Interdisciplinary Teaching Strategies for Designing and Building Effective Smartphone Applications
Carla Viviana Coleman Cordova, Nilanjan Banerjee · GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications · 2018
Working together, we've created an interdisciplinary project that teaches both designers and developers the life cycle and project management of mobile application development. Working with professional clients, visual arts and computer science students, we used teamwork to tackle real-world projects with deadlines, milestones, and budget constraints. Throughout the semester, students from the Advanced Interface Design and Mobile Programming classes collaborated to apply their design and programming experience to develop smartphone applications for clients. This paper presents the insights gathered from teaching this interdisciplinary course.