Syllabus

Introduction to Interaction Design. Concepts of Interaction, Task analysis, design, Fitness, Information age, Controls and displays, Feedback, Affordances, Bits and atoms
Human information processing Attention Skilled and unskilled operations Vigilance Feedback Long term memory Encoding Chunking Network theory of memory Transfer of learning Mental models Task performance
Usability engineering Usability testing Fitt’s Law, Hick Hyman Law Norman’s principles Nielsen’s heuristics Contextual inquiry Work models Cultural probes Brainstorming Affinity diagrams Card sorting Personas Scenarios Story boards Story maps Cognitive and Pluralistic walkthrough
Consumer experience Consumer touchpoints Consumer journey map Experience map Service blueprint Empathy map
Special Topics

To develop awareness of different aspects of user experience design as a part of professional design.

To develop sound fundamentals of user experience design among students for application purposes..

1. Students feel confident in terms of fundamentals of interaction design, usability and UX design.
2. Students are ready to take up any real world problem as interaction/UX designers.

R.S. Bridger (2017), Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics, Taylor & Francis

David Benyon (2019), Designing User Experience: A guide to HCI, UX and interaction design, Pearson

W. O Galitz (2007), The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques, Wiley

Scott Faranello (2016), Practical UX Design, Packt Publishing Limited

International Conference on Research into Design

Ergonomics in Design, Applied Ergonomics