2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

ART 233 - User Experience Design


Description: Website planning, design, and evaluation using industry-standard software and languages. Basic principles of User Experience (UX) flows and interactions in interactive media. Application of design principles to web authoring.

Prerequisites: ART 130 

Credits: 3
Lecture: 2
Lab: 3

Course Content:
  1. Advanced HTML and CSS
  2. Introductory JavaScript
  3. Definitions of usability on the web
  4. User flows
  5. Heuristic evaluation 
  6. Usability testing
  7. Website planning and architecture
  8. Industry-standard software skills
  9. Application of formal principles and elements of design              
  10. Traditional, historical or contemporary examples of art
  11. Critique

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Develop websites using industry-standard frontend languages. (1-3, 8)
  2. Use industry-standard version control software and cloud applications. (1, 4, 8)
  3. Optimize user flow(s) for ease and efficiency. (1, 5, 6)
  4. Measure the usability of websites with heuristic evaluation. (1, 2, 5, 6)
  5. Design ADA accessible web interfaces. (1, 2, 4)
  6. Incorporate user feedback. (1, 2, 6)
  7. Identify the formal elements and principles of design. (7)
  8. Analyze the formal elements and principles of design. (7)
  9. Interpret the formal elements and principles of design. (7, 9)
  10. Recognize historical or contemporary examples of the fine arts or crafts. (7, 10)
  11. Use media-specific terminology to critique and evaluate design. (7, 11)

Required Assessment:
Critique and evaluation of art and artifacts.