Students may select a nine credit-hour or a 12 credit hour option. Short courses are numbered at the 700 level. A maximum of six credit hours of short courses may be counted toward certificate completion. An introduction to methods available for conducting research and usability testing. Students will learn how to plan and conduct tests that measure the efficiency and effectiveness of a design or product.
Course work includes identifying and testing tasks, interpreting data and reporting findings.
528 Document Design An investigation of the theory and practice of document and information design as applied to paper media. This course focuses on planning the design and development of documents and evaluating the document for a variety of applications, including manuals, instructional design, brochures, newsletters, graphics and tables. The course highlights professional standards for the presentation of prose exposition, tables and graphic materials, as well as the means for insuring satisfaction of those standards. An exploration of the theory and practice of structuring information in on-line environments. This course will enable students to analyze styles of graphical user interfaces for a variety of applications and to customize their own design projects.