Prior study of CESCOM10098-4 Web Concepts or equivalent

Devices - such as smart phones and tablets
Web Server or cloud facilities for WordPress

Killer UX Design, Moule J, (2012), Sitepoint publishers; 1st edition, ISBN-10: 0987153099
Smashing UX Design: Foundations for Designing Online User Experiences (Smashing Magazine Book Series), Allen J, Chudley J, (2012), John Wiley & Sons ISBN-10: 0470666854

32 lecture hours and 40 hours of tutorial/practical sessions with the first 8 weeks having 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week. The remaining 16 weeks will be 1 lecture and 1 x 2hr lab based tutorial per week.

The first 8 weeks will be used to facilitate the knowledge and understanding needed for the theory part of the module focusing on areas such as design, methods and user experience issues. These elements are essential in students determining an effective set of design requirements for any subsequent implementation to satisfy. The remaining classes will be used for the technical side of the module and focus on implementation approaches and strategies, as well as following the chosen UX Method in the implementation process. Throughout the module group discussions will take part in both lectures and tutorial sessions.

User Experience and Web Design
- What makes a good user experience
- Understanding Users
- Understanding Businesses
- Usability and UX Methods and Testing
- Design for age / gender / ability / disability
- Effects of social networks and user generated content on web design
- Ethics
- Global issues
- Prototyping for web designers
- Advanced features in responsive and adaptive web design
- Choice of media used in a web site
- Current trends in web design
- Content Design (editorials for the web)
- Design of questionnaires / analysing results
- Competitor analysis
- Target Audience Analysis
- Evaluation / Testing methods
Frameworks / CMS
- Look at existing web development tools ¿ their advantages and disadvantages (such as Adobe Edge)
- Frameworks and their advantages / disadvantages
- Ensuring frameworks used suit the target audience
- Degradation of Frameworks
- The role of a CMS (Content Management Systems)
- The role of frameworks in rapid design
- Current CMS Frameworks such as WordPress

Libraries
- Use of libraries such as JQuery
- Inclusion and CDN
- UI Effects using libraries
- Enhancing user experience with libraries

An assignment (100%) (Learning Outcomes 1-5)

100% assignment, which consists of 4 stages throughout the year
- Creation of a survey to determine requirements
- A sequence of designs for a web site showing progress through the designs.
- Creation of a mock-up of a web site using current standards, frameworks and libraries.
- Evaluation of a current web site showing the evaluation process (report of approximately 1500 words plus supporting documentation) Final