Duration
2 days
Overview
This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design and articulate meaning using color, type, and imagery is essential to making interfaces function clearly and seamlessly. Through a series of lectures and visual exercises, you will focus on the many individual elements and components that make up the skillset of an interface designer. By the end of this course, you will be able to describe the key formal elements of clear, consistent, and intuitive UI design, and apply your learned skills to the design of a static screen-based interface.
This is the first course in the UI/UX Design Specialization, which brings a design-centric approach to user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective, rather than on one focused on marketing or programming alone.
These courses are ideal for anyone with some experience in graphic or visual design and who would like to build their skill set in UI or UX for app and web design. It would also be ideal for anyone with experience in front- or back-end web development or human-computer interaction and want to sharpen their visual design and analysis skills for UI or UX.
Course Outline
- Course and Specialization Overview
- What IS a user interface anyway?
- What is a User Interface?
- The Relationship Between UI and UX
- Roles in UI/UX
- A Brief Historical Overview of Interface Design
- Interface Conventions: Theory
- Interface Conventions: Application
- Template vs Content
- Aesthetics & Functionality
- Formal Elements of Interface Design
- Design Before Design
- Look and Feel
- Language as a design tool
- Color and Shape
- Imagery
- Typography
- Icons
- Active Elements of Interface Design
- Introduction to Week
- Static to Active
- Functionality
- Speed and Style
- Composition and Structure
- Buttons
- Not Buttons
- States and Changes
- Composing the Elements of Interface Design
- Invisible Complexity: Making a Whole from Many Parts
- Hierarchy of Content
- Conventions and Expectations
- Structure and Grids
- Platforms and Screen Sizes
- Putting it All Together: Slice 'n' Dice
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.