Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Online | ||
| Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby | N/A |
Unit description
Considers ways to understand user needs, goals and tasks. This unit deals with analysis methods for human-centred design of information-rich user interfaces and user experiences. Covers methods applicable to formative and summative testing and evaluation. Students learn to extract and analyse findings into audience segments, personas and scenarios that model user behaviour.
Unit content
Topic 1: Review of user-centred design and user acceptance
Topic 2: Requirements analysis and design thinking
Topic 3: Identification and application of personas; user research
Topic 4: UX documentation including journey mapping
Topic 5: User evaluation methods
Topic 6: Analysis of evaluation
Topic 7: Choosing an appropriate software framework
Topic 8: Product testing - testing plan, test cases
Topic 9: Adapting to changes in requirements
Topic 10: Analysis of testing plans and results
Topic 11: User error - who is to blame?
Topic 12: Project review - analysis and critique
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | discuss methods of evaluation of a user interface design including aesthetics, usability and cultural issues. |
| 2 | perform a usability evaluation for an existing software application |
| 3 | measure and analyse usability performance and preference metrics: learning, task time, task completion and user satisfaction. |
| 4 | recommend adaptions to user interface designs based upon the results of a usability test, including adaptions based on improved and/or emerging technologies |
| 5 | discuss specialised factors of user interface designs, including emerging technologies, to reflect users' characteristics to increase effectiveness and the user experience |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- discuss methods of evaluation of a user interface design including aesthetics, usability and cultural issues.
- perform a usability evaluation for an existing software application
- measure and analyse usability performance and preference metrics: learning, task time, task completion and user satisfaction.
- recommend adaptions to user interface designs based upon the results of a usability test, including adaptions based on improved and/or emerging technologies
- discuss specialised factors of user interface designs, including emerging technologies, to reflect users' characteristics to increase effectiveness and the user experience
Prescribed texts
- Benyon, D, 2019, Designing User Experience, 4th edn, Pearson Education Limited, London. ISBN: 978-1-292-15551-7 (print), 978-1-292-15552-4 (PDF), 978-1-292-15553-1 (ePub).
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Report | 25% |
| Project | 35% |
| Report | 40% |
| Teaching method |
| Workshop on-site |
| Assessment | |
| Report | 25% |
| Project | 35% |
| Report | 40% |
Fee information
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