ICS 631 User Experience and Design Thinking
This course provides students with advanced knowledge and skills in designing user experience. Students learn how to discover user needs and desires, conceptualize user-centered designs, and test design solutions. Classes will cover latest industry trends, scholarship, and emerging technologies in user experience.
First day attendance is mandatory.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Note: Students are responsible to both be aware of and abide by prerequisites for ICS courses for which they enroll, and will be administratively dropped from a course if they have not met prerequisites.
Special information
Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Note: Students are responsible to both be aware of and abide by prerequisites for ICS courses for which they enroll, and will be administratively dropped from a course if they have not met prerequisites.
4 Graduate credits
Effective May 3, 2017 to present
Learning outcomes
General
- Implement solutions to enhance the user experience.
- Describe latest breakthroughs in HCI.
- Implement interaction design effectively.
- Use user cognition framework.
- Select most usable interaction among alternatives.
- Use scenarios in creating a design.
- Apply evaluation methods to test and measure usability.
- Design disabilities accommodation in accordance to regulations.
- Apply fundamentals of social media communication.
- Construct a data presentation for maximum understandability.
- Use modern user interaction interface development tools.
- Demonstrate expertise in reading peer reviewed papers infield of HCI and explain them in writing.
Summer 2025
| Section | Title | Instructor | books | eservices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | User Experience and Design Thinking | Jayne, Katherine L | Books for ICS-631-50 Summer 2025 | Course details for ICS-631-50 Summer 2025 |