User Experience Design

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this major, students should be able to demonstrate:

• Problem Analysis: Apply fundamental principles of analysis to identify the needs and opportunities presented in areas of human life that might be addressed through the application of computing, informatics, and digital media.
• Design Inquiry: Apply design thinking in an iterative and agile manner to abstract and conceptualise problem and solution models within a range of domains, with a special focus on digital artefacts such as web-based media, mobile media, and interactive media.
• Knowledge of Digital Technologies: Knowledge of the fundamentals of digital technology including algorithmic, data-oriented, and web-based techniques, with an understanding of how they are applied in a range of areas.
• Design and Development of Solutions: Design, use and evaluate digital-media-based solutions against a specified set of needs of various stakeholders within a range of domains.
• Creative Problem Solving: Demonstrate a creative problem-solving process through the research, development, evaluation, and execution of various forms of digital technology.
• Tools: Create, select, or adapt modern tools and techniques to solve complex digital design problems, and understand their limitations.
• Individual and Team Work: Work effectively as an individual and as part of a team including those that span multi-disciplinary settings.
• Communication: Communicate clearly and effectively both within and outside the technological community about complex activities using written and oral communication.
• Computing Professionalism and Society: Understand, assess and describe the role of computing systems within society, and how computing systems impact health, safety, legal, and cultural issues.
• Ethics: Understand and comply with the relevant ethics, responsibilities, and norms of professional computing practice.
• Life-long Learning: Recognise the need to continually develop and improve the above attributes as a computing professional.