UX Design Short Course

The UX Design Short Course is designed to equip students with the specialist skills to conceive, prototype and produce a human-centred experience in an interactive digital context. The course explores some of the standard methods of UX design and helps students develop an awareness of the wider social, ethical and political contexts in which UX work is done. During the course, students learn the advanced studio skills of user experience design, as well as the methods and practices of user research and the critical-theoretical background to the field. The UX Design Short Course covers several relevant topics including field research, paper / digital prototyping, context mapping, information architecture, and technical implementation. By the end of the course, students should be able to: • Gather, analyse and structure qualitative research data about how people behave with technologies and spaces to inform the development of a UX design project • Conceive, plan and prototype in low fidelity resolution their chosen design solution, taking into account the social and political dimensions of their idea • Present a high-resolution digital prototype of their design and demonstrate how it intersects with existing systems, behaviours, services and contexts