6.813/6.831  User Interface Design

Project Awards

Congratulations to the award-winning projects this semester:

Honorable mention for best "stretch": Keyboard (Alejandro Dos Reis, Jason Strauss, Meelap Shah)

Honorable mention for most creative: VoiceComposer (Alan Huang, Di Liu, Daniel Gray)

Honorable mention for best field work: NLC Elevator (Connor Kirschbaum, Stephanie Greene, Joanna Kao)

Honorable mention for most likely to get VC funding: IvyPlusResumes (Wesam Manassra, Arun Saigal, Gordon Wintrob)

First prize for most creative: Dedice (Lu Lu, Michael Stunes, Fan Zhang)

First prize for best support for a different user population: FamilyConnect (Carrie Cai, Yu Cheng, Joey Rafidi)

First prize for best usability (minimalism): GroupOrder (Michael Grinich, Jana Yamani, Salman Ahmad)

First prize for best usability (simplicity): Discover.Me (Chong-U Lim, Philip Mercer, Sunila Saqib, Ethan Xu)

First prize for audience choice at presentation: VoiceComposer (Alan Huang, Di Liu, Daniel Gray)

Announced on 20 May 2012  1:49  p.m. by Robert C Miller

Course Evaluations

Please remember to fill out the course evaluations, not just for 6.813/6.831 but for all your classes. MIT classes are in a constant state of iterative design, and as you hopefully know intimately from your UI project, evaluation and feedback from the target user population is essential to making that work.

Evaluations close on Monday (tomorrow) at 9 in the morning, so take a moment to do it right now!

http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation

Announced on 20 May 2012  1:43  p.m. by Robert C Miller

More about Wednesday's Madness

The "madness" project presentations on Wednesday will happen in the usual lecture room, 34-101. We'll probably need most of the time for the presentations, so don't worry about setting up a hands-on demo for your classmates afterwards, unless you want to do it informally.

Announced on 12 May 2012  12:45  p.m. by Robert C Miller

5/16 Wed: "Madness" + Demo Instructions

Hi class,
Next Wednesday (5/16) in class, we will have a final project demo for all your cool projects.
Here's how the class will be structured:

The first half will feature "madness". Each group gets 30 seconds to advertise and present the project.
- How: Either 1 powerpoint slide (animation allowed) or 1-page PDF (4:3 ratio) or a Youtube video
- What should be included: project name + group member names
- When: 11:59pm 5/15 (Tuesday) - This is a hard deadline. Groups with no submission by this time will not get a slot.
- Where: Link your material to your group name in https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/6DOT813sp12/Madness+Order+and+Materials

* If planning to do a video, you should upload a static slide as backup in case the video doesn't play in our laptop.

The second half of the class will feature demos.
You will have a chance to show your demo to fellow students and try out other groups' work.

Good luck with finishing up your work!

Announced on 10 May 2012  4:59  p.m. by Ju Ho Kim

GR5 and GR6 due date

There was confusion between the calendar and the GR5/GR6 handouts about their due dates. The due dates are officially Friday May 11 for GR5, and Thursday May 17 for GR6.

Announced on 19 April 2012  9:04  p.m. by Robert C Miller