UX Design

  • Credits: 4
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 0P + 2C
  • Semester: winter
  • Faculty of Economic Informatics

Teachers

Included in study programs

Information Management

Teaching results

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:
A. understand the firm, the needs of internal (intra-firm) target groups and external target groups
B. know how to search for these needs, name them, set appropriate assignments, and design and create user-friendly products and services, both physical and digital, to meet the needs of the firm derived from the needs of the users.
C. define the rules for writing UX
D. students will understand the basic principles of UX research and be able to define a research project
E. Students will be able to create and test a prototype and deliver a quality assignment to technical specialists.

Indicative content

1. Basic principles of UX design;
2. Relationship between UX and AI, interdependence between UX and AX,BX,CX;
3. Design and implementation of UX research;
4. The most common mistakes and shortcomings of UX;
5. Advanced UX design
6. Creating low-fidelity wireframe
7. Using psychology in UX design
8. Basics of interaction design
9. Working with design patterns
10. Design of user interfaces
11. Flow Modeling application
12. Using Natural mapping
13. Strategies to improve UX.

Support literature

1. Marsh J.: UX pro začátečníky. Zoner Press, 2019, ISBN 9788074133978
2. Krupa M.: E-Shop od nápadu po úspech, Wolters Kluwer, 2018, ISBN 9788081688621
3. Norman, D. A.(1990) The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
4. Norman, D. A (2005). Emotional Design. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-05136-7.
5. Unger, R – Chandler, C. (2012 )A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making, New Rider, Berkeley
6. Levy, J. (2021) UX Strategy: Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions, O´Reilly

Requirements to complete the course

Final exam - written form, 60% (passing the exam means obtaining a minimum of 51% of the exam grade). The exam consists of two parts: verification of theoretical knowledge (test with different types of questions). The theoretical part verifies the level of learning outcomes A,B,D. Verification of practical skills, where the level of learning achievement C,E is verified.
Exercises
- work in small teams: elaboration and presentation of the seminar topic 20%, work on the final project and its defence 20%
Total: 40%
The assessment of independent work and the assessment of work in teams develops and assesses the following learning outcomes C, E.

Student workload

Total study load (in hours):
104 hrs (participation in seminars 26 hrs, preparation for seminars 13 hrs, elaboration of a semester project 52 hrs, preparation for continuous tests 13 hrs)

Language whose command is required to complete the course

slovak

Date of approval: 10.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 18.05.2022