User Centered Design

The discipline of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) aims to systematically place the human factor in the design of interactive systems. User-centred design (UCD) refers to the structured process whereby end users are involved throughout the design of interactive systems to ensure a greater User Experience (UX).

Preliminary program (subject to change):

  1. [INTRO] Introduction: Human-Computer Interaction & User Experience (UX)
  2. [PROCESS] Gather organizational needs and identify best practices: Voice of Business & Voice of the Market
  3. [PROCESS] Understand target users and their needs: Voice of the Customer
  4. [PROCESS] Specify target users and their usage contexts: Personas, User Journeys & UX Vision
  5. [PROCESS] Structure and name content: Information architecture
  6. [PROJECT] Intermediate Presentations
  7. [PROCESS] Design the Solution: Wireframing & Prototyping
  8. [PROCESS] Evaluate the solution: User testing
  9. [PROCESS] Measure performance: UX Metrics
  10. [TOPIC] Deceptive Patterns
  11. [TOPIC] Interaction styles
  12. [TOPIC] Web Accessibility
  13. [PROJECT] Final Presentations
  14. [OUTRO] Summary & outlook

Details

Code 03018
Type Course
ECTS 5
Site Fribourg
Track(s) T0 – General
Semester A2025

Teaching

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the class, students should be able to:

  • Understand the development life-cycle of user interfaces;
  • Understand the principles of the various kinds of design and evaluation methods;
  • Understand when and how each specific design/evaluation methods can be used;
  • Acquire theoretical and practical knowledge on the whole set of:
    • design and prototyping methods;
    • evaluation methods;
  • Run user evaluations at any step of the usability engineering life-cycle.
Lecturer(s) Denis Lalanne
Language english
Course Page

The course page in ILIAS can be found at https://ilias.unibe.ch/goto_ilias3_unibe_crs_3419449.html.

Schedules and Rooms

Period Weekly
Schedule Monday, 14:15 - 17:00
Location UniFR, PER21
Room D130

Evaluation

Evaluation type written exam

Additional information

Comment

First Lecture
The first lecture will take place on Monday, 15.09.2025 at 14:15 in UniFR, PER21, room D130.