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    The document provides instructions for an assignment assessing a student's understanding of design principles. Students are asked to find examples of interfaces that violate or fail to implement three key principles: direct manipulation, world in miniature, and distributed cognition. For one example of each principle, students must describe how the interface violates the principle and sketch a redesign that improves upon the identified issue. The assignment will be graded based on criteria such as providing interface examples, explanations of how examples violate principles, and redesign sketches with descriptions.

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    The document provides instructions for an assignment assessing a student's understanding of design principles. Students are asked to find examples of interfaces that violate or fail to implement three key principles: direct manipulation, world in miniature, and distributed cognition. For one example of each principle, students must describe how the interface violates the principle and sketch a redesign that improves upon the identified issue. The assignment will be graded based on criteria such as providing interface examples, explanations of how examples violate principles, and redesign sketches with descriptions.

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    The document provides instructions for an assignment assessing a student's understanding of design principles. Students are asked to find examples of interfaces that violate or fail to implement three key principles: direct manipulation, world in miniature, and distributed cognition. For one example of each principle, students must describe how the interface violates the principle and sketch a redesign that improves upon the identified issue. The assignment will be graded based on criteria such as providing interface examples, explanations of how examples violate principles, and redesign sketches with descriptions.

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    The document provides instructions for an assignment assessing a student's understanding of design principles. Students are asked to find examples of interfaces that violate or fail to implement three key principles: direct manipulation, world in miniature, and distributed cognition. For one example of each principle, students must describe how the interface violates the principle and sketch a redesign that improves upon the identified issue. The assignment will be graded based on criteria such as providing interface examples, explanations of how examples violate principles, and redesign sketches with descriptions.

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    In this assignment, you’re going to build your skills for seeing how the artifacts in your
    environment implement -- or fail to implement -- fundamental design principles. It’s a great idea
    to keep a design journal, or folder, that catalogs what you see: examples of good and bad user
    interfaces. What examples of this module’s design principles can you find in your world? Your
    job is to find design examples, one for each of the three key principles in this module: direct
    manipulation, world in miniature, and distributed cognition. For each example, find an interface
    that violates the principle, explain why the interface violates the principle, and sketch a
    redesign. Your examples can be drawn from the physical world, the digital world, or ideally
    both. The kitchen is a great place to look. What are the mappings and encodings of ovens,
    refrigerators and other kitchen appliances and tools. Other good places to look include cars,
    trains/subway stations, maps and other navigational aids, and forms. Post-it notes and taped
    over controls are a goldmine because they indicate missing or misleading functionality: People
    are tempted to press the button, even though they shouldn’t, or they need a piece of
    information that the device doesn’t naturally disclose.

    Review criterialess 
    Submissions for each topic (direct-manipulation, world in miniature, and distributed cognition)
    will be grade on the following criteria. Each bullet is worth 1 point.

    Finding Example Interfaces:

     The learner submitted a picture of a physical example or digital interface.


     The learner submitted a picture of a second digital interface or physical example. (For direct manipulation and
    distributed cognition)
     The learner submitted a description of one of their examples.
     The picture and description together explain how the depicted interface violates direct manipulation.

    Redesigning:

     The learner submitted a sketch that redesigns the found interface.


     The learner submitted a description of the redesign.
     The sketch and description together illustrate a direct-manipulation redesign of the found interface.

    This assignment is worth a total of 17 points.

    Assignmentless 
    Direct Manipulation
    Find one physical example and one digital example that violate the principle of direct
    manipulation. Upload a picture of each and include a short, 1-sentence caption of direct
    manipulation violation.

    Pick one of these examples and describe in further detail how it fails to be a direct
    manipulation interface. Now, think about how you could redesign that interface to employ
    direct manipulation and illustrate your idea with a sketch and description. We encourage you to
    sketch by hand, and discourage drawing on the computer. As long as your peers can
    understand your idea, there is no penalty for drawing quality.

    World in Miniature

    Find a physical or digital interface that would be easier to understand if it were configured as


    a world in miniature. Upload a picture and describe why.

    Now, think about how you could redesign that interface to do so, and illustrate your idea with a
    sketch and description.

    Distributed Cognition

    Find one physical example and one digital interface that require the user to store more
    information than needed in their working memory. Upload a picture of each and add a
    justification why in one sentence.

    Pick one and describe what the user needs to remember. Now, think about how you could
    redesign that interface to distribute cognition into the artifact, and illustrate your idea with a
    sketch and description

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