User experience design (UX) and user interface engineering (UI) is the design of user interfaces and visualization for computer, information, and data products focusing on maximizing usability and the user experience. Students complete a User experience (UX) design encompasses the holistic journey of the end-users interactions with a company, its services, and its products. UX designers focus on maximizing usability, accessibility, and the overall user experience. The course will cover the basic steps of the UX process starting with the discovery of user insights and leading to a problem definition based around personas, journey maps, and user stories. Students will then design an application that responds to this problem by creating low-fidelity wireframes and evolving them into high fidelity prototypes for user testing. Through this process, students will complete a series of activities using Figma or similar design tools. While this course involves developing design artifacts, the foundational learning outcome is focused on the process of creating a design that responds to the needs of real people as identified through user research.

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