NMDS
5427

Media Practices: User Experience Design & Prototyping

Schools of Public Engagement: Media

Non-Liberal Arts
Undergraduate Course
Graduate Course
Degree Students
UserExperienceDesign&Prototype
Spring 2025
Taught By: Ramu Dhara
Section: A

CRN: 13177

Credits: 3

User Experience (UX) design is a process that helps drive meaningful engagement between end users and interactive media experiences. Examples can range from product applications to advancing solutions for non-profit missions. Leveraging Human-centered design (HCD) methodologies for problem-solving design challenges, this course guides students through inspiration and ideation to rapid prototyping as they develop portfolio-ready digital projects. The course prepares students with core professional skills from qualitative research methods to project/product management for UX interaction design. Projects prompt students to develop UX/insights, information architectures, user/task flows, low/high fidelity wireframes, and design systems/digital assets for the design to tech handovers. Using industry standard software, students structure their projects to solve real-world design challenges. Instruction will include fundamental and intermediate-level skills for rapid and code free prototyping using tools such as Figma/Adobe XD. Students should have prior production experience (digital, audio, or video) and will be introduced to a few advanced skills that they are encouraged to explore in their projects. Pre-Requisite: Media Design (NMDS 5008) or instructor permission. Media Studies courses are open to all graduate students. Undergraduate Juniors and Seniors with permission from the instructor and BA/MA Media studies students should email mediastudiesadvising@newschool.edu for access.

College: Schools of Public Engagement (NS)

Department: Media (MED)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Studio (S)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 15

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 9:04am EDT 10/8/2024