User Interface & Design
Aims
Goal: give a designer feedback on an app screen — one good thing, one problem, one suggestion — using the right design words.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Say it to the designer
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: What Users See and Touch
Read a 146-word text about What Users See and Touch
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Design Words
7 items
- Reading10 min
Reading: A model feedback minute
Read a 200-word text about A model feedback minute
- Practice7 min
Practice: Match the Design Terms
Matching exercise, 6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Fix the Design Sentences
Error-correction exercise, 4 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Discussing App Design
Role-play: You're giving feedback on a new app design to a designer (8 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: the feedback minute
3 discussion questions
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Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
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