User Experience (UX) Design

With a focus on a more diverse, equitable and inclusive mobile user experience, students will learn current technologies and production tools used for the mobile user interface design and prototyping. Students will learn to apply design principles and ethical considerations to the decision-making process to design the best user experience for mobile digital products.

 
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Learning Outcomes in this course

  • Learn to apply collaborative methods to graphic communication projects

  • Learn about and apply ethnographic research methods to understand an end-user's needs in product design

  • Conceptualize and create user-centered mobile digital products

  • Build user interfaces that aim to enhance the user experience of mobile digital products.

 
 
 

When

Session One
June 30 - July 12, 2024

Tuition

On-Campus Residential
$5,298 USD

 

Proposed Activities

  • Students will tour the University Graphic System (UGS) - the in-house student-run print business. Students will have the opportunities to meet and interact with UGS managers (junior or senior GrC students) and see the print and finishing equipment in operation and workflow.

  • Students will spend a majority of their time working in the Cal Poly labs working on their hands-on project design.

 

Instructor

Xiaoying Rong

Dr. Xiaoying Rong earned her Bachelor of Engineering from Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, a Master of Business Administration from Beijing Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Printing from Western Michigan University. She is currently teaching printed electronics and product development, specialty printing technologies, and consumer packaging at Cal Poly SLO.

Her teaching and research interests are interactive tangible products development, design for smart packaging, and marketing applications. Also, technologies for manufacturing printed, flexible, hybrid electronics; specialty imaging technologies, materials for packaging and graphic communication products, conventional and digital printing technology, and color management. Xiaoying is also currently the PR person for a local Chinese association, managing their website, social media, and marketing materials.

She considers herself an engineer with a decent amount of creativity, with a passion to design physical products that are both aesthetic and functional. Her experiences focus more on technology, material, and production aspects of graphic communication.

 

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