{"id":749,"date":"2022-08-25T21:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp_dev\/?p=749"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:00:17","slug":"topics-in-itp-user-experience-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/topics-in-itp-user-experience-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Topics in ITP: User Experience Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"758\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UXDesign.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UXDesign.png 758w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UXDesign-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Katherine Dillon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This 2-pt 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,&nbsp;apply proven research&nbsp;techniques for approaching and defining UX problems and apply design frameworks including mapping and testing techniques. The class format will include lectures, discussion, in-class design exercises and a final project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 1: what is UX<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 2: inclusive research methods<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 3: frameworks for defining a problem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 4: understanding behavior and motivation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 5: mapping flow and visual strategies, final project intro&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 6: testing methods and future UX<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 7: final projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 2-pt 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,\u00a0apply proven research\u00a0techniques for approaching and defining UX problems and apply design frameworks including mapping and testing techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","category-tier-2-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/6769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}