Kasutajaliidesed võrgutehnoloogia baasil

Kursuse kood: ITV0030
Link: http://www.lambda.ee/index.php/Kasutajaliidesed_võrgutehnoloogia_baasil or http://www.lambda.ee/index/itv0030
Õppejõud: Tanel Tammet
Kontakt: tammet@staff.ttu.ee, 6203457, TTÜ AK223
Varasemate aastate arhiiv: 2007, 2006, 2005.

Koht, aeg, tulemus

Semester: kevad
Nõuded: kaks laboratoorset tööd ja kontrolltöö kursuse lõpus
Punkte: 2.5

Loeng: paaritute nädalate kolmapäevadel kell 12.00-13.30 ruumis VII-131 (uus korpus). Esimene paaritu nädal algab 28. jaanuaril.
Harjutus: paarisnädalate esmaspäevadel kell 12.00-13.30 ruumis IT 213-A (AK arvutiklassid).
Praktikum: paaritute nädalate esmaspäevadel kell 12.00-13.30 ruumis IT 213-A (AK arvutiklassid).

Goals

The goal of the course is studying/practicing ideas, methods and technology for building UI-s for web-based apps. We will focus on applications handling data, not marketing/information pages. Creating the actual app, database schema, security and authentication solutions etc etc are not in the scope of the course.

The three themes of the course (with roughly equal importance) are:

• Nontechnical aspects of the UI design: usability, etc
• Browser technologies: html, css, javascript
• Server technologies: json, xml, xslt

We assume familiarity with html and basic server-side functionality: i.e. competence to create simple web apps.

Labs

There will be two labs with the common theme, yet to be decided]:

• First lab: building the functioning prototype/fake UI using static files for the app.
  • Deadline: mid-March.
• Second lab: actually building the app, using web services provided by the lecturer and the UI prototype you built before.
  • Deadline is mid-May.

Labwork may be done alone or in pairs. Groups of three, etc are not allowed. Each lab will be graded, and the grade will be worth 1/3 of the final grade. In order to succeed at the course, both labs plus the final test must be presented/passed. Lab presentations after the deadline will be worth 1/2 of the grade it would receive otherwise. All lab results must be presented on site during regular lab hours, both authors must be present. Email submissions are not accepted.

Loengud/harjutused

Loeng 28 jaanuar

Sissejuhatav loeng IT-213 A: kursuse ülevaade, esimene laboratoorne töö

Important reading

UI design

May be extended later.

Basic UI design principles: classics

• Spolsky book draft: great design
• Spolsky: User Interface Design For Programmers
• Spolsky: It's Not Just Usability
• Tognazzini: First Principles of Interaction Design.

More concrete and practical UI design principles

• current web style
• 2.0 web style from 2006
• Jared Spool on design
• personality: one chapter from a book
• access by design: online book
• user in your face: short online book

Web app page structure and design, whitespace, colors etc:

• understanding visual organisation
• using white space
• using colors
• serious online book: use the content menu on the left
• good, short online book split into separate articles

Web app design details: pagination, forms, measures:

• pagination 101
• more pagination
• form design
• grid system

Resource collections for finding more:

http://www.alistapart.com/ best universal resource collection http://www.wpdfd.com/resources/ web page design resources

UI implementation: browser

Standards:

• HTML 4.01
• CSS

Tutorials:

• HTML tutorial
• First CSS intro
• CSS tutorial
• Javascript tutorial 1
• Tutorial: javascript + css + html
• Westciv CSS book
• Westciv CSS tutorial

Articles, ideas, howtos:

• A list apart
• CSS Zen garden
• CSS edge
• Differences between browsers

Resource collections:

• a large collection of tutorials and tips
• htmldog: html ja css tutorials and handbooks

Tips, tricks and cool stuff

• perfect list-based menu/tabs/etc design examples from listamatic,
• a large number of cool categorized pure css demos with explanations
• 10 css tricks
• mastering Ajax: see also links at the end
• Yahoo UI library