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(F-1 students are not eligible for Advanced Certificate programs)
This twelve-credit advanced certificate program provides the candidate with a solid foundation in user experience and user interface design. A core design concept, UX/UI design features human-centered design thinking – an innovative approach that encourages designers of all types to truly understand users, while enhancing new products, services, systems, processes, and experiences. The advanced certificate offers a direct hands-on approach to the relationship between interactive media and human perception through ideation, research and prototyping techniques, always putting the end user at the center of the experience and stressing the importance of aesthetics and accessibility in a design system. As a result, the candidate develops a basic, yet professional, portfolio of work without needing to commit to earning a master’s degree.
Educational and career objectives
The candidate will be able to:
- Understand and apply the basic principles of UX/UI design
- Engage in successful customer and competition research
- Prototype a variety of design ideas
- Present design ideas in group settings
- Enter the Touro masters level design program with 12 graduate credits
- Compete successfully for entry level design positions
Semester 1
WMMN 609
Foundation and History of Design
- This course explores the principles and elements
of visual design, including the basic vocabulary of
visual forms, the various materials used in the
field, related technical and computer skills, and
important creative problem-solving strategies. A
variety of creative projects are designed to
challenge students to demonstrate their visual
creative skills, their grasp of visual literacy, and
their growing technical competence. Students
submit their work to class critiques that assess
their cumulative understanding of the concepts
and skills taught.
3 Credits WMMN 600
Design Thinking and Methodology
- In this introductory course in human-centered
design thinking, students learn new innovative
approaches to truly understand users and
enhance new products, services, systems,
processes, and experiences. Through hands-on
projects, students learn media design
fundamentals through ideation, research, and
prototyping techniques, always putting the user as
the center of the experience. At the end of the
course, students will be able to create and present
a final project that reflects these best practices
and meaningful insights from research and
problem solving.
Prerequisite: MSIN 609
3 Credits WMMN 601
UX/UI Design Principles
- This hands-on course explores the relationship
between interactive media and human perception,
stressing the importance of aesthetics and
accessibility in a design system. As such, it is both
an investigation of visual and conceptual design
issues in software interfaces, and a context for
technical research and critical evaluation. Using
style guides, students create interactive projects
that explore web, smart phone, tablet, and kiosk
navigation, information architecture, user
accessibility, metaphor, and user interaction.
Students are assessed on the basis of class
participation and on the merits of their effectivelv
designed portfolio projects. The course also helps
students evaluate career options in the field.
3 Credits WMMN 614
Interactive Design for Mobile
- In this mobile prototyping course, students are
first introduced to mobile interactive concepts for
both the iOS and Android platforms and learn how
to create basic to high-end prototvpes for a mobile
app. Students either design a mobile app from
scratch or select a mobile app in need of a
redesign and present their prototype as a final
project for a class critique.
3 Credits