User Experience Design (BS)

DePaul University

The BS in User Experience Design prepares students for the expanding fields of user experience and interaction design. The program integrates visual design, code, and user research. Concepts and skills involved include design principles, prototyping, and usability testing. Students will learn how to analyze, design, develop and evaluate effective computer interfaces to provide better user experiences.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Plan and conduct a variety of user research methods for developing empathy, understanding problems, and identifying user needs and design opportunities.
• Evaluate, critique, create, and rationalize interfaces with respect to visual design principles, affordances, interaction design principles, and interaction design patterns.
• Transform user research and apply design principles and patterns to create wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and experiences that simulate interfaces and have enough functionality for usability testing with participants.
• Read, comprehend, and write code relevant to contemporary web and mobile devices at a basic level, use code to create rough prototypes, and research, evaluate, and rationalize design decisions as they relate to code.
• Effectively communicate user research findings, design concepts, and design rationale in written and verbal forms.

• Development Concentration
• Design Concentration