Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.63 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=34 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Interaction Design Studio
Introduces human-centered interaction design for digital information systems, exploring core principles, cognition, and information science to develop new products and services.
Summary
1 / 7
Historical reviews of David McHugh: The course relies on one large group project, but reviewers report no plan to check on groups or ensure work is divided evenly.
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Prerequisites
Course map(Sophomore standing, satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A, and satisfied Communications A), or graduate/professional standing
- Sophomore standing
- satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A
- satisfied Communications A
- graduate/professional standing
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Professors
Fall 2026No course-specific feedback yet.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Adam Rule has no current reviews. Historical feedback for David McHugh highlights issues with lecture engagement and group work management.
ADAM RULE is recorded teaching in Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
DAVID MCHUGH is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 70 / 70 | 8 |
| LAB 301 | Classroom Instruction | 35 / 32 | 8 |
| LAB 302 | Classroom Instruction | 35 / 35 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews of David McHugh: David McHugh’s LIS 470 sections are described as frustrating, with lectures deemed worthless and the single group project considered meaningless by reviewers.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 85.9% A/AB (n=64 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.48 GPA, 72.6% A/AB (n=62 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.68 GPA, 86.2% A/AB (n=94 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of David McHugh: The course relies on one large group project, but reviewers report no plan to check on groups or ensure work is divided evenly.
Historical reviews of David McHugh: Reviewers found lectures uninteresting and redundant, while the instructor allegedly punished students who raised group conflicts and failed to manage team dynamics.
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Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Fall 2026.
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About this comparison
1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
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Selected offering source records
Interaction Design Studio
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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Explore recorded gradesModel outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces
Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.
Model & dataset provenance
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