Three Day Online Museum Experience Course

Thinking of teaching a three-day museum experience course online. If you are interested please leave a comment below. Have taught the same course in person. Each student to create their own museum oriented product, service or experience.

Course Description:
Three Day Online Museum Experience Course

Professor: Mark Walhimer, MID

This course belongs to the core areas (industrial design, graphic design, textile design, fashion design and interactive design) and provides design skills based on user research, experience evaluation, research of user demographics, communication skills and professional competence of openness to innovation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SKILLS:
Communication, Teamwork, Leadership, intellectual pursuits and openness to innovation. Project based learning with a visitor-centric viewpoint.

OBJECTIVES (After completing the course, students will be able):
Identify the importance of understanding users, and identify the requirements of different users
Develop solutions to the specific requirements of various users
Understand and develop experiences that create an emotional involvement
Understand the process required conceptualizing and designing, user focused experiences.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES (The student will be able to):
Identify the emotional aspects that play a key role in user interaction with a product or service.
Communicate the information obtained by observation and evaluation of a user.
Ability to analyze how users engage with a service or product
Provide quantitative feedback on how to improve the user experience

TOPICS:
1. Skills and cognitive processes (observation, description, comparison, relationship, organization, and analysis.
2. Thesis, Hypothesis, Synthesis.
3. Usability and interaction Sensory perceptions
4. Interacting components learning effectiveness, efficiency and ease services.
5.Factors (economic, moral, ethical, cultural) that influence the use and consumption of products
6. Emotional and affective states of the user. The emotional design.
7. Interdisciplinary in experience design, user-centered

METHODS:
Sessions the course will be of various types depending on the topic
1. Fundamental concepts are presented orally by both the teacher and by the students, providing examples and contextualizing the relevant issues
2. Exercises and case studies, which will stimulate the creation of new habits of observation, analysis, reasoning and understanding of the processes of experiential user-centered design.
3. A final project in which students must be developed to implement the different concepts of user experience,collaborative design and participatory design, studied in the course

Requirements for course:
– Submit all assignments on the due date.
– 80% attendance.
– Participation in class discussions and critiques
– Students will be required to participate in class discussions and offer positive constructive suggestions for their fellow students.

Percentages of the final grade:
– Goal Setting (“Big Hairy Audacious Goal) 5%
– Conceptual Design 5%
– Umbrella Concepts, Bubble Diagrams) 5%
– Evaluation 5%
– Universal Design 5%
– Market Place (Competition, Price Point) 5%
– Culture (Staffing, Branding, Zeitgeist) 5%
– Giving Back 5%
– Content 5%
– Persona 5%
– Final Presentation 20%
– Final Booklet 30%
Total 100%

Evaluation criteria:
10 (ten) excellent performance (expectations are exceeded)
9 (nine) remarkable performance
8 (eight) performance standard (If you meet the objectives)
7 (seven) underperforming normal
6 (six) sufficient performance (minimum satisfactory)
5 (five) poor or inadequate performance (work does not meet expected minimum)

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Each student is expected to abide by the Code of Academic Integrity. Any work submitted by a student in this course will be the student’s own work.

ACCOMMODATION FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
All students with disabilities will be accommodated. Requests for academic accommodations must be made prior to the start of coursework.

INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT
We understand that students represent a rich variety of backgrounds and perspectives. The professor is committed to providing an atmosphere for learning that respects diversity. While working together to build this community we ask all members to:

share their unique experiences, values and beliefs
be open to the views of others
honor the uniqueness of their colleagues
appreciate the opportunity that we have to learn from each other in this community
value each other’s opinions and communicate in a respectful manner
keep confidential discussions that the community has of a personal (or professional) nature
use this opportunity together to discuss ways in which we can create an inclusive environment in this course and across all communities.

CANVAS or MOODLE
Assignment submissions, discussions, and grading will all use either Canvas or Moodle course tools system. The link for Canvas for this class is:

COURSE OVERVIEW
Introduction / Overview

(First Day of Class) – Class Review, Rules, Grading, Objectives
Discussion of User Experience
Defining Consumer Experience (CX)
Discussion of differences between CX and UX, and word usage or “consumer” and “user” and implications

I. Identifying / Understanding the User
Brand, Personality Types, Assignment: Myers Briggs Test
Defining Expectations and Learning Styles
Personas, Assignment: Define a User Persona
Researching Demographics and Cultural Differences, Assignment: Research a demographic
Universal Design / Empathy, Assignment: Interviewing Users
Accommodating Different Users

II. Defining Objectives & Goals (START OF STUDENT PROJECT)
Differences between Objectives and Goals, Assignment: BHAG
Defining a Goal / Content
Defining an Objective, Google Algorithm Assignment: Define Measurable Results
“Buyers are Liars”, Testing for Quantitative results

III. Experience Design
Umbrella Concept
Creating a Narrative and Umbrella Concept, Assignment: Three Umbrella Concepts
Presentation of Student Umbrella Concepts & Critique
Creating a Narrative / Voice / Catharsis
Defining the Threshold, Style Boards and “Look and Feel”, Assignment: Style Boards
Presentation of Student Style Boards & Critique
Creating Bubble Diagrams and Flow Charts, Assignment: Create Bubble Diagram and Flow Chart
Other Topics Covered: Wow Moments, Weenie, Lens, Framework, Journey, Arc, Hero, Design is communication, You can’t not communicate, Your life is made up of your days and your days are defined by the objects you use, Barriers to communication, Personas, User Journeys, Content Requirements, Funnel Diagrams

IV. “Product Design”
Emotional Impact
Creating Tension
Defining User Requirements
Creating a Force Fit,
Other Topics Covered: Negative Space, Spatial Relationships, User Interface and Product Requirements

V. Evaluation, Prototyping, Testing, Iterations – 1 week (Students will use their project for each assignment)
Front End Evaluation
Formative Evaluation
Prototyping
Interviews
Design Iterations
Mapping / Dwell Time
Remedial Evaluation
Summative Evaluation
Topics covered: Front-end evaluation, 2. Formative evaluation, 3. Remedial Evaluation 4. Summative evaluation, Prototyping, Interviews, Mapping, Dwell time, Design Iterations

Field Trip & Experience Designs – Day Two

Presentations – Day Three
Students will present their User Experience (5 Minutes per student, 15 students 2 1/2 hours). Each student is required to deliver their presentation materials at the time of their presentation.

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