Certificate of UI Designer

This course provides an overview of user interface design. Students will learn how to create an effective design methodology, design and organize screens and web pages that encourage efficient comprehension and execution, and create screen icons and graphics that make displays easier and more comfortable to use.

This course introduces user research and design. Students will apply user research methods, investigate the pre-and-post considerations during the different stages of the process, facilitate activities of the process, prepare for and conduct the research activity, analyze, present data to stakeholders and implement feedback throughout the product development lifecycle of the project.

The course explores guidelines for usability and how it relates to user-centered design. Students will learn how to view interface and screen design from the user’s perspective to build structures that make sense to users, design components to help users complete tasks on any device, place elements to guide users to information and functions, and display complex data with artful visualizations.

This course provides an overview of voice and web interfaces. The course will explore best practices in the field of voice interfaces, voice-enabled chatbots, security and testing in a cloud platform, multiple platforms of voice interactions for applications, real-world examples of how to produce smart and practical virtual assistants, story mapping, story mapping and its application in Agile and Lean projects, the story lifecycle and the implementation process.

This course provides an overview of the mobile app design process and how to design using IOS and Android platforms. Students will explore topics such as designing for humans, the dynamic differences in mobile design, the first sketches of an app, finding the right design flow, designing for visual appeal, working with programmers, making apps usable by all, designing for simplicity, combining visual appeal to enhance user interface, receiving feedback and refreshing a design.

This course provides students an opportunity to evaluate their personal brand and how that is reflected when creating a personal portfolio. Students will choose a Capstone project to work throughout the term to add to their personal portfolio.