This course focuses on UX design. The flow of the course is built on the previous knowledge of the students on Basics of UX design courses. By covering up all learnings from last years and experiences on the field, we are going to on more detailed issues of UX Design in different aspects.
Creating and practicing user experience design methodologies.
Vertical Tabs
Course Learning Outcomes
| Learning Outcomes | Program Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| 1) Effectively co-create within interdisciplinary teams | 1 | 1,2,3 | A,B,C |
| 2) Properly select and utilize design thinking processes and UX methods, | 8 | 1,2,3 | A,B,C |
| 3) Test assumptions and prototype potential design solutions | 4 | 1,2,3 | A,B,C |
| 4) Ask for, give, and receive directive feedback, | 2 | 1,2,3 | A,B,C |
| 5) Effectively communicate and persuasively present ideas to an interdisciplinary audience. | 6 | 1,2,3 |
A,B,C |
Course Flow
| COURSE CONTENT | ||
| Week | Topics | |
| 1 | INTRODUCTION | |
| 2 | UX Aspects- Overview | |
| 3 | General Principles of UX Design | |
| 4 |
PACT ANALYSIS Project Phase 01: Declaration/ Teams of 2 |
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| 5 |
PACT ANALYSIS Project Phase 02: User Research |
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| 6 |
PACT ANALYSIS
Project Phase 02: User Research Improvements |
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| 7 |
SCENARIOS & USER JOURNEY
Project Phase 03: Personas & Scenarios |
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| 8 |
SCENARIOS & USER JOURNEY
Project Phase 04: Design Sketches and Ideas |
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| 9 |
INTERVIEWS
Project Phase 04: Design Sketches and Ideas |
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| 10 | MIDTERM | |
| 11 | DESIRABILITY&USABILITY | |
| 12 | USER TESTS | |
| 13 | Project: Final reports and Presentations | |
| 14 | Project: Final reports and Presentations | |
| 15 | Discussion session | |
| 16 | FINALS | |
Recommended Sources
| RECOMMENDED SOURCES | |
| Textbook | lesson videos / online instructions |
| Additional Resources |
Norman, Don Designing Everyday Things, Chapter 6. Design Thinking
Graham, I. (2003) A Pattern Language for Web Usability . Addison-Wesley, Harlow. An excellent McLuhan, M. (1994) Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Newell, A. and Simon, H. (1972) Human Problem Solving. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Rheinfrank, J. and Evenson, S. (1996) Design languages. In Winograd, T. (ed.), Bringing Imaz, M. and Benyon, D.R. (2005) Designing with Blends: Conceptual Foundations of |
Material Sharing
| MATERIAL SHARING | |
| Documents | Tutorial video / written documents / presentations |
| Assignments |
1-Web/App/Product UX Analysis
2-UX Design Award Research 3-UX Pattern Analysing 4-Responsive Design Research 5-Persona 6-Sports Center Persona Definition 7-Interview Practice 8-Analyse your project’s desirability |
Assessment
| ASSESSMENT | ||
| IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 15 |
| Final | 1 | 40 |
| Assignments | 2 | 20 |
| Participation | 1 | 15 |
| Attendance | 1 | 10 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Contribution Of Final Examination To Overall Grade | 40 | |
| Contribution Of In-Term Studies To Overall Grade | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Course’s Contribution to Program
| COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM | |||||||
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | Uses technical and academic knowledge accumulated in user experience design field for authentic projects. | x | |||||
| 2 | Apply user experience design methods for creative products considering the aesthetic rules. | x | |||||
| 3 | Employs efficiently the technical innovations required by the professional field. | x | |||||
| 4 | Analyses problems related to the field starting from the concept and develops appropriate projects for the targeted audience. | x | |||||
| 5 | Behaves according to the national and international professional ethical principles. | x | |||||
| 6 | Builds awareness to universal and social problems by developed projects and offers solutions to them. | x | |||||
| 7 | Gains sectoral experience by compulsory internship, relates academic knowledge with field experience. | x | |||||
| 8 | Grasps the importance of interdisciplinary working by lifelong learning mind-set and collaborates with different teams. | x | |||||
| 9 | Develops concepts, creates work of arts and organizes exhibitions in order to enrich the cultural and artistic accumulation related to the sector. | x | |||||
| 10 | Transforms the creative ideas into moving and interactive visual expressions, executes multi-dimensional designs. | x | |||||
ECTS
| COURSE CATEGORY | Expertise/Field Courses | ||
| ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION | |||
| Activities | Quantity | Duration (Hour) |
T Total Workload (Hour) |
| Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours, 13 lecture weeks + 3 holiday weeks) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice, 13 lecture weeks + 3 holiday weeks)) | 16 | 3.5 | 56 |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Final examination | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Homework | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Total Work Load | 126 | ||
| Total Work Load / 25 (h) | 5,04 | ||
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 15 | ||