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CSE171 - User Interface Design
Units: 4
Course Objectives: To give students background in user interface issues and practical experience in user interface design.
Course Description: Explores usability, representation and coordination issues in user interface design, with some focus on distributed cooperative work, semiotics, and the interplay between socio-cognitive and technical issues. Most examples and homework involve the Web.
Format: 3 hours of lecture per week, 1 hour of discussion section per week, 3 hours of lab per week, and 5 hours outside preparation per week.
Prerequisites: CSE 8B or CSE 11, CSE 20 or Math 15A, and CSE 100 or Math 176.
Other restrictions: Majors only.
Example Textbook(s): Designing the User Interface, B.Shneiderman, Addison Wesley, 1998, (3rd Edition)
Laboratory work: Consists of homework problems
Offered: 1 quarter per year, normally in the Spring.
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