Interactive Design - User Experience Major

This course is designed to develop technical writing and presentation skills to ensure workplace readiness. Students will learn how to evaluate communication situations, analyze documents, assess research sources and develop organizational skills to apply in their work. They will learn about and practice designing, formatting and writing a range of professional documents. Students will also develop confidence (through practice) in the development and delivery of effective and engaging presentations.

Building on previous knowledge in web design and development, learners will apply design and development techniques to responsive designs enabling access for all devices. Advanced web development frameworks will be used along with advanced scripting patterns. Emphasis will be placed on debugging client-side code and incorporating backwards compatibility with considerations for accessible design.

Pre-requisites:

• CPRG 219

After completing this course, students will have the technical and design skills needed to develop a simple web page. Students will understand the basics of computer scripting, and how to use a web scripting language to add functionality to a web page.

This course covers media production concepts that include the application of design theory and principles to intermediate projects. Traditional and digital drawing, typography, intermediate layout and intermediate photographic techniques will be explored. Digital production and design tools will be used.

Pre-requisites:

• DSGN 228

In this course, learners will develop the skills and understanding required to create user-centric designs. Learners will be able to identify good User Experience (UX) design in physical and digital mediums and its impact on users. Learners will also be able to describe how UI and UX design methods can be applied towards understanding the end user to create meaningful design solutions.

This is an introductory course covering design theory, the production of media, and the use of production hardware and software tools. Learners will become familiar with bitmap and vector graphics, digital photography, typography and print media tools and techniques.

In this course learners will explore basic animation theory, motion graphics, and audio and video concepts. Learners will use basic programming scripts to develop basic interactive presentations.

This course will focus on media authoring, intermediate audio and video production, as well as motion graphics.

Pre-requisites:

• MMDA 202

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to fundamental skills in critical thinking. You will develop skills in identifying fallacies, evaluating formal arguments, and diagnosing the appropriate form of argumentation in a variety of areas, including science and morality. Your skills in argumentation will be honed both in evaluating others’ arguments and in making your own.p>

Equivalents:

• PHIL 1011

This course will examine industry cases to illustrate how products are disrupting the market. Learners will explore the strategic and dynamic role a product manager plays in evolving a product over its lifecycle. Topics in logistics, planning, team formation, and product finding will also be explored.

In this course we will investigate the creation and manipulation of digital images by computer. The course will consist of theoretical material introducing the mathematics of images and imaging, as well as computer laboratory exercises designed to introduce methods of real-world data manipulation. Topics will include representation of two-dimensional data, time and frequency domain representations, filtering and enhancement, the Fourier transform, convolution, interpolation, colour images, and techniques for animation.

Pre-requisites:

• DSGN 221

Building on previous visual design concepts, this course covers the advanced topics in visual design and communications with emphasis on gravity, directionality, priority, tension, dynamic and static design, and negative space. Application of these topics are contextualized within the design industry through the integration of style guides, client presentations, design systems, product roadmaps, and development hand-off.

Pre-requisites:

• DSGN 221

This course is the first of two studio courses that will prepare you to create solutions to real-world industry problems within a design firm context. This course explores the creative design process through a series of composition, abstraction, and design projects. You will be introduced to a design process based on original thinking, in which you will synthesize collected information and draw conclusions based on established premises. The course will also demonstrate how to generate a number of design alternatives, and evaluate and select the most appropriate one.

Pre-requisites:

• COMM 238
• CPRG 218
• DSGN 221
• DSGN 227
• MMDA 203
• PHIL 241
• PMGT 200

This course is the second of two studio courses that will prepare you to create solutions to real-world industry problems within a design firm context. In the second part of Design Studio, students will explore more complex problems and create solutions and prototypes for presentation and iteration. Increasingly complex projects will provide a foundation for the development of a learner portfolio to support the transition into industry.

Pre-requisites:

• DSGN 306

In this course we will investigate the creation and manipulation of digital images by computer. The course will consist of theoretical material introducing the mathematics of images and imaging, as well as computer laboratory exercises designed to introduce methods of real-world data manipulation. Topics will include representation of two-dimensional data, time and frequency domain representations, filtering and enhancement, the Fourier transform, convolution, interpolation, colour images, and techniques for animation.

This course will use a framework to develop user interfaces for a variety of platforms. Students will learn how to apply animation, trigger events and structure usable functionality for various user interfaces.

This course will build on existing User Experience Design understanding and will allow understanding of advanced topics of relevance to UI and UX. This course will examine the methods and processes for designing, implementing, and testing usable and functional interfaces, with an eye to migration and crisis management. The dominant premise of the course overviews interfaces as accessible, comprehensive, aesthetically uniform, accurate, and oriented toward tasks users tend to perform.

Pre-requisites:

• DSGN 227

Learners will understand the core process of experience design and how to effectively evaluate your work with your users. You’ll learn fundamental methods of design research that will focus on effectively understanding people, the sequences of their actions, and the context in which they work.

In this capstone course, you will investigate issues across many different subject areas or domains of knowledge, may connect with community issues or problems, and create a solution. Your project should demonstrate the technical and professional skills learned in the program and beyond. You are expected to apply your creativity and problem-solving abilities to a real-world context.

Pre-requisites:

One of the following options:

• CPNT 300, CPSY 302, CPSY 350, INTP 301, ITSC 300
• CPRG 303, CPRG 304, CPRG 306, CPRG 307, CPSY 301
• ITSC 203, ITSC 301, ITSC 304, ITSC 307, ITSC 309
• FVDO 300, FVDO 302, FVDO 303, FVDO 304, FVDO 308
• MMDA 300, MMDA 303, MMDA 323, MMDA 324, MMDA 326

This cooperative work term course provides the opportunity to apply your classroom learning in a practical workplace setting, as well as gain valuable industry experience. This course is optional.