Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities DH150: UX+UI Design, UCLA
Contact Instructor: Dr. Sookie Cho (sookie at g dot ucla dot edu)
This course provides an introduction to the fields of UX research and design. It covers qualitative and quantitative user/usability research methods, including ethnographic field research, persona-scenario design, information architecture, prototyping, and usability testing. Students will learn how to design and communicate user experience design in the human-centered process.
Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
- Apply a human-centered-design process
- Evaluate a user experience design and elaborate related theory and principles in the context
- Conduct user research in qualitative methods
- Conduct usability evaluation in quantitative methods
- Develop user experience writings and visualization for interactive prototypes
- Document the design decision-making process with evidence
- Present the creative user experience design
The assignment due is by the beginning of the next classtime unless it is marked with +. + marked assignments have two-weeks to work.
You will define the design problem of the current system; conduct user research to discover user's unspoken needs; and propose the creative solution by an interactive prototype for the new system. Provide the evidence how/why the solution would work with your users.
- User Research
- Design process with physical artifacts
- Video of the presentation
You will experience at least one cycle of ux process throughout the semester by 9 weekly assignments.
- Design problem statement
- Evidence of User research & testing
- Interactive prototype that demonstrates your innovative ideas about how to strengthen user experience in a specific context
- Lesson learned and future plan how you would like to iterate the process to improve your work