Studios
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each studio, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
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Orientation — reading your own dashboard
A first pass at classifying one real dashboard element before the course gives you vocabulary for it
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Reading the needle
A hands-on comparison of gauge placement and priority across three real dashboards
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Classify your own idiot light
Bring a real telltale from a car you have access to and argue whether it's genuinely binary or a continuous measurement flattened into one light
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Reading icons cold
Students guess the meaning of unlabelled dashboard icons before checking their guesses against the ISO standard
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Simulating colour-blindness on a real cluster
Running a photographed instrument cluster through a colour-blindness simulator to find out which telltales collapse into each other
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Ranking alerts by ear alone
Students listen blind to a set of real dashboard alert sounds and try to rank them by intended urgency using only what they hear
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Writing the sentence an icon implies
Taking a telltale from earlier in the course, writing the plain-language message it implies, then translating that message and measuring what breaks
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Where does the arrow go?
Students place a lane-departure and a following-distance warning on a printed windscreen photo and argue about how far into central vision an alert is allowed to intrude
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Report or narrate? Sorting real ADAS alerts
Students sort real driver-assistance alerts into "reports a state" and "narrates a decision," then argue about which kind is harder to design well
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Your personal false-alarm threshold
Students estimate the false-alarm rate at which they'd personally start ignoring or disabling a given alert, then compare answers to see how much the threshold varies person to person
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
One alert, two markets
Students research how a single dashboard alert is regulated or implemented differently in two countries, then argue which version actually serves the driver better
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Final crit — the alert vocabulary as a system
A structured peer crit of near-final drafts of the capstone assessment, testing whether each student's alert vocabulary holds together as a coherent system before it's submitted
Week 12 · 10 May 2027