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UX 1400H - 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. In addition, students will explore the power of digital and physical space through the lens of UX. 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
  • Synthesize and analyze the power of place through the lens of UX
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


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