Web Design
The Rize Web Design program blends programming, graphic design, UI/UX, and marketing to prepare students for diverse roles in tech and creative industries. Built with input from academic and industry experts, this project-focused program offers optional tracks in programming or design to deepen skills. Whether pursued as a major, minor, or certification, it equips students with the versatile skills employers demand today.
Web Design
Courses
User Experience I: Understanding User Experience
Technology companies spend billions of dollars ensuring that their products are intuitive and delight users. This course will teach you how they do that. You’ll learn what drives product usability, the basics of User Experience (UX) design and research, and how to build wireframes and prototypes. By the end of this course, you’ll be on your way to building experiences that make customers happy.
User Experience II: Building Compelling User Experiences
This course builds upon User Experience I and will teach you how to build effective user experiences through a rigorous process of implementing best practices, testing designs, and iterating. You will also cover topics such as branding, color palettes, user journeys, and designing for multiple platforms. By the end of this course, you will be able to build a mobile app or website prototype and iterate upon it based on user feedback.
Goal-Oriented Web Design
One of the main goals of a company’s website is to improve its bottom line. In this course, you will propose and build a new website for an existing company. This website should be optimized to boost conversion events for the company in question. In doing so, you will need to research customer behavior and industry trends in order to successfully generate leads and sales. This course will test all of the skills built up through the Web Design major - design, prototyping, optimization, and programming.
Student Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
- Use the languages of the web and modern development frameworks to create both static sites and web applications.
- Build high-fidelity user flow prototypes for both mobile and desktop web apps, leveraging principles of modern UX design.
- Conduct user interviews in order to iterate toward and validate compelling user journeys.
- Manage the creation of a website designed for conversion from ideation to coding to completion of viable finished product.
Certifications
Disclosure
This program includes courses delivered online through an institution of the Lower Cost Models Consortium (LCMC), however all academic credit applies toward the degree requirements at your degree-granting institution.
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