UX/UI-suunnitteluLaajuus (3 op)

Osaamistavoitteet

The course focuses on practical assignments and therefore a practical overview of the Contextual Design (C.D.) methodology. Through out the course, students will gain the following knowledge:
- Able to using the "Contextual Design" framework to conduct a human-centered research and design process
- How to apply methods to different types of product development projects
- Can model and consolidate different types of user research data from various sources, and identify the most relevant user-related aspects that affect the design
- Able to give examples of good principles of group working, explain the benefits and principles of idea creation techniques, as well as to use this knowledge in practical designing work.

Sisältö

- Introduction to Contextual Inquiry
- Six models of Contextual Design: sequence model, interaction model, physical model, cultural model, artifact model, personas (They will be introduced selectively)
- Affinity diagram and consolidation
- Idea creation, storyboard method and scenarios to concretize the vision
- User Environment Design and Wireframes
- General principles for design and evaluation
- Contextual design in agile development

Esitietovaatimukset

Basic understanding in software development process.

Motivation for Learning:
To be able to take a responsibility of a small design project, students should have enough experience on the HCD methodology (e.g. contextual inquiries, analyzing data, concepting products, storyboarding, interaction design, UI design). Human-centered design methodology that covers the whole design process and provides the design team a good insight about what the users do, need and want, and how to support them with technology, so it is widely used and applied in both academia and industry.