Earn your 12-credit graduate certificate in User Experience (UX) Design.
These requirements apply to students entering this program in fall 2024 and thereafter. Students who enrolled earlier should consult the in effect at the time they enrolled.
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Explores electronic publication environments as fluid spaces where interactions among
people, machines and media (words, images, sounds, video, animations, simulations)
must be structured for the unforeseen. The course focuses on planning, analyzing,
prototyping and integrating interaction design with interface design. Lab fee required. prerequisite: PBDS 501 or passing score on the Hypermedia Proficiency Exam
Teaches students to gather requirements data, model information structures and develop
a variety of documents to communicate the information architecture to other participants,
including technical experts, usability experts, clients and users. Students learn
to determine a target audience, develop personas or user profiles, refine and validate
requirements and create site maps and other 鈥渟pecs鈥� and wire frames. Lab fee required. prerequisite: PBDS 501 or passing score on the Hypermedia Proficiency Exam
Introduces concepts, theories and methods that support the study of human-computer
interaction and user-centered system design. Major approaches to machine-mediated
learning and understanding are surveyed, with an emphasis on problem-solving, knowledge
representation, structure of knowledge systems and problems of interface design. Prepares
students to understand and analyze research based on empirical study of human behavior
and on models of learning and understanding. Lab fee required.
Introduces the chief methods for studying users鈥� interactions with software and information
resources. Encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methods, including analysis
of logs, indirect observation, traditional usability studies and ethnographic techniques.
Lab fee required.
