience. Order of Topics I front-loaded chapters that help with the project, where the students are going …
Ohio Magazine wrote an article about BGSU’s Life Design program, which caused me to put the CS usability engineering course in context (on LinkedIn, repeated here). The “Life Design” commitment was one reason I agreed to teach the decades-old “Usability Engineering” computer science class at BGSU this semester. I am actively working with people at …
The first piece of my “speakerware” that I am using for CS3240 is my 4 ways to think about UX, based on eating/cooking/food industry examples. A simplification of my “figure it out by presenting” UX Spins sessions. I have been using this set of slides with students for a while , at “career path” conferences …
Time to teach a User Experience-related class at Bowling Green State University again. I have taught a class, as an adjunct, about every 10 years: in 2006 & 2016, it was the graduate class in Human Issues in Computing. This time it is the undergraduate Usability Engineering course, CS3240. (A “legacy” title, but the core …