DESMA 141
Web Design and User Interface and Experience
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From the registrar's catalog
Studio, six hours. Requisites: courses 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, and 101 or 104. Online interaction today focuses on information through living, social platforms. Study goes beyond an average user’s perspective to critically examine the web through historical, political, and social lenses. Students are encouraged to holistically approach the web and its constituent code as a living kit of parts to be harnessed in novel and innovative ways. Examination of leading concepts of people-centered interactive design. User interface (UI) designers are focused on the design of the tool, while user interface (UX) designers are focused on a person’s experience of that tool. As digital technology industries rapidly alter ways of doing and thinking, design can amplify, shift, comment on, and/or criticize these changes. The role of designers today is to style and shape content, extracting information from abstract datasets, writing scenarios, and creating systems, all with a critical eye. Students are trained to research, analyze, prototype, and develop design concepts for digital media for distinct social and cultural contexts. Letter grading.
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