ADV205 - Designing User Experience
Unit details
| Year: | 2023 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong), Online Trimester 1 2023 will be the final offering of this unit |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| Previously coded as: | ADD201 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Jacinta Kay |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ACG203 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 2-hour seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - online: | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week (livestreamed with recordings provided) |
Content
In this unit, we explore the practices and techniques of designing user experiences. Emergent technologies have a profound impact on practices of reading, experiencing and consuming media. This unit addresses this dynamic situation introducing user experience design for human centred and agile environments, which leverage emergent technologies, consumer electronics and/or mobile devices. Learning about and utilising visual communication design, navigation, flow, information, semiotic hierarchy, and data will be negotiated through consultation, research and practical exercises. This unit is geared towards the production of strategies and design processes to capitalise on new developments. Here, we focus on understanding and implementing digital project management practices, wire framing, design patterns, visual design comps, whilst working with the Adobe Creative Suite.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Demonstrate theoretical knowledge of the design process involved in building user experience design | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Show critical thinking and analytical evaluation of a design | GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO3 | Use design-thinking methods to solve problems in design outcomes | GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO4 | Collaborate effectively in a team to deliver design outcomes | GLO7: Teamwork |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 - Research Case Study | 30% | Week 4 | |
| Assessment 2 - Research Proposal | 30% | Week 8 | |
| Assessment 3 - Project Presentation | 40% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via ADV205
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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