School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Experience Design Studio
  • Unit Code

    DES2650
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Joo JUNG

Description

This unit expands students' knowledge and skills in user experience (UX) design by exploring human cognition and emotions, and their impact on product and service design. Students will undertake a project that will allow them to delve into the principles of human-centred design, enabling them to create design outcomes that effectively meet the needs and wants of various stakeholders in an effective, efficient and satisfying manner. This unit familiarises students with UX design methods such as user research, prototyping and evaluation of design outcomes.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed DES1605, DES1610

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss key issues and concepts related to user experience design in human-centred product design.
  2. Conduct design-centric research to make informed decisions for outcome development.
  3. Discuss key issues and concepts related to user experience design to improve the iterative design-making process.
  4. Apply collaborative design practices, such as active discussions, constructive feedback, and input generation,effectively to enhance the design process and outcome.
  5. Critically reflect on and evaluate UX design decisions, to foster growth in their personal design practice and improvement in the UX design process.

Unit Content

  1. In-depth engagement of user experience (UX) design.
  2. Exploring and critiquing complexity in design problems in a collaborative manner.
  3. User-centred design as an empathetic design process.
  4. Creation of meaningful and relevant experiences for users.
  5. Application and evaluation as an iterative design prototyping practice to enhance the quality and effectiveness of design solutions.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered9 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportCreative brief40%
Creative WorkDesign outcome40%
JournalReflective journal20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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