Usability and Interaction Design

Upon completion of this program, the successful student with have reliably demonstrated the ability to understand and apply the underlying principles of:
- Usability Fundamentals
- Design && Digital Media History
- Interactive Design && Composition
- Mobile Usability && Responsive Design

Our curriculum is built through regular consultation with industry professional and hiring partners, and is designed to teach the skills, tools and technologies to meet the evolving needs and trends emerging in the tech industry.

Usability Fundamentals

- Fundamental principles of usability
- Feedback based design
- Principles of Functionality, Satisfaction, Perceived Trust, Intuitive Learnability, Memorability, Orientation, Findability and Signposting
- Use of Images, icons and words in design

Design & Digital Media History

- The history of design and digital media
- Trends in digital design
- Gestalt theory and design conventions in the digital age
- Dieter Rams: the 10 commandments of post-industrial design
- Ben Shneiderman: the 8 golden rules of interface design

Interactive Design & Composition

- Design conventions: matching user experience and expectations
- Composition: using spacing and white space - simple is hard, less is more
- Avoiding user cognitive overload - the principle of 3 to 7
- Trust and control: signalling, signposting and navigation
- Communication, messaging and content design
- Interactive elements in digital design: buttons, links, hover states, menus, images, rich media, social media, commenting, text fields, web forms

Mobile Usability & Responsive Design

- Fundamentals of mobile usability
- Principles and conventions of mobile-first design and responsive design
- Low fidelity prototyping for mobile using Marvel
- High fidelity responsive design using InVision

 User Interface Designer, User Experience Designer, Product Manager, UX Researcher, Information Architect, Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Communication Designer, Production Designer, Interactive Designer, Art Director, Creative Director

Standard Course Fee: S$2,160.00

SSG Funding Support	Course fee	Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes
	BEFORE funding & GST	AFTER funding & 8% GST	AFTER funding & 9% GST
Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding)	S$2,000.00	S$648.00	S$654.00
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)		S$248.00	S$254.00
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES) (Up to 90% funding)

• NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.

Note: Course fee payment made before 1 Jan 2024 will be subject to GST at 8%, and payment made on or after 1 Jan 2024 will be subject to GST at 9%.