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Berkeley Global
Diagramming and prototyping are essential tools to convert innovative ideas into tangible and profitable products. Designers use diagramming to visually communicate with end-users and other team members about the holistic experience they are developing. In prototyping, designers create representation of the products and conduct usability tests to quickly get feedback on their ideas as they translate their designs from low to high fidelity and iterate based on user research findings.
By going through multiple iterations of the prototype and usability testing, you can document your research processes, collect and apply feedback, and assess your product usability in a timely manner. Each in-class exercise builds up your understanding and competencies as you design for various types of digital products (interactive kiosk, Apple watch app, enterprise website and mobile apps). By the end of the course, you will have gained the fundamental knowledge, critical thinking of UX trends and future expectation, and craftsmanship in order to create a final UX portfolio project.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
- Apply critical thinking approach for initiating user experience design
- Distinguish successful and unsuccessful user experience design
- Understand and synthesize information about diagramming through real-world examples
- Design successful visual diagrams and prototypes that are intuitive and self-explanatory
- Plan and create prototypes for various new digital platforms including
- Present and communicate idea professionally and give/receive critique in constructive manner
- Research, document and conduct usability tests in concise and effective scale depending on the type of projects
- Evaluate design in each iterative phase and apply changes selectively to improve quality
What You Learn
- Value mapping
- Adobe Illustrator
- Design critique
- Diagramming and prototyping history
- Universal principles of design
- Customer journey mapping
- Voice-command experience design
- Lucid charts
- User research and testing
- Apple Watch interface
- Digital prototyping
- Bootstrap and website development
How You Learn
- Lectures
- Discussions
- Demonstrations
- Reviews and critique
- In-depth exercises
- Assigned readings
- Research homework
- Design exercises
- In-class user testing practice in a small group
Is This Course Right for Me?
If you are interested in user experience design or web design and would like to work in diagramming and prototyping, then this course is a fit.
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