User Experience and Interactive Design with Co-op

Canadian College of Technology and Business – CCTB

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In Vancouver (Canada)

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Advanced

  • Location

    Vancouver (Canada)

Increasing digitalization has generated new employment opportunities in both the business and the IT sector. Throughout this one-year post-secondary diploma program, you will learn to design and develop user interfaces suitable for a variety of different platforms including websites, mobile applications, and data-driven information systems to work in the rapidly growing tech sector in Canada.

The User Experience and Interactive Design with Co-op program will equip you with the skills needed to enter a range of different roles including: Web Developer, Web Manager, Corporate Webmaster, Internet Site Designer, and Webmaster.

For individuals wanting to start their careers as a developer, this program is ideal. Not only will you gain the skills needed to tackle some of the most complex challenges in the industry, but through practical work experience you will discover which roles are best suited to your abilities.

By the end of the program, students will be able to design and evaluate a variety of user interfaces, use prototypes to get feedback from stakeholders as well as incorporate design thinking principles into a wide variety of IT projects.

Studying the User Experience and Interactive Design with Co-op program will provide you with skills that you can take into many different roles. Some roles you could consider pursuing after you finish the program include:

• Web Developer
• Web Manager
• Corporate Webmaster
• Internet Site Designer
• Webmaster

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About this course

By studying this program, you will develop your capabilities as a User Experience and Interactive developer analyst enabling you to enter a range of different roles in the IT sector.

• Usability Specialist: A Usability Specialist, also called a Usability Analyst or UX researcher, verifies that products meet the usability and user needs requirements. They also ensure that products are enjoyable to consumers.

• Interactive Design Designer: User Interface designing is the process of making the website appearance and interface usable and enjoyable for potential customers. Designers focus on building websites that are efficient and effortless for the end-users.

• User Experience Analyst: These analysts research the user’s requirements for a given website or software application.

• Business Analyst: Business Analysts (BAs) bridge the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to evaluate processes, determine requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.

• User Interactive/User Experience Developer: These developers are responsible for both designing and developing an enjoyable user experience on a website.

• Front-End Developer: Through the combination of design, technology, and programming, a Front-End Developer codes a website’s appearance and ensures that website visitors can easily interact with the page. They are also responsible for the translation of User Interactive/User Experience design wireframes to actual

• Good command of English language
• High school diploma or equivalent from an approved government of applicant's home country, or applicant is minimum 19 years of age
• Students are required to bring their own computers to class

English Language Requirements:

Applicant must attain one of the following English language requirements:

• Successful completion of CCTB EAP (English for Academic Purposes) Level 4 or
• Have the required IELTS 5.5 score or equivalent or
• Pass the CCTB English Assessment (Written onsite or online with exam proctor)

Post-Secondary Diploma

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Design techniques
  • Graphics
  • Arts
  • Drawing

Course programme

Introduction to Human-Centred Design
  • This course will introduce students to fundamental User Experience principles. This course will develop a solid understanding of rapid prototyping and heuristic evaluation which will set a strong foundation for the subsequent course modules.
Introduction to Design Principles
  • In this course, students will learn what makes an interface intuitive and how to tell whether one design works better than another.
  • Students will understand the fundamental principles of visual design and how to effectively organize and present information through interfaces. Topics include the principles of perception and cognition that inform effective interaction design.
  • Students will be able to perform and analyze controlled experiments online. This course is an essential part of User Experience and Interactive Design program.
Input and Interaction
  • This course introduces the relevant fundamentals of human motor performance, perception, and cognition that inform effective interaction design.
  • Employing these concepts will allow for more effective input and interaction techniques. These skills will be applied to traditional graphic and gestural interfaces.
  • This course is an essential part of UIUX program.
User Experience: Research and Prototyping
  • This course teaches students the core process of experience design and how to effectively evaluate their work with the people for whom the design is made.
  • Students learn fundamental methods of design research that will enable them to effectively understand people, the sequences of their actions, and the context in which they work. Through the assignments, practical techniques for making sense of what they see will transform their observations into meaningful actionable insights and unique opportunity areas for design.
  • Students explore idea generation in response to the opportunities identified and learn methods for making ideas tangible. By answering specific questions and refining concepts, ideas will become more real.
  • In this course use cases from a variety of industries including health, education, transportation, finance, and beyond will be used to illustrate how these methods work across different domains.
  • This course is an essential part of User Experience and Interactive Design program.
Sketching, Wire framing, Prototyping and Visual Design
  • Students will learn about the importance of sketching and iteration in the wire framing process and how to create paper prototypes as well as popular visual design tools and software.
Information Design
  • This course explores how to improve the way information in sites or applications are organized and presented, and cost-effective ways of increasing user satisfaction and engagement.
Mobile User Experience Design
  • In this course, students learn how, as a User Experience designer, they can create mobile friendly experience easy, intuitive and pleasing.
Designing, Running and Analyzing Experiments
  • In this course, students learn how to design user-centered experiments, how to run such experiments, how to analyze resulting data and evaluate and validate user experiences.
  • Students work through real-world examples of experiments from the fields of User Experience, Interaction Design, and Human Computer Interaction understanding issues in experiment design and analysis. Multiple data sets will be analyzed using recipes given in the R statistical programming language -- no prior programming experience is assumed or required, but students will be required to read, understand, and modify code snippets provided to them.
Relational Database Systems and SQL
  • In this course, students learn the tools and processes for data modeling in Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and the Structured Query Language, SQL, to define and manipulate data.
Front-End Web Development and Design Level 1
  • In this comprehensive course students learn to implement design ideas and develop their own web application on the front-end level.
  • Foundational principles of website creation including technologies: HTML5, CSS3 and SCSS/SASS.
Front-End Web Development and Design Level 2
  • In this comprehensive course students learn to implement design ideas and develop their own web application on the front-end level.
  • Students will learn web programming technologies such as JavaScript, JQuery, SQL and and introduction into the React.js front-end framework.
Business Analysis and System Design
  • Students will study concepts, processes and tools that professionals use to plan and develop information systems to industry standards. Students learn how to ask implicit questions, to create and document communication plans and to make better decisions prior to creating an information system. This course is an essential part of User Experience and Interactive Design program.
Information Visualization
  • In this course students will learn to use the popular business intelligence tool Tableau in order to visualize and understand complex data sets.
Interactive Design Capstone Project
  • Students will apply the skills learned during the sequence of courses - from need finding to visual design -- as they redesign a new interface, service, or product for their Interaction Design Capstone Project.
Employment Preparation Training
  • The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the employment upon completion of the program. This course will ready students through resume crafting, portfolio development, job search strategies, interview preparation and salary negotiations as well as career development training

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Domestic and International: $ 18,900 
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User Experience and Interactive Design with Co-op

£ 9,837.22 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in CAD:

$ 16,878 $ 18,900

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