INFO 4340 - App Design and Prototyping

Fall, Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Prerequisite: INFO 2300 or equivalent programming experience and INFO 3450/COMM 3450 Co-meets with INFO 5440.

K. Harms.

In this interactive studio-based course, students will work in teams to complete a significant project. Students will gain practical experience and confidence applying the user-centered design process to design, code, and evaluate a high-fidelity prototype app. Through the project, students will learn how design effective graphical user interfaces using affordances, user feedback, and common interface controls.

This course has a significant software development focus, exposing students to software development methods and tools necessary for developing high-fidelity interactive software prototypes. This includes employing UI component libraries, event-based programming, data stubs, Git work-flows, basic command line usage, and debugging.