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Introduction to Web/User Interface Design and Designing User Experiences (WDCE 9025)

Date: Tuesdays, April 16, 2024 - June 18, 2024

Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Cost: $995

Course delivery: Online, live virtual

Description

Develop an understanding of the principles behind and skills in the practice of user interface (UI) design. For both students with no design experience and those with a small amount of design experience. Students will learn to design user experiences that meet usability, accessibility, and intellectual property standards for digital experiences that support community information resource needs.

Expected Learning outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate the fundamentals of UI design
• Evaluate digital experiences for information organization, content representation, design best practices, and site navigation.
• Apply basic UI design theories and practices
• Justify the importance of UI design for information professionals.

Course Structure

This is an introductory course, and as such, the full scope of this topic is presented. You will receive a lot of material, but you are not being tested on it. Instead, you are being challenged to absorb as much as you can for your own understanding and apply the material to the projects you’ll be doing.

Software

For this course you will need:

• Access to either a Mac or a PC
• Figma
• Google Fonts
• Microsoft Teams (this will be used for both in and out-of-class communication)
• Zoom

Projects:

Design 5 weekly assignments

Design 1 final project

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Introduction to Front-end Web/User Interface Development (WDCE 9045)

Date: Fall 2024

Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Cost: $995

Course delivery: Online, live virtual

Description

Develop an understanding of the principles behind and skills in the practice of user interface (UI) development. For both students with no front-end development experience and those with a small amount of development experience. Students will learn to develop user experiences that meet usability, accessibility, and intellectual property standards for digital experiences that support community information resource needs.

Expected Learning outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate the fundamentals of front-end development (HTML/SCSS/CSS)
• Understand basic front-end development concepts such as HTML structure and CSS stylings.
• Write semantically correct HTML and SCSS/CSS
• Identify problems and validate HTML errors
• Properly set up your development folder structure
• Customize your IDE

Course Structure

This is an introductory course, and as such, the full scope of this topic is presented. You will receive a lot of material, but you are not being tested on it. Instead, you are being challenged to absorb as much as you can for your own understanding and apply the material to the projects, you’ll be doing which are a continuation of Course 1

Software

For this course you will need:

• Access to either a Mac or a PC
• Figma
• Google Fonts
• Microsoft Teams (this will be used for both in and out-of-class communication)
• Zoom
• VS Code
• Codekit / Prepros
• Web Server

Projects:

Develop 5 weekly assignments

Develop 1 final project

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Introduction to Front-end Web/User Interface Enhancements (WDCE 9065)

Date: Winter 2025

Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Cost: $995

Course delivery: Online, live virtual

Description

Develop an understanding of the principles behind and skills in the practice of user interface (UI) enhancements. For both students with no front-end development experience and those with a small amount of development experience. Students will learn to develop enhanced user experiences that meet useability, accessibility, and intellectual property standards for digital experiences that support community information resource needs. Students will learn how to build custom navigations and apply UI animations to enrich the user experience.

Expected Learning outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate the fundamentals of front-end development (JavaScript)
• Understand basic front-end development concepts such as variables, loops, functions/methods
• How to properly install and use an external JavaScript library.
• Identify coding problems, and propose solutions to those problems

Course Structure

This is an introductory course, and as such, the full scope of this topic is presented. You will receive a lot of material, but you are not being tested on it. Instead, you are being challenged to absorb as much as you can for your own understanding and apply the material to the projects, you’ll be doing which are a continuation of Course 2.

Software

For this course you will need:

• Access to either a Mac or a PC
• Figma
• Google Fonts
• Microsoft Teams (this will be used for both in and out-of-class communication)
• Zoom
• VS Code
• Codekit / Prepros
• Web Server
• Greensock

Projects:

Enhance 5 weekly assignments

Enhance 1 final project (custom navigation, UI animations)

Register Now