User Experience Design
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Course director
Course director
Assistant
Assistant
Description
Usability and the overall User Experience are crucial for the success of any digital product. This course takes a hands-on approach in teaching how to create useful, usable, and (well-)used digital products. Students not only develop an awareness and appreciation of the crucial implications of good interfaces in terms of overall system performance and user satisfaction, but also learn core skills needed in order to identify user requirements, envision interfaces and processes, and evaluate competing design options.
Objectives
This class aims at familiarising students with both the theory behind the discipline of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and the practical process of User eXperience (UX) design.
Teaching mode
In presence
Learning methods
Students will work in small teams of 3-5 to drive a design project from start to finish. Core skills are introduced in hands-on classes, interspersed with lectures and discussions about the underlying theory.
Examination information
Students will submit a number of reports describing their group project and possibly present these beforehand so to collect feedback from us too. No exam is required.
Bibliography
- Krug, Steve. Don't make me think!: a common sense approach to Web usability. 3rd ed., 12 repr. revisited. Berkley]: New Riders, 2017.
- Norman, Donald A.. The design of everyday things. Revised and expanded edition. Cambridge, Mass. London: The MIT Press, 2013.
- Sharp, Helen, Rogers, Yvonne, Preece, Jenny. Interaction design: beyond human-computer interaction. Fifth edition. Indianapolis, Indiana: Wiley, 2019.
Education
- Master in European Studies in Investor Relations and Financial Communication, Lecture, Suggested Elective Course, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture, Elective, 1st year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Corporate Communication, Lecture, Thematic Area: Customer Experience and Value, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Corporate Communication, Lecture, Thematic Area: Crossmedia, Transmedia and Multimodal Communication, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Corporate Communication, Lecture, Thematic Area: Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Marketing and Transformative Economy, Lecture, Thematic Area: Stategy and Entrepreneurship, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Marketing and Transformative Economy, Lecture, Thematic Area: Customer Experience and Value, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Marketing and Transformative Economy, Lecture, Thematic Area: Crossmedia, Transmedia and Multimodal Communication, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication in Media Management, Lecture, Thematic Area: Crossmedia, Transmedia and Multimodal Communication, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication in Media Management, Lecture, Thematic Area: Customer Experience and Value, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication in Media Management, Lecture, Thematic Area: Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Economics in Finance, Lecture, Electives o Field Project o Semestre all'estero (Digital Finance), Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Financial Technology and Computing, Lecture, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Informatics, Lecture, Information Systems, Elective, 1st year
- Master of Science in Informatics, Lecture, Information Systems, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Management and Informatics, Lecture, Elective, 2nd year
