ID704 METHODS OF USABILITY TESTING AND USER CENTERED DESIGN
| Course Code: | 1250704 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. BAHAR ŞENER PEDGLEY |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course sets out to:
- introduce key relationships among users, products, tasks, and usage contexts;
- examine the principles and dimensions of usability in physical and digital systems;
- familiarise students with established usability testing methods and standards;
- link usability testing outcomes to user centred design practices and verification processes.
Course Content
Courses not listed in the catalogue. Topics vary from year to year according to interest of students and faculty in charge.
Course Learning Outcomes
On completing the course, students will be able to:
- explain core usability concepts;
- distinguish between perceived usability and measured usability and understand their inherent strengths and weaknesses;
- identify appropriate usability testing methods for various design scenarios;
- interpret and critique provided usability data.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Identifying research areas in distinct and contemporary topics and formulating research problems; | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Being competent in the research process, process planning, managing, analyzing data, and correctly interpreting findings; | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Transforming knowledge in the field and research results into strategies, politics, methods and/or decisions; | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Transferring research findings into design education and practice; | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Disseminating generated knowledge, making publications and presenting them; | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Having general knowledge in the field of design, having covered the literature and developing expertise in specific topics; | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Having responsibility towards own research, respecting and practicing research ethics; | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Having work discipline and skills in time planning; | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Having skills in oral, written and visual communication; | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Open to continuous education and self-development, having high professional motivation; | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Open and willing to share knowledge and skills with stakeholders; | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Being critical, able to make self-criticism, reflecting objective and unprejudiced thinking into their own work; | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Synthesising knowledge from different disciplines to use in one?s own field and using it for generating new knowledge. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution