This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design and articulate meaning using color, type, and imagery is essential to making interfaces function clearly and seamlessly. Through a series of lectures and visual exercises, you will focus on the many individual elements and components that make up the skillset of an interface designer. By the end of this course, you will be able to describe the key formal elements of clear, consistent, and intuitive UI design, and apply your learned skills to the design of a static screen-based interface.
This is the first course in the UI/UX Design Specialization, which brings a design-centric approach to user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective, rather than on one focused on marketing or programming alone.
These courses are ideal for anyone with some experience in graphic or visual design and who would like to build their skill set in UI or UX for app and web design. It would also be ideal for anyone with experience in front- or back-end web development or human-computer interaction and want to sharpen their visual design and analysis skills for UI or UX.
Ce cours fait partie de la Spécialisation UI / UX Design
Visual Elements of User Interface Design
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Semaine
117 minutes pour terminer
Course and Specialization Overview
Welcome! In this first module I will summarize the assignments and expectations of this course, as well as the UI/UX Design Specialization.
2 vidéos (Total 6 min), 4 lectures
4 lectures
About this course3 min
About the assignments3 min
Required Tools2 min
About CalArts and the Program in Graphic Design3 min
2 heures pour terminer
What IS a user interface anyway?
In this first week we will look at some basic broad concepts and contexts for user interfaces, looking at examples both on and off-screen. We will look at basic principles of interaction theory, discuss the relationship between UI and UX, and examine the relationship between coding and designing. We will discuss the roles of functionality and aesthetics in interface design and outline a "form-first" philosophy to user interface design. This week will focus on background information and terminology and will give you the context and vocabulary necessary before you start making great interfaces!
9 vidéos (Total 44 min), 2 lectures, 2 quiz
9 vidéos
What is a User Interface?3 min
The Relationship Between UI and UX5 min
Roles in UI/UX5 min
A Brief Historical Overview of Interface Design4 min
Interface Conventions: Theory6 min
Interface Conventions: Application7 min
Template vs Content7 min
Aesthetics & Functionality3 min
2 lectures
About UI vs UX graded quiz1 min
Interface Conventions: Review15 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
UI vs UX20 min
Interface Conventions20 min
Semaine
24 heures pour terminer
Formal Elements of Interface Design
This week we are going to examine the various formal elements that make up an interface. We’ll start out with the larger questions of content, context and audience that frame any UI/UX project. In other words: What is it? Who is it for? And, where does it live? And we’ll look at the big picture of overall design direction, what is often referred to as “look and feel”. From there we’ll go into detail of how the basic components of how visual design works in the context of interface design: language, shape, color, imagery, typography, and icons. These areas will be the formal building blocks you will use to create the more complex visual structure of a screen-based user interface.
8 vidéos (Total 52 min), 1 lecture, 1 quiz
8 vidéos
Design Before Design4 min
Look and Feel8 min
Language as a design tool5 min
Color and Shape8 min
Imagery7 min
Typography8 min
Icons8 min
1 lecture
Project Brief3 min
Semaine
35 heures pour terminer
Active Elements of Interface Design
This week we are going to take our static interface elements and begin to think about how a user interacts with them. In other words, how to bring these elements a stage closer to having a life on the screen. We’ll be looking at navigational conventions, such as menus, buttons, and icons in different states. Our focus will move from what the graphic interface looks like, to include how it works and how it responds to the user. By adding interactivity to our static designs, the idea is to think more deeply about the role the designer plays in shaping a user’s interactive experience.
8 vidéos (Total 53 min), 4 lectures, 1 quiz
8 vidéos
Static to Active1 min
Functionality8 min
Speed and Style7 min
Composition and Structure7 min
Buttons7 min
Not Buttons12 min
States and Changes7 min
4 lectures
Try it Yourself: Define the Interaction15 min
Pattern Libraries10 min
Designing Better Buttons10 min
Try it Yourself: Examine an interface10 min
Semaine
45 heures pour terminer
Composing the Elements of Interface Design
This week we are going to take our individual interface components and see what happens when we try to put them together into a more complex structure. We’ll be looking at how to get our components to work harmoniously as a family, figuring out how hierarchy works in the interface, and discussing conventions and expectations of contemporary interface design. We’ll also be examining how to navigate to different screens and how to build visual relationships between different kinds of content within a single site. Finally, we’ll be discussing different platforms, how to create variable content for different screen sizes, and looking at how to organize complex bodies of content into user-friendly structures.
7 vidéos (Total 41 min), 2 lectures, 1 quiz
7 vidéos
Invisible Complexity: Making a Whole from Many Parts2 min
Hierarchy of Content7 min
Conventions and Expectations6 min
Structure and Grids10 min
Platforms and Screen Sizes4 min
Putting it All Together: Slice 'n' Dice7 min
2 lectures
Try it yourself: UI Inventory20 min
Next Steps2 min
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Michael Worthington
Faculty, Program in Graphic DesignSchool of Art
À propos de California Institute of the Arts
CalArts has earned an international reputation as the leading college of the visual and performing arts in the United States. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater—CalArts has championed creative excellence, critical reflection, and the development of new forms and expressions.
À propos de la Spécialisation UI / UX Design
The UI/UX Design Specialization brings a design-centric approach to user interface and user experience design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective, rather than on one focused on marketing or programming alone. In this sequence of four courses, you will summarize and demonstrate all stages of the UI/UX development process, from user research to defining a project’s strategy, scope, and information architecture, to developing sitemaps and wireframes. You’ll learn current best practices and conventions in UX design and apply them to create effective and compelling screen-based experiences for websites or apps.
User interface and user experience design is a high-demand field, but the skills and knowledge you will learn in this Specialization are applicable to a wide variety of careers, from marketing to web design to human-computer interaction.
Learners enrolled in the UI/UX Design Specialization are eligible for an extended free trial (1 month) of a full product suite of UX tools from Optimal Workshop. Details are available in Course 3 of the Specialization, Web Design: Strategy and Information Architecture.
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What tools or software will I need to complete this course?
Since this is a graphic design course, to complete the assignments you will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with the appropriate software installed. You can't really do graphic design work properly on a smartphone or tablet. Adobe CC software is recommended for these courses, but alternatives are available. Software will be reviewed in greater detail in the first week of the course.
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