ITC200 > Syllabus
Class: User-Centered Design for the Web
Quarter: Spring 2012
Time: T/Th, 05:00PM to 06:50PM in room BE3156
Credits: 4.0
Class Hours: 44
Type of Course: Workforce Education Preparatory
Length of Course: 11 weeks
Prerequisite: WEB120 & WEB200 or Instructor Permission
Course Description:
This course provides an overview and detailed look at how the user experience dictates the design, functionality, features and content of a website in while successfully achieving the client’s business goals.
Course Goals:
The students will design and develop a small to medium sized e-commerce website while focusing on the user experience and goals of the business. This class will provide the student with a case study and website portfolio piece to present to potential employers.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of ITC200, the student will be able to:
- Organize and present complex functionality in a simplified manner within a website to achieve client goals
- Create a successful navigational scheme that is consistent throughout the website
- Make informed user-centered interface choices utilizing the principles of aesthetics and ergonomics
- Create a look and feel that makes a favorable first impression
- Efficiently communicate with the end user through the use of appropriate dialogue boxes and form applications
Required Text:
- The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web, by Jesse James Garrett
Suggested Text:
- Prioritizing Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen
- Eyetracking Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice
- A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making, by Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler
- Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, by Christina Wodtke & Austin Govella
- Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work, by Robert Hoekman, Jr. & Jared Spool
- Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices (2nd Edition), by Dan Saffer
Evaluation Methods:
Your final grade will be a culmination of your Class Assignments:
- Assignments will create an overall Class Project to be presented at the end of the quarter
- Assignments require critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Assignments will be “due” according the class schedule*
- Students are responsible for assignment information on assignment pages
- Students are also responsible for assignment information given in class
- Assignments will be marked down 25% for every week they are late
*Students must check the schedule before asking the instructor, “When is this due?”
ADA Confirmation:
(Americans with Disabilities Act) If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, if you have emergency medical information to share with me, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please contact me ASAP.
