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Unit of Study PROG2006 - Designing the User Experience (2024)

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Unit description

Focuses on designing the User Experience (UX), applying principles of psychology including cognition, perception and graphic design. Using prototyping tools, development and animation environments, students will design and develop interactive online content and simple interactive web-based applications. UX specialists are in high demand for web and mobile applications.

Unit content

  1. User experience and the design of interactive applications

  2. Design Thinking and user-centred design

  3. User Interfaces for the web

  4. User Interfaces for interactive applications

  5. Designing effective feedback and interactivity

  6. Designing for different types of applications

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
China - Guangxi UST N/A
Term4
Gold Coast
Term4
Term4
Melbourne N/A
Term4
Online
Term4
N/A
Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby N/A
Term4
Perth N/A
Term4
Sydney N/A
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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

apply User Experience principles and industry-standard design patterns to the design of web pages and interactive applications

apply Design Thinking processes and user-centred design and evaluation methods to meet user requirements

produce and present documentation to effectively communicate interactive application designs

design effective interactive prototypes using multimedia software and tools

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • A web-based development environment will be used.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.