10152130UIUX and Web Accessibility
Course Information
Description
This course explores the fundamentals of user experience design (UX), user interface design (UX), and web accessibility. With a focus on user-centered design, students will conduct and analyze user research, build diagrams, and develop a working desktop prototype. Topics include design principles, UI evaluation techniques, design ethics, web inclusivity, and assistive technology. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are investigated and applied with a coded website. Students will have an opportunity to earn two digital badges: Teamwork and Web Accessibility Fundamentals.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Explore the User Experience (UX) design process
    Assessment Strategies
    Team project
    Exam
    Criteria
    Summarize the business strategy and purpose
    Identify target users, their goals, needs, and motivations
    Document each UX process by documenting business and user research, site map, user flow, and wireframe design
    Communicate each process within a team environment

  2. Interpret findings of user research
    Assessment Strategies
    Team project
    Written document summarizing contextual inquiry
    Design document illustrating card sort and persona research
    Criteria
    Perform contextual inquiry capturing and assessing unique user needs
    Conduct a card sort and analysis
    Create user personas
    Analyze user goals and needs

  3. Design mobile and desktop user interface
    Assessment Strategies
    Written product
    Project
    Presentation
    Criteria
    Use a heuristic evaluation to design a user interface
    Choose effective fonts, color, and imagery
    Explore common design patterns and standards
    Establish an information hierarchy in website layout and navigation system.
    Justify design choices and their impact on user experience
    Web designs present imagery and language that promote awareness of diverse identities

  4. Evaluate user interface (UI) design
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion
    Peer reviews
    Criteria
    Critique desktop and mobile interface designs using user interface (UI) heuristics
    Analyze user flow, visual design, and user expectations
    Critique meets expectations as identified by instructor

  5. Perform accessibility tests
    Assessment Strategies
    Level AA compliant website project
    Discussion
    Accessible HTML coding assignment
    Exam
    Criteria
    Demonstrate compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
    Explore disability types, website barriers, and legal and moral reasons for accessibility

  6. Explore inclusion in digital design and code
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion
    Assignment
    Criteria
    Identify website inclusivity required for a universal World Wide Web focusing on cultivating awareness and barriers to users with impairments or disabilities