UX Design 1

• • Universal Design Principles: Affordance, Consistency, Figure-Ground Relationship, Legibility, Mapping
  • Universal Design Principles: Alignment, Red Effects, Black Effects, White Effects, Supernormal Stimuli, Baby-face Bias
  • Universal Design Principles: Five Hat Racks, Contour Bias, Highlighting, Orientation Sensitivity, Signal to Noise Ratio
  • Universal Design Principles: Archetypes, Colour, Propositional Density, Rule of Thirds, Symmetry
  • Universal Design Principles: Accessibility, Classical Conditioning, Mnemonic Device, Picture Superiority Effects, von Restorff Effect
  • Universal Design Principles: Hierarchy, Inverted Pyramid, Readability, Stickiness, Storytelling

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-DIG272-Universal Design Principles (No longer available)

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject was previously known as Universal Design Principles.

This subject emphasises the importance of considering end users when developing a design experience. Students will be introduced to a set of design principles that are common to all disciplines of user experience design. By analysing case studies through this framework of these design principles, students will have an opportunity to hone their awareness of user-centred design and consider how individual elements may be shaped to improve the users’ experience. Students will synthesise these design principles by developing a user-centred solution to a UX design problem.

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• Design Investigation (30%)
• Exercise (30%)
• Project (40%)

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