UX 60501 INTRODUCTION TO USER EXPERIENCE 3 Credit Hours
This course provides a comprehensive overview of User Experience (UX) from various perspectives, including the origins of UX as a professional discipline, the goals and values of UX within organizations, elements of UX practice and the agile development environment. It further introduces roles and contributions of specialization areas within UX, as well as the principles of user experience design. The introduction of Information Architecture includes hands-on practice. Students will develop and document their professional development goals.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60502 USER EXPERIENCE PROCESSES AND PRACTICE 3 Credit Hours
Students engage in a structured walkthrough of the major goals, responsibilities, and elements of User Experience (UX) in an agile environment. This course introduces important models of iterative design processes and the professional practices of research, design, prototyping, testing and team communication. Students will explore personal goals for specialization in UX.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Pre/corequisite: UX 60501.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60503 FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERACTION DESIGN 3 Credit Hours
This course offers students a comprehensive understanding of interaction design principles and their practical implementation. It covers the concept of prototyping, enabling students to create their own prototypes, and refine them based on peer feedback.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60504 ACCESSIBILITY AND UNIVERSAL DESIGN 3 Credit Hours
This course will provide user experience researchers and designers with the skills to evaluate technology accessibility, as well as an understanding of the principles of universal design and how they guide and influence the design of digital experiences
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60505 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LITERACY FOR THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONS 3 Credit Hours
This course provides an overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from foundational concepts like Large Language Models (LLMs) to practical application and governance. You will learn to apply AI in an information professional context to solve problems by developing AI literacy and skills to achieve desired outcomes. The curriculum covers risk assessment, including bias, hallucinations, data transparency and security, vetting information generated by AI tools, alongside integrating AI into workflows while considering the evolving role of human-in-the-loop oversight. Students will analyze ethical considerations, costs, and strategic decisions for deciding in what circumstances, how and with what guidelines to implement AI in organizations, including new opportunities for workforce development across information professions.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60506 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS IN USER EXPERIENCE 3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the rapidly evolving emergence and integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools into user experience design in agile product development environments. This course prepares students for UX careers in AI-enabled environments by providing foundational understanding of the evolving role of AI-enabled tools in the processes and practices of user experience design. Students explore emerging tools in hands-on learning projects, with the goal of understanding how the profession is adopting AI-enabled processes for discovery research, information architecture, interaction design, and evaluation. Students gain an understanding of end-to-end product development in AI-enabled agile environments. Implications for the profession are explored, and students will reflect on the emerging role of AI in their own professional goals and development.
Prerequisite: UX 60503; and graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60507 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN-INFORMATION INTERACTION 3 Credit Hours
This course examines how human cognitive processes and the design of digital products come together to create useful, meaningful products. Students explore six cognitive domains—perception, attention, memory, learning, decision heuristics and language processing—and their application in interaction design and information architecture. They consider the design implications of user research when examined through a cognitive lens. Through hands-on application of cognitive principles to simple design prototypes, students learn to diagnose design failures, predict user behavior and consider cognition in human-AI partnerships. The course bridges cognitive psychology theory with foundational design principles and practical design decisions, preparing students to create systems that support how people think, learn and decide.
Prerequisite: UX 60503; and graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60511 INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE FUNDAMENTALS 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to the fundamental concepts of information architecture (IA) and underlying cognitive processes of concept structure and information categorization. Students develop practical skills for content analysis and the design and evaluation of information architectures. Major topics include organization, navigation, labeling and design for finding.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60521 DATA-DRIVEN INTERACTION FUNDAMENTALS 3 Credit Hours
Modern digital products rely on a complex technical and informational infrastructure that affects interaction design and the user experience. This course prepares students for UX careers in data-driven environments by providing a foundational understanding of data, information infrastructure, including content management, information architecture and Artificial Intelligence, in the context of design for data-driven interaction. Implications of data-driven design for user privacy and data security are also discussed. Students will explore the future of user experience shaped by ML and AI and discuss the ethical dimensions of this evolution, including issues of fairness, accountability and transparency and will apply their learning in the design of a data-driven prototype.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60531 DISCOVERY RESEARCH FUNDAMENTALS 3 Credit Hours
In order to design a successful user experience, UX professionals seek to discover users’ needs, goals and tasks. This course covers discovery research methods such as interviews, surveys, diary studies and other methods applicable to the formative stages of the design process.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60541 USER EXPERIENCE EVALUATION FUNDAMENTALS 3 Credit Hours
Evaluating prototypes and products is a critical component of user experience design. This course covers qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods, such as heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthrough, usability testing, A/B testing and experimental design. Students will learn how to choose evaluation methods, how to conduct them and how to communicate the results of evaluations.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60691 SEMINAR IN USER EXPERIENCE 1-3 Credit Hours
(Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with UX 80691) Advanced research by students who are qualified to examine problems of certain special areas in user experience.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Seminar
Contact Hours: 1-3 other
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 60693 VARIABLE TITLE WORKSHOP IN USER EXPERIENCE 1-3 Credit Hours
(Repeatable for credit) Intensive examination of special topics of interest to those involved in user experience.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Workshop
Contact Hours: 1-3 other
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
UX 60792 ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP IN USER EXPERIENCE 2-3 Credit Hours
(Repeatable for credit) Supervised work experience in user experience design of a professional nature of not less than 100 clock hours (for 2 credit hours) or 150 clock hours (for 3 credit hours).
Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval.
Schedule Type: Practical Experience
Contact Hours: 6.33-10 other
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP
UX 61095 SPECIAL TOPICS IN USER EXPERIENCE 1-3 Credit Hours
(Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with UX 81095) Offered irregularly as resources and or opportunities permit. Topics could include current or emerging issues in user experience.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 61096 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN USER EXPERIENCE 1-3 Credit Hours
(Repeatable for credit). Individual investigation in areas not covered by the existing curriculum for master's level students.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval.
Schedule Type: Individual Investigation
Contact Hours: 3-9 other
Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP
UX 66199 THESIS I 2-6 Credit Hours
Thesis students must register for a total of 6 hours, 2 to 6 hours in a single semester distributed over several semesters if desired.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval.
Schedule Type: Masters Thesis
Contact Hours: 6-18 other
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP
UX 66299 THESIS II 2 Credit Hours
Thesis students must continue registration each semester until all degree requirements are met.
Prerequisite: UX 66199; and graduate standing; and special approval.
Schedule Type: Masters Thesis
Contact Hours: 6 other
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP
UX 80691 SEMINAR IN USER EXPERIENCE 1-3 Credit Hours
(Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with UX 60691) Advanced research by students who are qualified to examine problems of certain special areas in user experience.
Prerequisite: Doctoral standing.
Schedule Type: Seminar
Contact Hours: 1-3 other
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 81095 SPECIAL TOPICS IN USER EXPERIENCE 1-3 Credit Hours
(Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with UX 61095) Offered irregularly as resources and or opportunities permit. Topics could include current or emerging issues in user experience.
Prerequisite: Doctoral standing.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
UX 81096 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN USER EXPERIENCE 1-3 Credit Hours
(Repeatable for credit). Research or individual investigation in areas not covered by the existing curriculum for doctoral level students. Deliverables determined with instructor of record.
Prerequisite: Doctoral standing; and special approval.
Schedule Type: Individual Investigation
Contact Hours: 3-9 other
Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP