UI/UX Design Specialist

The course’s objective is to help the student acquire foundation knowledge for the upper-level design courses. It introduces the graphic design principles to the students and covers topics such as form, typography, type styles, color theory and their applications in user interface and user experience design.

At the end of the class, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Understanding the foundations of graphic design
• Problem-solving with design tools and techniques

This course introduces the students to theories, tools, and techniques of designing visual representation of information in a context of a design problem. It discusses varying forms, structure, categories, and architecture of information and how they could be visualized to provide meaning to the users of the visual product.

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Applying different information architectures
• Using information visualization in UI/UX design

The course introduces the students to the foundations of human-computer interactions and interfaces. It discusses the user mental model and how it impacts the interaction design as well as the impact of affective and cultural factors and how they inform the interaction design.

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Learning human-Computer basic principles
• Demonstrating design tools and techniques

This course introduces the student with the concept of design systems and how they are used in designing computer applications for varying platforms. It covers the current common design systems such as Google material design, Apple material design as well as web design systems.

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Practicing the different design systems
• Creating responsive design across multiple platforms

The course introduces the concept of design evaluation and the tools and techniques for design evaluation. The students will study research methods and how to design user study experiments in order to understand the mental model of the users to whom the application is designed and developed.

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Qualitative and quantitative user study design
• Designing user study experiments

During the course, the students get familiar with Design Sprint practice designed by Google Venture. It is a 5-day process through which the student will learn how to answer the product-related business questions through a five-stage process including understanding the problem through mapping out the problem and picking one problem to focus on, developing low, medium, and high-fidelity prototypes, launch and test the prototypes and learn from the process.

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Mapping out the problem to solve
• Performing design sprint

The objective of this course is how to communicate the design to different members of the team including product, development and sample target customers. The students will learn about tools (like Zeplin, InVision and so on) to deliver their design unambiguously to other team members so that they can make their related decisions based on the given design.

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Design communication tools and techniques
• Collecting feedback process on design

This course aims to introduce the students with some special topics and trends in UI/UX design. The goal is to provide the students with each topic by discussing very basic and core topics and terminologies used in each area and how they are impacted by UI/UX design process.

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• UX design for games (games analysis from UI/UX perspective)
• What are gamification and its applications in other sectors
• The Psychology of Design

This course gives the opportunity to the student to practice the knowledge they have gained to work on a real project. The project involves all the students have learned including UI/UX design, evaluation and communication.