Faculty Syllabus

Course Description:

Instruction in product design and product management methods. Exploration of techniques used to lead an iterative design process within a business. Learn about office best practices, problem and product validation through research and the process for setting and tracking actionable metrics. Students will build public speaking and team leadership skills.

Course Pre-requisites:

UIUX 1376 Information Architecture

Textbook

• There is no required textbook, but there are required readings and videos
• Refer to Blackboard for all assigned readings

Online Resources

• All online resources will be shared via Blackboard
• (not required but available to you as a design student at ACC for $10/semester) An account with Adobe Creative Cloud. You can begin your account ID process here.
   

Tools

• MIRO app will be used (info in Blackboard orientation)
• Figma
• Sketchbook (any kind will do, I recommend a “dot grid” sketchbook though!)
• Dark pen and/or sharpie

Instruction in product design and product management methods. Exploration of techniques used to lead an iterative design process within a business. Learn about office best practices, problem and product validation through research and the process for setting and tracking actionable metrics. Students will build public speaking and team leadership skills.

In this course, we'll be exploring the intersection of design and business, also known as product design. We will re-consider everything you've learned up until this point in your design education from the perspective of:

• the business that employs you as a designer
• the other people with other jobs at the business that employs you
• the client that hired you for design services

We'll think about and practice how to do our job as UX Designers while considering both the end users AND the people that we work with and for.

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

1. Surveyed the role of businesses, organization structures, and product teams to the job of product design;
2. Analyzed and identified stages of a product life-cycle;
3. Practiced a process for utilizing heuristic evaluations to guide stakeholder conversations; 
4. Designed and applied metrics to measure success of product designs.