Introducing User-Centered Design


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
To identify the principles and benefits of user-centered design and to determine a practical approach to promoting user-centered design methodology in organizations

Target Audience
This path is targeted primarily at software architects and project managers working on high–level design. This path will also target programmers and developers looking to improve their skills in user–centered software design.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Introducing User-Centered Design

  • identify the goals of usability and User-Centered Design.
  • identify the main trends in the evolution of human-computer interaction and user interface design, and the main challenges facing User-Centered Design.
  • identify the main aspects of a UCD culture and the criteria for success in its development in an organization.
  • determine why an organization should adopt a User-Centered Design culture and how it can be achieved, given a scenario.
  • recognize User-Centered Design principles and best practices.
  • identify the business and usability factors of design, and the criteria for effective design.
  • determine the guidelines and factors that affect design in a given scenario.
  • Course Number:
    231413_eng