College of Chemistry Course Guide

CS 160 - User Interface Design and Development (4 Units)

(Taken from the UC Berkeley Course Guide)

Course Overview

Summary

The design, implementation, and evaluation of user interfaces. User-centered design and task analysis. Conceptual models and interface metaphors. Usability inspection and evaluation methods. Analysis of user study data. Input methods (keyboard, pointing, touch, tangible) and input models. Visual design principles. Interface prototyping and implementation methodologies and tools. Students will develop a user interface for a specific task and target user group in teams.

Prerequisites

CS 61B or 61BL

Computer Science (COMPSCI) < University of California, Berkeley

Workload

Time Commitment

3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.




UC Berkeley Course Guide