ITAD 345 - Usability Engineering

5.0 Credits
This class explores foundational components of usability engineering. Subjects covered include: defining usability engineering, establishing a sound usability engineering lifecycle, usability heuristics, and analysis of usability testing methods.
Prerequisite ITAD 300 and ITAD 315.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Define usability, examine examples, and consider tradeoffs, and address differences in end users.
Examine the usability engineering lifecycle by detailing goal setting, prototyping, and follow up.
Understand usability heuristics by learning the user dialogue and language in order to develop consistency and efficiency.
Analyze usability testing: selecting appropriate test subjects, maintaining ethics with the test users, and utilizing interviews and questionnaires.