Spring 2027

User Experience for Graphic Design

Project-based introduction to user experience for graphic design, focusing on practical methods, user research, conceptual design, sketching, and validation.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.95 GPA, 96.6% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Gather useful information about users and activities by asking, looking, learning, and trying.

  • Convey user research findings with personas, user journey maps, user stories, and user flow.

  • Learn and appreciate the skill of sketching as a process for user experience design.

  • Analyze interaction design problems and propose a user-centered process.

  • Appreciate the process of user experience design as an iterative process.

  • Demonstrate low and high-fidelity prototyping skills.

  • Understand the differences between user experience and usability.

  • Prepare high-quality professional documentation about a user experience design process for a professional portfolio.

  • Develop exhibition abstract and gallery plan for final documentation and design prototypes.

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Prerequisites

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(ART 102 or 107),ART 346 and 438

ART 575 used by

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.95 GPA, 96.6% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • User Experience (UX) Design
  • User Research Methods
  • Design Sketching
  • Design Validation
  • Conceptual Design Based on User Needs

Skills

  • Conducting user research by asking, looking, learning, and trying to gather information about users and activities.
  • Conveying user research findings using personas, user journey maps, user stories, and user flow.
  • Using sketching as a process for user experience design.
  • Analyzing interaction design problems and proposing user-centered processes.
  • Creating low and high-fidelity prototypes.
  • Preparing professional documentation of the UX design process for a portfolio.

Grades

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ART 575 · Spring 2027

User Experience for Graphic Design

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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