This elective course introduces essential skills and methods of user experience (UX) research, user interface (UI) and UX prototyping, user testing, and iteration to graduate students who are novices in this field of designing mobile applications. Students will learn practical methods and tools to create ideas for digital services and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered products that can contribute to realising values and impact in the real world. This course also investigates the fundamentals of the human experience, how effective and inclusive design principles can be applied to create meaningful UI/UX designs, human-AI interaction, and human-centric AI.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of human experience and how AI technology mediates human experience in positive ways.
• Understand various UX research methods and their relevant applications to explore and define problems.
• Apply UI/UX design methods to transfer research findings into personas, storyboards, wireframes, and AI-powered app specifications.
• Develop low-fidelity and hi-fidelity prototypes using appropriate UI/UX design tools.
• Conduct user testing on prototypes and apply the findings to prototype iterations.
• Present and demonstrate UI/UX that mediates liveability and human well-being in AI-powered apps.

Workload: 4 units (modular credits)

Note: This course is open to graduate students as well as Year 4 undergraduate students.