Project Due Date:  See calendar

Description and Requirements

This assignment introduces you to the concept of user-centered design and the evaluation of websites. This project will give you an opportunity to develop an assessment that can be applied as a rubric to a website. As a team, you should construct a stable assessment and agree on the criteria used to select websites and administer the rubric. This rubric will be used for later website evaluations of yours and your classmates work.

For this assignment, you will be creating a rubric to review and analyze websites. This is a collaborative project and will be completed in small groups of 3-4 students.

Objectives

o Describe 5 user center design concepts, criteria, and corresponding evaluation methods used for websites

o Identify and showcase 5 examples of good web-design based on user centered design

Grading

• I will provide a rubric for grading this assignment
• Here is the rubric for assessing your colleagues
• As well as a rubric for assessing the presentation

Deadlines (see calendar for details)

• Project due in 3 weeks.
• Presentations should be posted by prior Monday.
• Critique due the following Friday.
• Status update
  

Deliverables

1.     Collaborative rubric uploaded to the wiki on your group page. 

2.     Data on the interobserver reliability of the rubric as measured by the group’s evaluators and 20 websites.

3.     A 5-10min presentation showcasing the rubric, the methods used to develop the rubric, and supporting data establishing interobserver reliability using a multimedia tool

4.     Critique of 2 other group projects

Presentations and Milestones

You will showcase your project twice; once while in progress, and then a second time when the project is due. See calendar for more details.