TCH410B Digital Media: The MSi curriculum prepares you to work in the Adobe XD software. The course is a two-semester-long program. Semester 2 includes the following skills. This course teaches how to use Adobe XD, the design and prototyping tool from Adobe, to collaborate in real-time with team members, layout designs and webpages, mask, and import image files, work efficiently, use tools such as auto animate, create interactions and component states, fix elements in place with scrolling fixed elements, work with audio and voice, and manage designs with design systems. Learners will learn how to create and animate charts, use, and create components, design for different media, prototype for gaming experiences, and share designs for review with stakeholders, as well as create and manage assets with Creative Cloud Libraries and export designs to HTML and CSS.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: User Research & Communication

• Identify user research
• Describe planning and conducting user research
• Identify types of user research methods
• Describe evaluating user research findings
• Recognize the importance of empathy in UI/UX design
• Identify information hierarchy
• Identify content grouping and labeling
• Describe navigation system
• Identify prototyping
• Describe designing for responsive devices
• Describe planning usability tests
• Describe local and remote testing
• Describe A/B testing
• Identify collecting data and analyzing & reporting the results
• Recognize accessibility in UI/UX design
• Recognize ethics and responsibility in UI/UX design

Chapter 2: Information Hierarchy and Prototyping

Chapter 3: Usability, Testing & Analysis

Chapter 4: Accessibility, Ethics & Responsibility

Chapter 5: Working with Clients, Documentation & Scope

• Identify working with clients in UI/UX design
• Identify documenting project requirements and scope

Chapter 6: Real World Case Studies

• Describe UI/UX design of the dragon spaceX capsule
• Describe UI/UX design of the duolingo app
• Identify CPR & First Aid by American Heart Association study

Chapter 7: Advanced XD Features

In this chapter, students will learn how to publish a prototype, gather stakeholder feedback, and export their design. They will also learn how to review design specs.

• Describe components and states integration
• Identify developer handoff
• Describe introducing live coediting

Chapter 8: Project