UX 1400 - Foundations of User Experience

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

Course Description

This workshop-style course introduces students to basic concepts of User Experience (UX) design and explores key roles, skills, tools, and career paths for a UX specialist. The course provides students with foundations of behavioral design, design thinking, visual design, prototyping, user research, UX writing, and data for UX design. Hands-on projects, class activities and discussions, and guest speakers help students develop a better sense of UX and its role in creating equitable and meaningful products and services. Students build a digital portfolio to showcase their work and start branding themselves as professionals.

(prereq: none)

Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Explain basic UX design principles and their role in creating user-friendly products, processes, and services
Identify UX career types and responsibilities
Articulate and apply basic principles of behavioral, design thinking, design ethics, visual design, information architecture, wireframing, UX writing, and heuristics to class projects
Apply professional software to site maps and wireframes in class projects
Use cloud-based authoring and productivity tools for collaboration
Build a basic digital portfolio

Prerequisites by Topic

None

Course Topics

UX job market and careers
User persona, user story, user journey
Behavioral design
Design ethics
Design thinking
Visual design basics
Information architecture
Wireframing and prototyping
UX writing
Heuristics and cog walks
AB and multivariate testing
The power of digital and physical space
Professional portfolios

Coordinator
Dr. Nadya Shalamova

Announcement

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UX 1400 - Foundations of User Experience