使用者經驗設計專題

This course introduces students to the concept of the User Experience Design (UXD) especially focuses on the interaction between human users, machines, and the contextual environments to design systems that address the user's experience. It will give students insight and experience in how a UX designer might explore, collect, analyze, and reports the key issues to impact the overall experience a person. In class and practice sections, students will be required to tackle design problems by using different methods, and invent solutions to re-design systems. There are no formal prerequisites for the course, but students are supposed to have basic HCI course or related knowledge.

HCI or Interaction Design related background and classes

Week 2. Introduction – User Experience Week 3. Users and Context ________________________________________ Week 4. Culture Probe and Scenario Week 5. Problem Space and Design Thinking, Week 6. Seeing Work Week 7. Getting Ready for Site Visits and Subject Recruiting Week 8. Research Plan and User Profiles Week 9. Conducting the Site Visit Week 10. Midterm Project Report – Research Plan Week 11. Analyzing and Presenting the Data Week 12. Consolidation and Communicating to the Organization Week 13. Consolidation and Communicating to the Organization (continued) Week 14. Working Toward the Interface Design Week 15. Design from Data: System Design Week 16. Design from Data: System Design (continued) Week 17. Team meeting Week 18. Final Report Due and Presentation

1. Individual Assignment: Reading summary and class critics (30%) 2. Assignment 1: Personas and User Diary (15%) 3. Midterm: Research Plan (25%) 4. Final Project (30%): Final term report, video prototype, and PPT presentation