[Sigia-l] RE: Teaching IA

[Jason Karls]

Hi Jim,

I've found that people always like to talk about what they don't like in
a website or other interactive project.  

I'd recommend keith instone's stress test activity that looks at a
website/page and systematically deconstructs it.  Can easily be adapted
to groups.
http://user-experience.org/uefiles/navstress/index.html

Depending on how many people there are, it may be good to split people
into groups of 5-7 and have them arrange page elements into something
that they'd like to see in a site/page (everyone loves to play designer
;).  You could even have them present back to the group their
thoughts/ideas.  If you can have it relate to something everyone is
familiar w/, all the better.  This activity could easily take an
hour--not sure if you have time for something that elaborate.

Good luck and have fun!

-jason


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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:29:19 -0500
From: "James Muntone" <jmuntone at simstar.com>
To: <sigia-l at asis.org>
Subject: [Sigia-l] Teaching IA



Hello,

We recently had a round of new hires and myself and another IA need to =
do an hour and a half presentation on, not only what we do internally, =
but some basics about the IA discipline in general. Anyone know any fun
= exercises that we can incorporate into our presentation? Specifically
= hands on type stuff that gets people involved.  I can't bear to just =
talk over slides for that long. No one should have to live through that
=
:)

Thanks in advance.

-j





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