Responsive Design and User Experience (UX)
ART-40640
Responsive Design and User Experience (UX)
10 Weeks
Learn responsive web design (RWD) and user experience (UX) through this hands-on, project-based course. Learning-by-doing HTML and CSS tactics will enable you, the student, to design user experiences for various screen widths and heights, a skill critical for web developers, UX/UI designers and other design professionals. Build a responsive UX optimized site using HTML, CSS and Bootstrap. Utilizing a UX case study, including personas, task models, user journeys, content requirements, sitemaps and wireframes, you will design a responsive interface and conduct a usability test plan.
What You Will Learn:
- How to document your progress in a case study, including personas, task models, user journeys, content requirements, sitemaps, and wireframes.
- How to design a responsive interface, write, and conduct a usability test plan.
- The ability to create your own web page in basic HTML & CSS
- The art of writing code in HTML and CSS to make a web page responsive.
- How to identify and re-design websites that are not responsive.
- Summarize your project and document in a portfolio.
Prerequisite: User Experience Design II (ART-40642) or equivalent experience
Note: Students must have basic or intermediate knowledge of HTML and CSS. Students will need to have a recent version of Adobe Dreamweaver, Sublime Text, or other programmer's text editing program. While not required, online students are encouraged to utilize subscription to LinkedIn Learning as a supplement to the course.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email the academic department at unex-digital@ucsd.edu
Course Information
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This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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- No refunds after: 1/10/2025
- No UCSD parking permit required
- No visitors permitted
- Prerequisite required
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Instructor: Nicholas Adkins, B.S. Web Design and Interactive Media
10+ years of experience in graphic and web design
Nick Adkins has 10+ years of experience as a graphic designer, working specifically on print production, logo development and customer promotional packaging/marketing materials. Nick also has significant experience in professional web development.
