Course Overview
User Experience (UX) encompasses a wide range of activities including User Interface (UI) design, Information Architecture (IA) and field research. Usability design and testing, tight integration and collaboration with software development processes are included in UX. This hands-on course is an introduction to UX/UI for those who are creating user interfaces for web sites, mobile applications, and information systems, as well as those who want a better understanding of the role of UX/UI. In conjunction with 2911, students will follow an iterative and agile approach focusing on User-Centered Design (UCD) as the motivator for product direction. Participants will be expected to work in teams, with an emphasis on collaboration, brainstorming, and continued evolution of an interface concept based on UCD.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate successful practices in User-Centered Design (UCD).
- Explain the relationship between User Experience (UX) Design and the Agile Software Methodology.
- Use personas and user stories to identify features of a digital prototype.
- Prepare and conduct surveys and interviews to prove product validity.
- Propose a supporting information architecture for a digital prototype.
- Identify anti-patterns in User Interface (UI) design and why they are unacceptable.
- Conduct usability testing over several iterations.
- Identify various usability heuristics and how to apply them.
- Demonstrate effective user flows that support intuitive navigation.
- Prepare a value proposition that supports a defensible digital prototype.
- Develop effective prototypes and wireframes using an iterative methodology.
- Identify digital artifacts that support current design preferences in both web and mobile computing.
Effective as of Winter 2018
Related Programs
UX/UI Development (ACIT 2811) is offered as a part of the following programs:
- Indicates programs accepting international students.
School of Computing and Academic Studies
- Full-Stack Web Development
Diploma Full-time
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