Courses

Employ usability engineering principles and concepts when building computing tools.
Design user interfaces from a user-centered approach.
Prototype user interfaces from a user-centered approach.
Ideate, sketch, elaborate, and communicate user experiences and interface designs.
Use techniques to improve a UI’s efficiency, learnability, and accessibility.
Understand the basic principles of human error to design UI safety.
Evaluate user interfaces using human-computer interaction principles.
Conduct heuristic evaluation of user interfaces.
Conduct user testing of computing applications.

Familiarity with basic qualitative UX research methods, like surveys, contextual inquiry, and 1:1 interviews.
Familiarity with basic quantitative UX research methods, like log analysis, hypothesis testing, and meta-analysis.
Design controlled experiments and identify independent and dependent variables.
Use parametric and non-parametric statistics to analyze experiments.
Understand how to use data for generative and evaluative computing research.
Identify and operationalize different facets of usability and user experience.
Understand, assess, and use appropriate metrics to measure user experience.
Synthesize the “so what” and surface fresh insights and opportunity areas from UX research.

Understand basic HCI theory, terms, principles, and conceptual models
Apply HCI principles toward user interface design.
Analyze user needs and requirements.
Translate user requirements into system prototypes.
Sketch design ideas of a user interaction concept.
Design iteratively a user interface based on formative evaluation results.
Apply evaluation and usability testing methods to interactive products to validate design decisions.
Recommend appropriate evaluation protocols to evaluate user experience.
Ideate, sketch, elaborate, validate and communicate user experiences and interface designs