CS488: Short Paper, Assignment #2

Due: before the start of class, Tuesday, November 7th
Submit via e-mail to hmkabir@yahoo.com (with a cc to mohammad_hossain@ndsu.nodak.edu)

Interpretive Paper

8-10 page paper on Design, relating software design, interface design, and "guest speaker" interpretations of design

Guidelines

As you know, we have had six guest speakers.

For the purposes of this assignment I am somewhat arbitrarily dividing them into two groups:

TheoreticalApplied
Ray-DeggesMahalingam
HoneymanBergstrom
SorumBauer

For this paper, you are to do the following:

  1. Choose TWO of our guests, ONE FROM EACH COLUMN
  2. (30 pts) Summarize the theoretical presentation
  3. (30 pts) Summarize the applied presentation
  4. (30 pts) Relate the theoretical presentation to the readings in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
  5. (30 pts) Relate the applied presentation to the readings in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
  6. (30 pts) Summarize and synthesize, compare and contrast, giving your thoughts on design, using both theoretical and applied vocabulary.
  7. (50 pts) Write the above in clear, well-fashioned language, using complete sentences, primarily in active voice, with section headings and other organizing devices, and citations and references using the University of Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, 14th Ed.) natural sciences style (Chapter 16), which uses the Author-Date System of In-Text Citation.
Total: 200 points