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User-Centred Design

Undergraduate | RMI-CPT112 | 2018

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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.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
Subject may require attendance
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
13 weeks

HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available

User-Centred Design

About this subject

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

    1. analyse users’ needs, usability goals and user experience goals of a small-to-medium-sized software application
    2. 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
    3. critically analyse usability of sample interfaces and identify key features that make an outstanding user-centred interface
    4. critically evaluate the usability of a small-to-medium-sized software application
    5. create a ‘usability checklist’ that enhances the usability of a web or mobile application
    6. design a user interface, based on modelling or requirements specification
    7. motivate to your peers and IT specialists while you explain to them usability concepts, relevant alternatives, and decision recommendations
    8. work effectively in teams in the design of various components of the interface and peer-assess team members’ designs.

Entry requirements

No entry 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.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
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