User Interface Design
UndergraduateLTU-CSE2UI2023
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
User Interface Design
About this subject
Analyse and identify UI design issues based on UI design principles.
Apply wireframe tools to both low-fidelity and high-fidelity UI prototype design.
Conduct UI evaluations with cognitive walkthrough and heuristic evaluation.
Use statistical methods to interpret and evaluate usability testing results.
- • Introduction to user interface design.
- • Interface design principles.
- • User research: methods, process and planning.
- • User research: analysis and experience maps.
- • Design patterns and wireframes.
- • Prototyping, system maps, task-flow diagrams, heuristic evaluation and user testing.
User Interface (UI) Design focuses on creating interactive interfaces which are intuitive and easy to access and understand. This subject will introduce you to the main theories, methods and techniques that are applied to UI design and evaluation. Main topics include design thinking, user research analysis, iteration and prototyping, and user testing. Based on these UI theories and techniques, you will create mobile prototypes with wireframe tools and evaluate them with UI testing methods in practice classes and assignments.
- One UI design assignment (equivalent to 800 words) (20%)
- One UI programming assignment (equivalent to 800 words) (20%)
- Two tutorial works (equivalent to 400 words for each). (10%)
- One final exam (equivalent to 2000 words) (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-TEC-DEG-2023 - Bachelor of Information Technology
Elective
- LAT-TEC-DEG-2023 - Bachelor of Information Technology
Others
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed CSE2ICX (Internet Client Engineering) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
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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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Information Technology
UndergraduateLAT-TEC-DEG