Visualization 4 Studio
The goal of this class is to
provide students with the theoretical understanding, practical skills, perceptual vocabulary,
and applied experience needed to become effective at creating professional level visual communications for new display screen based user experiences and interface designs.
The
course takes on 3 projects during the semester that employ both analog and digital tools to go from early sketching of
ideas and testing with end users to higher levels of production for
communicating the ultimate vision for the user’s experience.
Weekly sessions typically include a class
critique of the prior weeks homework, followed by lecture topics and
demonstrations, in-class one on one work
time, and discussion. The class sometimes works in collaboration with the M4
Studio.
Course Learning Goals
Practiced skills for creative
development of effective digital interactive interface designs
Practice of fundamentals for
strong visual communications: for idea development and presentation
Practice with state of
the art analog and digital tools.
Experimentation with style
and visualization technique
1) Confident, sketching, mock-up and presentation
production skills at a professional level for the development and presentation
of valuable user interface designs.
2) Ability to explore a variety of styles and approaches
to creative design visualization
3) Development of professional level interpersonal
communications
4) Confident ability with iterative development process for
the creation of innovative user interface designs.
Topics will include:
Topical Research
Concept
Development
Prototyping techniques for Interface Design
User testing and Co Design
Finished mockup development
Presentation Design
Tools will include:
Analog Drawing and Sketching
tools
Adobe Creative Suite
Keynote
Sketchup
Sketchup
