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Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.

Four assessments, each one closing a block of the semester: Observe, Create, Test, and Question + Redesign. Each builds directly on the last — the Hate Catalogue is where you learn to see the mechanism, The Worst Interface is where you build one, the Hostile Design Experiment is where you find out whether it actually works, and the Redemption Project is where you turn all of it back on something real you want to fix.

Hate Catalogue

Five examples of design that make people miserable, picked apart until you can say exactly why each one works

Due 8 March 2027 · Weight: 15%

The Worst Interface

A working interface you make deliberately worse on purpose, with the receipts for exactly why

Due 29 March 2027 · Weight: 25%

Hostile Design Experiment

Running your worst interface on real people, then finding out if it actually did what you designed it to do

Due 3 May 2027 · Weight: 20%

The Redemption Project

Autopsy, defence, evidence and a redesign of one real system you actually hate, argued in that order

Due 24 May 2027 · Weight: 40%