User-Centred Design

• • 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

No eligibility requirements

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - 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.

This is an introductory course to user-centred design and usability experience; consequently, if you have already completed User Interface Design or User Interface Programming, you do not need to take this course.

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 course 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 prototyping tools). The design principles you learn here will be applied in the follow up courses in web and mobile application development.

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

Current study term: 28 Nov 21 to 27 Feb 22

Next study term: 29 May 22 to 28 Aug 22