GRD 240 User Interface/User Experience

Lecture: 2 Lab: 3 Clinic: 0 Credits: 3

This course introduces a design-centric approach to user interface and user experience design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective. Emphasis is placed on demonstrating the stages of the UI/UX development process, including user research and analysis, choosing methodologies, defining a project’s strategy, scope, and information architecture, developing sitemaps and wireframes, performing user testing, and producing prototypes. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate current best practices and conventions in UX design and apply them to create effective and compelling digital screen-based experiences.

Course is typically offered in Spring.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
At the completion of the course, the students should be able to do the following:

Demonstrate a working knowledge of user experience and usability and apply these to design, research and testing practices in the field of interaction design for a digital interface.

Analyze and evaluate various research methods as they relate to user experience and usability testing.

Develop a user testing tool, such as a survey, to conduct user testing on a digital interface.

Conduct research to identify a target audience for a digital product and develop personas.

Demonstrate proficiency in industry-standard software used for interface prototyping.