Bachelor of Science - User Experience Design
About Bachelor of Science - User Experience Design
Program Description
The BS in User Experience Design prepares students for the expanding fields of user experience and interaction design. The program integrates visual design, code, and user research. Concepts and skills involved include design principles, prototyping, and usability testing. Students will learn how to analyze, design, develop and evaluate effective computer interfaces to provide better user experiences.
The User Experience Design program offers two concentrations: a design concentration and a development concentration. The design concentration emphasizes coursework in interaction design, usability, and user research. The development concentration emphasizes coursework in information technology and interactive scripting.
Concentrations
Design Concentration
The design concentration emphasizes coursework in information and interaction design as well as strategies for design of social media. It further prepares students to integrate components for social media and create finished visual designs for website, apps, and causal games.
Development Concentration
The development concentration emphasizes coursework in information technology and interaction scripting. It further prepares students to develop the web sites, mobile apps and interactive displays that they have designed.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Plan and conduct a variety of user research methods for developing empathy, understanding problems, and identifying user needs and design opportunities.
- Evaluate, critique, create, and rationalize interfaces with respect to visual design principles, affordances, interaction design principles, and interaction design patterns.
- Transform user research and apply design principles and patterns to create wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and experiences that simulate interfaces and have enough functionality for usability testing with participants.
- Read, comprehend, and write code relevant to contemporary web and mobile devices at a basic level, use code to create rough prototypes, and research, evaluate, and rationalize design decisions as they relate to code.
- Effectively communicate user research findings, design concepts, and design rationale in written and verbal forms.
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