Program Overview

University Programs

The university offers a range of programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education options.

Academic Pillars

The university is organized into several academic pillars, including:

• ASD: Architecture and Sustainable Design
• DAI: Design and Artificial Intelligence
• EPD: Engineering Product Development
• ESD: Engineering Systems and Design
• HASS: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• ISTD: Information Systems Technology and Design
• SMT: Science, Mathematics and Technology

Courses

One of the courses offered is:

50.006 User Interface Design and Implementation

The course introduces the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, and Usability. It covers usability principles, design guidelines, and heuristics, as well as user-centered design, usability engineering, and evaluation techniques.

Prerequisites

• 10.009 The Digital World (For AY2019)
• 10.014 Computational Thinking for Design (For AY2020 to AY2024)
• 10.025 Computational Thinking for Design (For AY2025 and subsequent batches)

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the concept of usability, design principles, guidelines, heuristics, and other fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction.
2. Analyze a set of requirements in terms of its user-interface implications.
3. Develop a usage scenario for a given set of user requirements and available technologies.
4. Construct a user-interaction strategy for a given problem.
5. Sketch a series of user-interfaces for a given use scenario.
6. Implement a designed user-interface to demonstrate its functionality and usability.
7. Employ a set of usability engineering methods to refine a designed user-interface.
8. Evaluate a user-interface using suitable evaluation methodology.

Measurable Outcomes

1. Apply design principles, guidelines, and heuristics to create a user-interaction strategy that solves a real-world problem.
2. Design a usable and compelling user-interface given a set of requirements and available technologies.
3. Communicate effectively the designed user-interface to relevant stakeholders using design rationale and a sketching/presentation tool in an informed, reasonable, and persuasive way.
4. Conduct an evaluation of a user-interface by employing a series of evaluation methods available in usability engineering.

Topics Covered

• User classification and user-centered design
• Information visualization and interactivity
• Usability principles and guidelines, UI prototyping tools
• Anthropomorphism and framing the interaction strategies; metaphor
• Personal and social impact of technology and experience design; ethical issues of interaction design
• Usability evaluation techniques

Textbook(s) and/or Other Required Material

• Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 5th ed. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2010.
• David Benyon, Designing Interactive Systems: A Comprehensive Guide to HCI, UX and Interaction Design, 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2013.
• Jennifer Preece et al., Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, 3rd ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering, 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: Morgan-Kaufmann, 1993.
• Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano, Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques. New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Course Instructor(s)

• Prof Kenny Choo

Research and Innovation

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DesignÀAI Research

• Research news
• Research centers
• Research programs and fellowship

DesignÀAI Innovation

• Innovation ecosystem
• Innovation showcase
• Innovation for community
• Innovation in education

Admissions

The university offers various programs for admission, including:

• Undergraduate
• Graduate
• Continuing Education (SUTD Academy)
• 42 Singapore

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• Student experience
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