User Interface and User Experience Design syllabus

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• What is UI/UX Design: Importance of User-Centric Design, Goals of User Interface Design , Design Thinking Process, Core Principles, Role of UX in Product Development Lifecycle, mental and conceptual model.
• Usability Design Principles: 4 Design Principles, Schneiderman’s Golden Rules, Gestalt Principles of Design, Visual Design Principles, Form versus Function, Metaphors, Idioms and Affordances in UI design, User Interface Elements: Input Controls, Navigation Components, Information Components, Containers User Research: Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, Behavioral and Attitudinal User Research, Use of Personas, User Stories and Scenarios, Affinity Mapping.
• Case Study: A good and a bad User Interface Design

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• Usability Engineering: Concept of usability, usability principles, benefits of usability for users and organizations, internationalization and localization, human errors and their impact on usability.
• Usability Evaluation: Human information processing and memory, Fitts’s Law and Hick’s Law, usability inspection methods such as Heuristic Evaluation and Cognitive Walkthrough, user studies and field studies.
• Usability Testing: Planning and conducting usability testing, Think-Aloud testing, A/B testing, use of heatmaps, and basic UX metrics for evaluating user experience.
• UX Design Foundations: Ideation and research in UX design, content and interaction mapping, paper prototyping, introduction to wireframes and interface layout, applying Nielsen’s usability heuristics, refining UI based on user feedback.

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• User-centric design - The UX Phases - Waterfall vs. Agile - Web vs. App.
• Determining Strategy: User Research - Inspiration - Analytics - User Needs and Client Needs - Target Audience - What is in and What is Out: Outlining Scope - Content and Functionality.
• The Sitemap: Introduction to Sitemaps - Information Architecture - Sitemap Concerns - annotated process - Elements - Treejack Introduction - Treejack Analysis.

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• Introduction to wireframes, purpose and importance in UX design, low-fidelity vs high-fidelity wireframes, sketching interfaces, layout grids, design hierarchy, and responsive layouts.
• Prototyping Concepts: Introduction to prototypes, types of prototypes (paper prototypes, digital prototypes, interactive prototypes), fidelity levels, advantages of prototyping in UX design, iterative design process.
• Interaction Design: Principles of interaction design, micro-interactions, feedback mechanisms, navigation flows, usability considerations in interaction design, designing intuitive interfaces.
• UI Design Tools: Introduction to modern UI/UX design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, and InVision.
• Creating interactive prototypes, collaborative design workflows, design handoff to developers.
• Design Documentation: User flow diagrams, storyboards, design specifications, and design system basics.

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• Emerging technologies in UX Design: Voice UI, Touchless gesture control, Intelligent UX, Conversational UX, Immersive Media and Fluid UX Designing for Web and Mobile Interfaces, IoT applications, Industry Specific UX Design: FinTech, Education, Health Care, E-commerce and Industrial Websites, designing for Wearable Devices, designing for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality, Tomorrow’s challenges in UX design.