This course is designed for anyone who creates or manages websites and needs to improve their structure to make them more user friendly. Many sites struggle with confusing navigation or features that don’t work well, and this class focuses on fixing those issues. As technology changes, designing with the user experience in mind is more important than ever. This course will help you build the skills needed to stay ahead and create sites that work better for the people who use them.

This course will provide you with the basic methodology, knowledge, and tools required to approach a website design or application building project with the principles of User-Centered Design and Usability. In addition, you will learn about components to build into your design making your website user friendly and ADA compliant.

This is the seventh recommended class in the Graphic Design Certificate.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Develop an idea through a user-centered process.
• Formulate a foundation in user-centered design, usability, information visualization, and concepts of interactive design including web design.
• Construct web page design through an understanding of the users, business, technology, and compliance.
• Recognize the common considerations for navigation, presentation, writing, and interaction by using important testing and research methods.
• Develop usability testing and reporting then tweak and refine websites to keep users on the site.
• Explore and use techniques for designing accessible websites that are ADA compliant.

Prerequisites:

Experience creating or maintaining websites or experience building applications.

Books:

Don’t Make me Think Revisited, ISBN-10: 0321965515

ISBN-13: 978-0321965516
Course reference information can be found here.

Intended Audience:

Current or prospective web designers, editors, or developers.

Course Length:

2 days (14 hours)