Agile Product Design is a 14-week, hands-on course where students learn how UX design and product management come together to create meaningful, user-centered products. The course begins with two weeks of foundations in agile practices, inclusive design, and team collaboration. From there, students work in cross-functional teams to complete six two-week sprints, moving through discovery,… Read more DM-UY 4913 Agile Product Design
This advanced, project-based experimental design studio explores the creation and application of contemporary visual identities through critical theoretical frameworks and hands-on practice. Students will conceptualize, design, and execute a comprehensive visual identity system for an imagined persona, collective, or organization, culminating in a collaborative digital application that synthesizes multiple media formats and creative disciplines. The… Read more DM-GY 9103 Hybrid Designs
This course is an advanced, project-based experimental design studio with parallel discussions of readings and critical theories in contemporary visual culture and visual identity creation. Students will devise and construct a visual identity (brand) for an imagined persona, collective or organization, then (as a class, communally, collaboratively) design an application of their brand in the… Read more DM-UY 4193 Hybrid Visual Identity: Design and Application
“Dark patterns,” malicious uses of good design practices, manipulate and trick users into following UX flows to increase spending and reduce data privacy. Students will identify the design practices at play in dark patterns, design their own manipulative interfaces, and implicate the ethics of UX design practices in a corporatized digital landscape. This course will… Read more DM-UY 4193 Dark Patterns
In this course, students will learn how to create original content for Augmented Reality (AR) experiences. Far too often, found and premade assets are used in AR experiences. Having to rely on other people’s creations waters down a creators vision and may completely break a user’s experience. AR has the potential to engage an individual’s… Read more DM-UY 4193 3D For AR
This graduate course will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and user experience (UX) design, with a focus on incorporating user research and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) principles throughout the design process. Students will learn how to design effective AI-powered user experiences by understanding the capabilities and limitations of AI, and by applying user-centered design… Read more DM-GY 9103 Future of UX & AI
Human beings experience the world through story, and myths are one of the oldest forms of storytelling. Their lessons are essential for meaningful communication, social connection, and a sense of wonder. Explore myths and storytelling techniques both new and old as a way of thinking through design principles and process. Through lectures, hands-on activities, and… Read more DM-UY 4913 Design Through Myth and Storytelling
From interacting with the latest device to cogently communicating complex data, user experience design (UX) is a discipline given increased prominence by the inescapable human relationship with technology. We will cover the UX design process as it relates to interactive interfaces found in websites, mobile apps, hardware, and events. Sample Syllabi
In the course, we will explore the following questions: • How do social media and digital platforms shape our social world? • How can we apply digital design methods to reimagine social media and digital platforms? Speculative Networks is a concept-driven, project-based course that explores theories of digital communication through the creation of projects that… Read more DM-GY 9103 Speculative Networks
This course explores the intersection of user experience design, spatial computing, wearable technology, and fashion, with a strong emphasis on social justice. It aims to equip students with the skills to create innovative designs that are not only technologically advanced but also socially conscious and inclusive. Students will gain an understanding of the principles of… Read more DM-GY 9103 Design for Change: UX and Wearables