Unit of Study ISYS5003 Principles of User Experience Design (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Science and Engineering
Placement

No

Anti-requisites

PROG2006 - Designing the User Experience OR CSC10214 Designing the User Experience

Unit description

Covers fundamental concepts, principles and best practices in User Experience (UX) design. This unit equips students with foundation knowledge and skills to apply principles of UX design and best practices in analysing and evaluating user-interface design and interactive content from an end-user's perspective. It prepares students for more complex design tasks of building user-friendly interactive and immersive software applications.

Unit content

Module 1. User interface design and psychology of UX

Module 2. Design-thinking and user-centred design

Module 3. User Interfaces for web

Module 4. User Interfaces for interactive/immersive applications

Module 5. Designing effective feedback and interactivity

Module 6. Designing with emerging technologies

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Gold Coast	Term1	Term1
Melbourne	N/A	Term1
Perth	N/A	Term1
Sydney	N/A	Term1

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

apply principles of UX design to analyse and evaluate the user interface of an interactive application.

apply design-thinking processes and user-centred evaluation methods to meet design requirements.

produce and present documentation to communicate an UX design product to multiple stakeholders.

design and prototype the user-interface for interactive applications in a team-based environment using emerging technologies, multimedia software and tools.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (weekly)

Assessment
Report	10%
Project	40%
Project	50%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (weekly)

Assessment
Report	10%
Project	40%
Project	50%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (weekly)

Assessment
Report	10%
Project	40%
Project	50%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (weekly)

Assessment
Report	10%
Project	40%
Project	50%

Prescribed learning resources

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Fee information

Domestic

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