User Experience Design Minor
The Minor in User Experience Design (UxD) offers students a comprehensive exploration of and proficiency in user-centered design principles to enhance each student’s major areas. User Experience Design (UxD) is centered around the core principles and methodologies that ensure the creation of intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable user interactions with digital products, websites, applications, and other interfaces.
The Minor in User Experience Design adopts a multidisciplinary approach that complements a wide array of majors, including but not limited to majors that related to technologies and interaction including architecture, graphic design, GIS, industrial design, visual arts, and communication. This program equips students with highly-demand skills across industries such as web design, app development, digital fabrication, interface, and interaction design, and more. Graduates of this minor program will emerge well-prepared to contribute significantly with an understanding of user-friendly and impactful digital products and services within the contemporary, technology-driven landscape, and their primary areas.
Undergraduate students can declare for the UxD minor using the Minor Declaration form, with enrollment not exceeding more than 20 students for each required studio by a first-come first serve process.
Minor in User Experience Design
Undergraduate students at ISU can enroll in the UxD minor using the Minor Declaration form. The selection process will be done by a first-come first-serve basis, with enrollment not exceeding more than 20 students for each required studio by a first-come first-serve process.
The minor will be offered through the Graphic Design department, in the College of Design.
The UxD minor requires 15 credits, 9 required credits and 6 elective credits offered throughout seven departments to provide students with enough flexibility to allow substitutions based on individual needs. All required and many elective courses are offered annually.
| Required Courses: | ||
| Introduction to User Experience (UX) Design | ||
| Introduction to Prototyping Methods and User Evaluation | ||
| UX Design Research and Emerging Technologies | ||
| Elective Courses (Choose Two): | ||
| ARCH 4330 | Digital Fabrication | 3 |
| ARCH 4360 | Advanced Design Media | 3 |
| ARCH 4510 | Whole Building Energy Performance Modeling | 3 |
| ARCH 5280C | Studies in Architecture: Communications | 3 |
| ARTGR 4780 | Graphic Design Advanced Web Design | 3 |
| ARTGR 4840 | Selected Studies in Graphic Design | 1-3 |
| ARTGR 4890 | Design Ethics | 3 |
| ART 3080 | Computer Modeling, Rendering and Virtual Photography | 3 |
| ART 4070 | Principles of Character Animation | 3 |
| ART 4080 | Principles of 3D Animation | 3 |
| ART 4090 | Computer/Video Game Design and Development | 3 |
| ART 4700 | Data, Code, and Form | 3 |
| ART 4730 | Video Art | 3 |
| ART 4750 | Interactive Art | 3 |
| CRP 2510 | Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems | 3 |
| CRP 3510 | Geospatial Analysis and Visualization | 3 |
| CRP 4490 | Geodesign: Planning for Sustainable Futures | 3 |
| CRP 4520 | Geographic Data Management and Planning Analysis | 3 |
| CRP 4540 | Fundamentals of Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis | 3 |
| CRP 4560 | GIS Programming and Automation | 3 |
| INDD 2500 | Activity-Centered Industrial Design | 3 |
| INDD 3200 | Design Research Methods | 3 |
| INDD 3300 | Creative Thinking in Design | 3 |
| INDD 5500 | Human Factors: User Experience Design | 3 |
| ENGL 3130 | Rhetorical Website Design | 3 |
| ENGL 5050 | User Experience Architecture and Testing | 3 |
| ENGL 5490 | Multimedia and Interaction Design | 3 |
| LA 2110 | Digital Design Methods for Landscape Architecture | 3 |
| LA 4590 | Digital Design Methods for Landscape Architecture | 3 |
| LA 5580 | Web Mapping and Spatial Data Visualization | 3 |
| PSYCH 3160 | Cognitive Psychology | 3 |
| PSYCH 3500 | Human Factors in Technology | 3 |
| GAME 2020 | Game Design Fundamentals | 3 |
| GAME 3010 | Game Design Workshop | 3 |