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Undergraduate RMI-CPT112-2021

User-Centred Design

Focus on improving experiences and engagement for end-users. Adopt a design first approach to create meaningful, useful and functional interfaces. Apply user-centred design to develop interactive systems considering people’s abilities and limits.

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$993 $1,243

Your upfront cost: $0

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Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • HECS-HELP
  • FEE-HELP

Assessments

Subjects may require attendance

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

  • 30 Nov 2020
  • 31 May 2021
  • 29 Nov 2021
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QS RANKING 2021

15

Times Higher Education Ranking 2021

23

  • 2021

Subject details

What you'll learn

Upon successful completion of this subject you should be able to:

  • analyse users’ needs, usability goals and user experience goals of a small-to-medium-sized software application;
  • use software and paper prototyping tools to design user interfaces that take into account human capabilities and constraints, users’ needs, usability goals and user experience goals;
  • critically analyse usability of sample interfaces and identify key features that make an outstanding user-centred interface;
  • critically evaluate the usability of a small-to-medium-sized software application;
  • create a ‘usability checklist’ that enhances the usability of a web or mobile application;
  • design a user interface, based on modelling or requirements specification;
  • motivate to your peers and IT specialists while you explain to them usability concepts, relevant alternatives, and decision recommendations;
  • work effectively in teams in the design of various components of the interface and peer-assess team members’ designs.
Topics covered
    • What is UCD?
    • Identifying users
    • Personas
    • The UCD design process
    • Getting Feedback
    • Interface Design
    • Interaction Patterns 1
    • UCD on mobile devices
    • Accessibility and testing
    • Analytics
    • Industry perspective (guest)
    • Revision
Entry requirements

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

  • OtherDetails -

    Stable broadband connection required to access online learning materials and live chat sessions/recordings. (note: mobile broadband users may have difficulties participating in live chat sessions) Unrestricted broadband access to use online prototyping tools such as Invision an advantage.

Description

User-centred design is a design methodology that focuses on the needs of end users; limitations of end users; preferences of end users; and business objectives. This subject is concerned with the development of interactive systems with a strong focus on user-centred design and usability principles. You will learn what characteristics of a user interface can make it easy or hard for people to use, and how to design user interfaces that take into account human capabilities and constraints. The emphasis will be on design first (iteratively, on paper or with mock-up software). The design principles you learn here will be applied in the follow up degrees in web and mobile application development.

Assessments

  • Assignment 1 (20%)
  • Assignment 2 (30%)
  • Invigilated Exam (50%)
Textbooks

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Related degrees

Undergraduate RMI-CPT-DEG-2021

Bachelor of Information Technology

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