Course - User Centered Design to Post Human Design - IDG4113
User Centered Design to Post Human Design
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About the course
Course content
User-Centered Design to Post-Human Design and Beyond:
- Ethics
- Principles and knowledge concepts in key traditions in Interaction Design
- Prototyping methods
- Task analysis and other practical design methods
- Knowledge concepts related to Interaction Design, User-Centered Design, Eco-Centric Design, Post-human Design and beyond (episteme, techne, phronesis, situation, practice-based, culture, tradition, imagination, agency, re-generative learning)
Learning outcome
Knowledge:
The student will have a thorough overview of diverse design traditions that exist to ensure Interaction Design products and services, knowledge and processes for different purposes and situations. The student will have in-depth knowledge of user-centered methods and beyond, commonly used to deliver high quality products. The student will be able to apply this knowledge to design and optimize the outcome in products, services and interactive environments.
Skills:
The student will be able to evaluate the demands, the tasks at hand and its ethics in different situations, to initiate, theorise, lead and perform design work, in different Interaction Design traditions.
General competence:
The student will be able to analyse and assess the appropriateness of various design strategies and methods in design work in each tradition. The student will be able to analyse, reflect upon and discuss, academic and ethical design issues, related to the different traditions.
Learning methods and activities
- Lectures
- Group work
- Homework Assignments related to Group Project work
- Group Project work
- Seminar including seminar paper writing
Compulsory assignments
- Seminar
Further on evaluation
Group Project Work (100 %).
Compulsory assignment:
- Group assignment: Seminar presentation supported by seminar paper writing
- Workshops
- Design of concepts and prototypes
If the course has not been passed, the course's compulsory assignments must be taken again.
In the case of voluntary repetition (improvement of grade), the entire course must be taken again.
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Interaction Design (MIXD)
Recommended previous knowledge
IMT4309/4032 Usability and Human Factors in Interaction Design
Required previous knowledge
Admission to a programme of study is required: Master in Interaction Design
Course materials
Hopkins, Rob (2019). From what is to what if, unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want. White River Junction : Chelsea Green Publishing.
Selected articles and papers
Subject areas
- Interaction Design