Entry requirements

General entry requirements + English 6.

Progression level in relation to degree requirements

The course can normally be included as part of a general degree at undergraduate level.

Course contents

This course serves as an introduction to human-centred design as commonly conducted in interaction design. Interaction designers are designers of interaction, and this is the expertise and focus they bring to a design team. As such, this course introduces notions of interactivity and begins to sensitise students to the concerns of interaction design.

Students are introduced to and engage in a typical human-centred design process of research, identifying insights, setting the problem, ideating and evaluating. Theoretical perspectives of design and interactivity are introduced to support and contextualise practical activities.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course students will be able to:

1. Communicate the outcomes of a short human-centred interaction design project
2. Describe and critique design project experience with design process models and terminology
3. Critique and analyse an interactive artifact, drawing from course literature When the above learning objectives are met in a satisfactory manner, a Pass (G) is given.

Learning activities

The course consists of lectures, exercises and group design work.

Assessment

Student are examined through three examinations:

1. Group presentation of project outcomes (HP 2; LO 1)
2. Individual essay (HP 4; LO 2)
3. Individual interactive artifact critique (HP 1.5; LO 3)

When the above criteria are met in a satisfactory manner, a Pass (G) is given.

Course literature

• Buxton, Bill (2007). Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
• Hanington, Bruce & Martin, Bella (2012). Universal Design Methods. Rockport Publishers.
• Schön, Donald A. (1993). Generative metaphor: A perspective on problem-setting in social policy. In A. Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and thought (2nd ed., p. 137-163). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

The following papers will be provided:

• Dorst, Kees, and Cross, Nigel (2001). Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem–solution. Design studies, 22(5), p. 425-437.
• Houde, Stephanie, and Hill, Charles (1997). What do prototypes prototype?. In Helander, M.G., Landauer, T.K., and Prabhu P.V.(Eds.), Handbook of human-computer interaction (2 ed., p. 367-381). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science BV.

We will make available supplementary articles and literature to a maximum of 50 pages.

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Interim rules

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

Additional information

This is the English version of a Swedish syllabus.

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.