Faculty Syllabus

Course Description

Instruction in image editing, design principles, prototyping and collaboration techniques with tools best suited to UX projects. 

Course Prerequisites

N/A 

Course Rationale/Objectives

Students will establish a foundation of essential skills needed to succeed in all courses offered in the UX Degree program. These skills include developing visual assets, identify visual design and UI standards, learning about universal design principles, and review best practices for effective team collaboration.

Required Textbooks and/or PDF’s

- Sketch 51

  Design the User Interface of Websites & Apps

  Noble Desktop, ISBN: 978-1-941333-28-0

- Adobe Creative Cloud 2018: Intro to InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator Book

  Learn the Essentials of Three Key Adobe Apps

  Noble Desktop, ISBN: 978-1-941333-49-5

Recommended textbooks for your journey

- Design Systems, Creating effective design languages for digital products

  Smashing Magazine

- Practical Design Discovery

  By Dan Brown - A Book Apart

Links to additional resources available in the Bb course.

Competency 1: Survey image editing tools used in UX design

Assignment 1: Tools discovery project.

Competency 2: Develop essential design skills with Sketch

Assignment 2: UI Design project (Sketch).

Competency 3: Develop essential design skills with Illustrator

Assignment 3: Design System project (Illustrator).

Competency 4: Integrate visual assets with UX prototyping tools in real-time

Assignment 4: Prototyping tools workflow project.

Competency 5: Demonstrate design and collaboration skills with a variety of UX Tools

Assignment 5: Design and Collaboration Project.

Ongoing: Exercises & quizzes, communications, group participation.

What you’ll learn to do by the end of this course:

- Discover the tools that are used in the industry to create visual assets for prototyping, and for collaboration.

- Learn about Design Systems and how they focus on the concepts and experiences of a design.

- Learn techniques for building UI elements.

- Create prototypes with industry standard tools.

- Learn the tools used in the industry for effective team collaboration.

What you’ll learn to do by the end of this discipline:

- Produce prototypes for software applications using industry standard methods, tools, and techniques.

- Apply a user-centered design process in the creation of software applications.

- Design and develop responsive layouts for multi-device, and multi-channel applications.

- Demonstrate proficiency in team collaboration.

- Demonstrate professionalism and proficiency, in the presentation, design, and delivery of a UX portfolio.