Module Overview
UX (User Experience) Design
Part-time / Level 9 / Online / 5 ECTS
This module aims to enhance the user experience by providing the core knowledge to optimise device usability, by examining a broad range of user experiences across software and hardware applications and establishing the necessary interaction requirements for enhanced user experience across a broad range of technology. This module will be informed by best-practice interaction standards and guidelines. The key objective is to minimise unnecessary barriers to the use of ubiquitous IT applications for everyday living e.g., online shopping, information searching, communications, social media.
User demographics:
- The way that users use IT.
- The history and evolution of human-computer interaction, interaction design and user experience design.
- Interaction design, user-centred design and user experience design methods.
- User personas and scenarios.
- Gathering user requirements: surveys, questionnaires, interviews, ethnographic research, contextual inquiry.
- Analysing user requirements: personas, task scenarios, UML use case diagrams, hierarchical task analysis, card sorting.
- Information architecture: organization structures, labelling systems, navigation systems, search systems.
- Evaluation: Heuristic evaluation, user testing, cognitive walkthroughs, designing a test plan, evaluating findings, reporting on findings.
- Prototyping, wireframes and storyboards, design communication and documentation.
- Cognitive processes and cognitive frameworks.
- Designing for social interactions.
- Emotional aspects and affective computing.
- Technostress/Technophobia
- Universal Design.
- Technology landscape of devices.
The module is designed to be delivered within a blended learning model, employing mixed modes (online and face to face) of learning, teaching and assessment.
The learning methods used to achieve the module learning outcomes will involve a combination of lectures, discussions, case studies, and practical based work. Formal lectures will be balanced with labs and student participation
Module Content & Assessment
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
|---|---|
| Other Assessment | 100.00% |
Contact school.cs@tudublin.ie for further information.
EU students: €230
Non-EU students: Contact international.city@tudublin.ie for more details.