PROD381-21S2 (C) Semester Two 2021

Special Topic

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 July 2021
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2021
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 1 August 2021
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 1 October 2021

Description

Special Topic

Special Topic - User Interface Design

This course provides students with an opportunity to learn to build interactive user interfaces and prototypes for digital products. User Interface (UI) Design is considered a critical aspect of modern product design, especially in digital products and products with digital interfaces.

UI design is a process of visually guiding the users to communicate and interact with the products via interactive elements. UI design can be applied in mobile application/game design, software design, and design for digital devices across all platforms to enhance the users' experience.

Students will be introduced to the design principles, research methods, and design approaches for UI/Ux design to create interactive interfaces that users will find visually appealing and mentally comfortable to use. Students will be able to identify users' needs of a specified context, construct, visualise, test, and present clickable digital prototypes in high-fidelity. Students will learn to design interactive interfaces for both digital and physical products in this course, which will expand their future career choices.

Learning Outcomes

  • By the end of the course students will be able to:
  • Use various user research techniques to understand and identify users' needs then analyse
           and deliver user research in forms that support UI design.
  • Select appropriate ideation techniques that start from user research and broadly generate
           potential design ideas for early UI design exploration.
  • Design and prototype interactive user interfaces to address the users and tasks identified in
           user research.
  • Apply principles from graphic design to create visually appealing user interfaces using
           advanced Adobe Illustrator techniques.
  • Employ appropriate processes to design for specific populations and situations, including
           accessible and inclusive UI design.
  • Deliver high-fidelity interactive UI prototypes and communicate the designs effectively with
           programmers and stakeholders.
  • Create interactive UI prototypes to complete future design projects of Smart Product.

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of the Head of School.

Course Coordinator

Wendy Zhang

Course Administrator

Alison Lowery

Lecturer

Wendy Zhang

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Cooper, Alan , Reimann, Robert., Cronin, Dave; About face : the essentials of interaction design ; Fourth edition; John Wiley and Sons, 2014.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $785.00

International fee $3,500.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Product Design .

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