Human-Centered Design

Catalog description

This workshop-style course introduces human-centered design as a foundation for creating useful, enjoyable, and accessible products, services, and systems. Open to all majors, the course builds core user experience (UX) skills through hands-on projects that simulate real-world design scenarios and guide students through the design process from foundational research and ideation through prototyping, testing, and handoff. Students also explore a brief history of user-friendliness and the evolution of usability, behavioral design, cognitive biases, visual design fundamentals, gamification, design ethics (including dark design patterns), and user advocacy. Students learn human-centered approaches to designing with and for AI, with emphasis on ethics, bias mitigation, and trust. By the end of the course, students will develop a portfolio tailored to their major. Applied AI Integration: This course meets or exceeds MSOE’s Applied AI Integration guidelines for sufficient coverage of Practical Application, Critical Evaluation, and Social Responsibility.