The purpose of this core area is to develop students’ competencies to enter complex usage scenarios and independently take part in the design process concerning the design, construction and testing of complex user interfaces.

The subject involves the analysis, understanding of and reflection on the user’s experience and needs in various user contexts, including usability. Also considerations on Information Architecture and techniques, and utilisation of web media techniques. The focus is on understanding and organising user experiences in relation to design and development.

The student has development-based knowledge of:
• practice, applied theory and method of designing user experiences, and can reflect on a web developer’s practices for designing user experiences
• information architecture
• aesthetics and trends in interaction design
The student has development-based knowledge of: practice, applied theory and methods of development within:
• quality assurance
The student can understand and reflect on:
• development methods in web development,
• web architecture and design patterns,
• the use of user-survey methods

The student will get the skills to:
• master all stages of development including planning, developing and implementing web applications based on concrete development requests, as well as evaluating practice-orientated and theoretical issues and selecting and justifying relevant options in relation to the development of web applications
• evaluate and justify the choice of a suitable programming language and relevant methodologies for the implementation of web applications,
• master a suitable programming language to develop web applications
• use methods and tools to design user experiences for relevant target groups by involving users
• evaluate practice-orientated and theoretical issues by designing user interfaces and selecting and justifying relevant solutions
• disseminate practice-orientated and professional issues about designing user experiences and communicate central issues for business partners and users
• implement and evaluate web user interfaces, as well as justify and disseminate possible solutions to business partners and users
• use relevant theories and methods of quality assurance for all phases of development
• use methods and tools for quality assurance in the development process, as well as evaluate and justify the choice of tools
• use methods and tools within development environments to release web applications
• communicate the choice of methodology and tools for use in the development process

The student will learn to:
• independently engage in academic and interdisciplinary cooperation in a professional manner and assume responsibility within the framework of professional ethics in relation to web programming
• identify and structure their own learning needs and develop their own knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to web programming
• manage complex design processes based on analysis and planning
• independently and in groups, understand the design and organisation of user interfaces and user experiences for complex systems.
• identify and structure their own learning needs and develop their own skills and competencies in relation to design of user experiences.