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User Experience Design
Postgraduate | CUR-MMK530 | 2019
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Get to know your user, and understand how their needs should shape their online experience. User experience (UX) design is a valued skill that draws on a varied toolbox, include testing, iterating and collaborating, to deliver enhanced experiences.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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User Experience Design
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- evaluate the effectiveness of user experience (UX) practice to enhance customer experience
- gather and assess prototype target-user information to improve design iteration
- apply UX design principles in developing industry-standard marketing contact points.
- Introduction to User Experience (UX)
- Design Thinking
- Understanding Users
- Heuristics
- Colour, contrast, and texture
- Composition and alignment
- Designing for optimization
- Iteration and prototyping
- Lines, shapes, and motion
- Text and typography
- Customer experience (CX)
- Communicating design ideas
The subject is designed to develop graduate competencies in utilising design principles to enhance user experiences (UX). Understanding and curating UXs is critical to effectively implementing content strategies, visual design, information architecture, and interactions across integrated customer contact points. These UXs are evaluated through needs, values, emotions, and attitudes towards products, systems or services in human-brand interactions. Students will evaluate the needs of end users to develop, test, iterate, and communicate compelling and engaging user experiences to best achieve marketing objectives.
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- Heuristic Evaluation (25%)
- UX Concept Development and Pitch (40%)
- Online School Invigilated Exam (35%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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