course_info:cis_2170
This course is a practical introduction to the area of user interface construction. Topics include user interface components and their application, best practices for user interface design, approaches to prototyping, and techniques for assessing interface suitability.
Skills and knowledge students should have prior to beginning the course:
- Topics covered in CIS1500 or CIS1200
Course Topics:
- User interfaces in the real world
- Screen design & UI history
- Characteristics of WIMP interfaces
- Design principles
- Accessibility & AODA
- UI components
- Prototyping
- Use cases and users
- Personas and scenarios
- User centered design
- User experience
- Accessibility experience
- Usability & usability testing
- Evaluation of user interfaces
- Design for hardware
Course Format:
- Lecture format: Lecture, slides, discussion, and activities
- Online materials location and format: Moodle
- Lab or tutorial format and expectations: Active learning labs, graded by TA
Method of evaluation:
- Number of Assignments: 4
- Number of Graded Labs: 10
- Number of Quizzes: 10
- Formal Midterm? No
- Course project? No
- Final Exam? Yes
- Group work? Yes
- mostly programming assignments? No
- Written documents? Yes
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