DEA 2730

Human Centered Design Methods

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog.

This course explores the use of design methods to generate ideas and evaluate designed objects, environments, and interfaces. Lectures cultivate an understanding of the various methods, while hands-on activities provide opportunity to apply these methods to the design of a small device and its interactions with people and things.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: DEA 1101, DEA 1150/DEA 1140, and DEA 1500.

Permission Note Enrollment priority given to: DEA undergraduate majors who have completed 1000-level CORE courses, including DEA 1101, DEA 1150/DEA 1140, and DEA 1500  with minimum grades of B-.  DEA minors and transfers will be given enrollment consideration based on course caps and/or permission of instructor.

Fees Course fee: $60.

Course Attribute (CU-UGR)

Outcomes

• To develop an understanding of how and which design methodologies can be applied in the iterative design process.
• To demonstrate the ability to develop and evaluate design prototypes responsive to the challenges and opportunities of supporting and augmenting human users.
• To communicate a design process in a research poster and video that satisfy requirements of benchmark, design-research conferences.

Distribution Category (LAD-HE)

When Offered Fall.

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