User Interface Design

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Department of Digital Design

Synopsis:

Students gain a basic overview of methods for designing and testing common user interfaces. They get experience to solve the problems where software and other products do not communicate with the user optimally, since the needs and characteristics of users are not taken into account during product development. Students gain an overview of methods that bring users into the development process to ensure optimal interface for them.

Requirements:

Students must have a basic idea about SW systems design and their life cycle.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction into the area of user interfaces. Usability, user centered design.

2. Design evaluation: predicitive and interpretative techniques.

3. Design evaluation: usability testing.

4. Context and domain analysis.

5. User research, ethical aspects, collaborative design. Personae.

6. Information architecture design.

7. Prototyping user interfaces (paper mock-up, software tools).

8. Psychology of interaction and user interface guidelines.

9. Patterns of design and user behavior

10. User support, navigation and classification.

11. Ergonimics.

12. Special user interfaces, accessibility.

13. The position of UI design in software life cycle.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Project rules and topics

2. Heuristic evaluation, interface analysis.

3. Teams formation, project assignment.

4. Usability lab demonstration.

5. Cognitive and heuristic walkthrough, inspection.

6. Project status presentation & discussion.

7. Design and recognition of icons

8. Project status presentation & discussion.

9. Prototyping (Denim, HTML, Flash, Visual Basic,...).

10. Project review, final agreement on project finish

11. Consultations

12. Project presentation.

13. Project presentation.

Study Objective:

Many (software and other) products do not communicate with the user optimally. The main cause is that the needs and characteristics of users are not taken into account during product development. In this module, students gain an overview of the methods that involve users in the development process to ensure optimal communication with the user.

Study materials:

1. Sharp H., Preece J., Rogers Y. : Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition). John Wiley & Sons, 2019. ISBN 978-1-119-54730-3.

2. Shneiderman, B., Plaisant, C. ''Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th Edition)''. Addison Wesley, 2004. ISBN 0321197860.

3. Nielsen, J. ''Usability Engineering''. Morgan Kaufmann, 1993. ISBN 0125184069.

4. Galitz, W. O. ''The Essential Guide to User Interface Design''. Wiley, 2002. ISBN 0471084646.

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Further information:

https://courses.fit.cvut.cz/BIE-TUR/

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Bachelor Specialization Computer Engineering, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor Specialization, Information Security, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor Specialization, Software Engineering, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor Specialization, Computer Science, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor Specialization, Computer Networks and Internet, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor Specialization Computer Systems and Virtualization, 2021 (elective course)
• Study plan for Ukrainian refugees (elective course)
• Bachelor Specialization, Computer Engineering, Version 2024 (elective course)