Graduate Certificate - Human-Centered Informatics

Human-centered informatics focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of IT systems with a particular emphasis on their relations and interactions with people. The emphasis of understanding users’ experience when they interact with technology in the information-rich environment and the design of interfaces between users and systems makes it different from the focus of a software engineering program or a visual and artistic design program.

Students will develop the technical skills to study user experience in various IT environments (home, business, social media, healthcare, etc.), focusing on user needs, information architecture, and design of user interfaces. Graduates will be able to propose innovative or improved design solutions to real-world problems.