Dec 07, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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UXD 2963 - Intelligent User Interfaces

1 lecture hours 0 lab hours 1 credits
Course Description
The course covers fundamentals of interface design and introduces algorithm-driven user interface (UI) design patterns. The course emphasizes the role of a human-centered approach in UI design to improve the reliability, safety, and trustworthiness of AI applications. Students will use a human-centered approach to prototype a user interface with AI-enabled capabilities. 
Prereq: UXD 2961 
Note: None
This course meets the following Raider Core CLO Requirement: None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Articulate the fundamental principles of UI design and apply them to a real-world project 
  • Employ human-centered approach to design intelligent and exploratory user interfaces (UI) 
  • Identify appropriate techniques to create an impactful data point of view 
  • Be aware of the industry-standard tools for data visualization 
  • Design an impactful data point of view for target users 
  • Design a low-fidelity prototype utilizing UI design principles while considering contexts and users 
  • Advocate for human-centered approach in AI-enabled UI design 

Prerequisites by Topic
  • Basic understanding of human-centered design approach or design thinking 
  • Basic understanding of design principles, typography, and color 
  • Basic understanding of fundamental concepts and conventions of data visualization 

Course Topics
  • Fundamental principles of UI design 
  • Components of an exploratory UI and its role in human-centered AI applications 
  • Inclusive design and UI patterns 
  • Visualization of quantitative and qualitative data 
  • Telling a story with data 
  • Common mistakes of data visualization and how to avoid them 
  • Industry-standard tools for data visualization 
  • Traditional UI design process vs. AI-based UI design process 
  • AI-enabled UI examples 
  • Design principles for AI-enabled UIs 

Coordinator
Dr. Katherine Panciera



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