Human-computer interaction
Most students arrive unable to build a website. They leave able to build one that works, that people can actually use, and that they can evaluate: code quality, user testing, interface evaluation.
teaching
Understanding something is part of building it.
I teach human-computer interaction and semester projects at HEIA-FR, at roughly 20% alongside the rest.
- Interaction design
- Web engineering
- Code quality
- User testing
- Data & AI
- Teamwork
On the board, week one
What I tell them
- A good system solves a real problem.
- Build it in pieces, because you will end up replacing one of them.
- Every decision needs a reason you can say out loud.
- Ask. Someone else's experience is the cheapest thing you will ever get.
- Leave the code better than you found it.
Semester project
Teams learn to move data between a data team, a backend and a frontend, and to build a first AI model from nothing: find the data, understand it, sort it, work out which model the problem even wants.