CS 355 - User Interface and Experience

Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Explore design stages on a variety of applications from concept to design completion using storyboards, feature requirements, rapid prototyping, and user testing techniques. Determine the importance of working with designers and solving front-end issues.

Prerequisite: Admission to BSCS program and Dept. Chair permission.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Given a problem requiring a software solution, apply current best practices for user interface design.
Analyze end user characteristics and desired software functionality to design a productive user experience.
Explore fundamental interaction design theory in the context of analyzing qualities of user interface design.
Use planning tools such as storyboards and rapid prototyping to design a screen-based application in accordance with contemporary principles, theories, methods, and practices for user interface design.
Design and develop user-testing techniques to assess various user interfaces and experiences.

Course Contents

Current best practices for user interface design.
End user characteristics and desired software functionality to design a productive user experience.
Fundamental interaction design theory in the context of analyzing qualities of user interface design.
Planning tools such as storyboards and rapid prototyping to design a screen-based application in accordance with contemporary principles, theories, methods, and practices for user interface design.
User-testing techniques to assess various user interfaces and experiences.

Instructional Units: 5