Mobile App Design Schedule

Course/EVL Intro and Logistics
Client Presentations
Mobile App Skills Assessment
Student Data Sheet and Syllabus Receipt
Team Charter

Assignments and Readings

Assignment 1: Market and UX Research and Analysis

Team Presentations A1
Introduction to Mural
UI and UX design & development

Assignments and Readings

Assignment 2: UX design / sketches

Labor Day holiday — No class

Team presentations A2
Rough Prototyping
User Studies
Marvel App Interactive prototyping (1.38min+)

Assignments and Readings

Assignment 3: UX wireframe

Team Wireframes presentations A3
Brief History of Mobile Devices
Mobile & Mobility — A short Overview

Assignments and Readings

Assignment 4: UX wireframe revisions / Concept Presentations

Wireframe Presentation and Lab
Icon Design / worksession

Assignments and Readings

Assignment 5: Final UX revisions
A5 App Icon design

Icon design presentations and critique
Worksession

Assignments and Readings

Assignment 6: Storyboard Design

Worksession on navigation, user experience, color, consistency, type, iconography
Concept Revisions and Storyboard

Midterm review with clients / Design Lockout Date
Review of presentations and client feedback
Worksession incorporating review feedback

Assignments and Readings

A7 Midterm Revisions

Working session for midterm revisions

Introduction to Xcode

Interface Builder
Intro to packaging
Views and Hierarchy
How to make an App for Beginners: Lesson1
How to make an App for Beginners: Lesson2

Assignments and Readings

Assignment 8: Quiz app (based on Chapter 1)
Read chapters 1 and 3

Quiz 1 (based on Ch 1, 3)
View Controllers
Programmatic Views

Assignments and Readings

Read chapters 4 and 5

Quiz 2 (based on Ch 4, 5)
Final lab
Home screen development
Configuring a UIScrollView in a Storyboard  —  with no code!

November 29
Concept presentations
App development presentations