ART 268 - User Experience Design for the Web

3 credit hours - Two hours of lecture and two hours of lab weekly; one term.
Learn the process of creating a successful website through effective information architecture, research, strategy, and prototyping. Create wireframes, sitemaps, and other industry deliverables that communicate the business goals and user needs of a website. Develop and conduct usability studies to measure the performance of websites. Lab fee $40.

Note: Typically offered at MC and OL; fall term.

Course Outcomes:

Develop a research plan to understand user goals
Create a functional specification for a website
Plan and implement a usability test
Organize a website based on user research
Design wireframes
Build a site map for a website
Create a prototype of a website for testing purposes
Document their findings for clients, developers, and designers