This course aims to provide students with the critical thinking and practical skills for creating effective and compelling interfaces. We will dissect what a compelling user experience is and discuss and apply design methods for creating one. Throughout this 14-week course we will examine a wide range of examples of interfaces with a focus on understanding the attributes of a successful interface and applying proven research, mapping and testing techniques. The class format will include lectures, case studies, student presentations, discussions of readings and in-class design exercises. The format is very hands-on with assignments that focus on problems that are typical of those a UX designer will encounter in the professional world.
Category Archives: IMA Electives (Legacy Structure – Art & Design)
Courses that count in IMA’s Art and Design category
Augmenting the Gallery (IMNY-UT 9001)
Wall labels, audio guides and informative maps are just some of the ways galleries and museums convey additional information about an art collection. How can we utilize new interactive mixed reality tools to design and deliver immersive experiences that breathe new life into an exhibit. Augmented and virtual reality are powerful tools for new media production and storytelling, but how can these tools serve to enhance our Wall labels, audio guides and informative maps are just some of the ways galleries and museums convey additional information about an art collection. How can we utilize new interactive mixed reality tools to design and deliver immersive experiences that breathe new life into an exhibit. Augmented and virtual reality are powerful tools for new media production and storytelling, but how can these tools serve to enhance our gallery experience without distracting from the power and importance of a pre-existing collection? This production course seeks to experiment with new ways to experience a museum collection through mixed reality. Topics covered include exhibition installation and curation, mixed reality production in Unity, mobile development for Augmented Reality.
Exhibition: Next (INTM-SHU 242)
Exhibition: Next class is an exploration and observation of the fields of exhibition design and museum studies. This class will explore how emerging and interactive technologies can be applied to museum and exhibition design to enhance visitors’ experiences. What is an exhibition in a museum of today and how should it be experienced? What is the role of a museum in contemporary society? How does it engage the audiences of tomorrow? The class discusses curatorial practices, various exhibition concepts and forms, museum visitor experience, and exhibitions’ social values. Students will visit and immerse themselves in many museums and exhibitions as a professional observer who will be asked to write reflections of their observations as an essay for each museum visit. Students will choose a research topic at the beginning of the class and they will start collecting materials, building objects, designing experiences, and writing a statement for their final exhibition based on this topic. Students’ design work will be frequently reviewed and given feedback by the instructor, classmates, and guest speakers/critics. After the midterm, the instructor will initiate a collaboration with a local museum or art space. Based on the specific circumstances, students will face a design challenge to propose an exhibition proposal or provide a creative solution to the partner organization. By the end of the course, students will install and present their work as a group art show in the student art gallery. Prerequisites: Interaction Lab or Creative Coding Lab Fulfillment: IMA Major Electives; IMB Major Interactive Media Elective.
Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 16 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
INTM-SHU 242-000 (19659)01/24/2022 – 05/13/2022 Wed1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Liu, Chang
User Experience Design (INTM-SHU 214)
User experience design (UXD, UED, or XD) is the process of enhancing user satisfaction with a product by improving its usability, accessibility, and desirability provided throughout the user’s interaction with a product. The class is designed for those who are passionate about creating user-centered experiences with interactive media. Students are encouraged to empathize with users, engaging them to make informed design choices from prototype right through to project completion. Prerequisites: None Fulfillment: IMA/IMB elective.
Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 16 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
INTM-SHU 214-000 (17634)01/24/2022 – 05/13/2022 Tue1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Qian, Tianran
Design Fundamentals (IMNY-UT 261)
This class aims to provide students with the critical thinking and practical skills to explore and communicate ideas visually. This foundational course will introduce the fundamental principles of design including typography, color, composition, branding and environmental design, and offer hands-on application of those principles through both in-class exercises and weekly assignments. The structure of the class is part lecture and learning of concepts, but also very hands-on with a weekly workshop studio session (the weekend class). We will use Adobe software and students can expect to spend $150 on consumable art supplies which they will use to craft their design projects.
Programming Design Systems (INTM-SHU 223)
Programming Design Systems is a course focused on the intersection between graphic design and code. Class time is divided between design topics like form, color, grid systems, and typography, and more computational topics like randomization, repetition, transformation and generative form. The students work to write software that abstract design theories into the code, and show the work in class for design critique. Weekly readings include relevant writings from the history of graphic design, articles from the history of computation, and everything in between. The class aims not only to teach the students how to create designs via code, but also to have something interesting to say about it. The course is based on the Programming Design Systems book, and more background info can be found in the book’s introduction. Prerequisite:Communications Lab
Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2019)
INTM-SHU 223-000 (18304)09/02/2019 – 12/13/2019 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by
Introduction to Web Design and Computer Principles (CSCI-UA 4)
Prerequisite: Three years of high school mathematics or equivalent. No prior computing experience is assumed. Students with computing experience should consult with the computer science department before registering. Offered every semester. 4 points. This course introduces students to both the practice of web design and the basic principles of computer science. The practice component of the course covers not only web design but also current graphics and software tools. The principles section includes an overview of hardware and software, the history of computers, and a discussion of the impact of computers and the internet.
Computer Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Design I for Non-Majors (ART-UE 401)
This course serves to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of typography. Typography forms the basis of our contemporary communication. Students will gain design abilities based on analogue techniques as well as digital software. The class explores letterform design & moves subsequently to typesetting exercises performed using the letterpress printer & computer. Compositions exploring typography as color, form, & image will be examined for visual impact as well as meaning. The history of typography is incorporated beginning with Guttenberg in the 1400’s through the classic designers of the 17th & 18th centuries, type-design through Russian Constructivism, the Bauhaus, & Modernism to contemporary digital type design.
Studio Art (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ART-UE 401-000 (12947)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed5:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ART-UE 401-000 (12474)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue5:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Verdoux, Jeanne
ART-UE 401-000 (12527)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu5:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Design II for Non-Majors (ART-UE 402)
This class acquaints the student with the fundamentals of Design by focusing primarily on layout, composition & color through use of the grid. The grid is a fundamental building block for publication design (print & digital), website design, & animation design. This class focuses primarily on Graphic Design but proposes basic concepts that can be extrapolated into other design fields. Classes will be client & solutions-based and will assume a professional career orientation. Additionally the class will provide a current overview of what’s happening in the contemporary design world through field trips, readings & presentations.
Studio Art (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ART-UE 402-000 (12509)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Stark, Jeff
ART-UE 402-000 (12442)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed5:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Sullivan, Jennifer M
ART-UE 402-000 (12948)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Fuller, Sean
Digital Art I for Non-Majors (ART-UE 303)
Assignments, critiques, & demonstrations related to the specific level on which the course is being given. The use of the computer to augment & expand conceptualization & expression has provided the artist with some of the most important new means for visual thinking since the Renaissance invention of perspective. Students learn how to use the computer as an extension of the visualization process & its specific applications in both two-dimensional & three-dimensional art.
Studio Art (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ART-UE 303-000 (12787)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Carideo, Gregory
ART-UE 303-000 (12041)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Khoshooee, Bahareh
ART-UE 303-000 (12945)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kleeman, Harry
ART-UE 303-000 (12946)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon5:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Calabrese, Nickolas
Intro to Digital Tools (OART-UT 823)
This course will explore the three main Adobe imaging products – Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Structured as a dynamic exploration of design ideas and the adobe landscape, we’ll look at and explore the traditional design tools and methods along with many of the changes and enhancements AI is bringing to the digital design toolkit. Through a series of short exercises we will look at graphic design and layout using Illustrator and InDesign adding the image enhancement techniques in Photoshop. In the short exercises we’ll look at basic design concepts using typography, shapes and images to create layouts that are clear, simple and intuitive. More complex exercises will challenge your abilities to use images and typography to best express your goals in a variety of formats. You’ll also complete a small project of your own for the end of the class. Class time will be divided between work in class sessions, lectures, and feedback/critique sessions. This course is not intended to completely cover the software but will give you an understanding of which digital tool will best deliver your fresh ideas to the page. The majority of the class focuses on creating images, logos, books and magazines, but we cover the options of converting for screen output. We’ll incorporate some Adobe apps to augment the desktop and tablet applications. Depending on schedules, we will visit a gallery or museum during the semester. Students should have access to the Adobe Creative Suite through the NYU license.
Visual Foundation Studio (DM-UY 1123)
Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Integrated Digital Media (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
User Experience Design (UX) (DM-UY 2213)
From interacting with the latest device to cogently communicating complex data, user experience design (UX) is a discipline given increased prominence by the inescapable human relationship with technology. We will cover the UX design process as it relates to interactive interfaces found in websites, mobile apps, hardware, and events.
Integrated Digital Media (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
DM-UY 2213-000 (17644)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Van-Every, Karen
Photography and Words (DM-UY 3183)
Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Integrated Digital Media (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks