CT 160 User Experience Design meets Mon/Wed 10:00 AM – 11:50 AM. There is a list of scheduled meetings for the semester below. Links to assignments will be added throughout the semester.
WEEK 1
1/28: Intro/Design Thinking, Essay #1
1/30: UX Fail Blog Post, Ps Tutorials, App Redesign
WEEK 2
2/4: UX Fail/App Redesign Critique
2/6: Ps Tutorials, Visual Design Principles, and Elements
WEEK 3
2/11: Ps Tutorials, Group Project #1 – User Personas
2/13: User Persona Critique, Presentation Preparation
WEEK 4
2/18: President’s Day – College is closed.
2/20: Group Project #1 Presentation
WEEK 5
2/25: Design Principle Lecture: Color, Typography, Mood Board, Design Challenge
2/27: Group Project #2 Intro
WEEK 6
3/4: Mood Board and Flyer Critique
3/6: Group Project #2 – User Research and Paper Prototypes and Card Sorting
WEEK 7
3/11: Designing User Flow for UX, UX Wireframe Templates
3/13: Photoshop Quiz, Intro to Sketch
WEEK 8
3/18: User Testing of Paper Prototypes and Card Sorting Exercise
3/20: Photoshop Quiz, User Testing and Design Prototypes in Sketch, Essay #2
WEEK 9
3/25: User Testing Final Prototypes
3/27: Quiz on UX terms, Work on Final Prototypes
WEEK 10
4/1: Midterm Final Presentation, Intro to Final Individual Project
4/3: Intro to Ai, Ai Tutorials
WEEK 11
4/8: Presentation of Final Project Concepts
4/10: Logo Design, Ai Tutorials
WEEK 12
4/15: Logo Design Critique, User Research/Card Sorting
4/17: Final Project Outline, Begin Building Paper Prototypes
WEEK 13
4/22: Spring Recess
4/24: Spring Recess
WEEK 14
4/29: User Testing of Paper Prototypes
5/1: Prototype in Sketch Design Day and Individual Meetings
WEEK 15
5/6: Rough Draft of Prototype User Testing
5/8: Rework the Prototype Based on User Testing in Class, Essay #3
WEEK 16
5/13: Rough Draft of Final Prototype Presentation Critique
5/15: Work on the Final Prototype in Sketch and InVision
WEEK 17
5/20: Final Presentations
5/22: Final Presentations
