No-Code Development & UI / UX Diploma with Co-op

This course focuses on providing students with web design and web development fundamentals. This course includes an introduction to Computing, Web design, Mobile Design, Web Development and Mobile Development. In this course, students will learn HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), methods to set up local servers and development platforms, and responsive design concepts, web domains, web hosting, and web management. It also introduces the graphic design principles to the students and covers topics such as form, typography, type styles, color theory and their applications in user interface and user experience design. The course’s objective is to help the student acquire foundation knowledge for the upper-level design and development courses. 

At the end of the class, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Understanding the foundations of design and development
• Problem-solving with design tools and techniques

In this course, students will learn the best practices for design fundamentals across media, producing results suitable for web, mobile applications, and other interactive environments.  Lectures and readings will lay out the fundamental concepts that underpin design as a human activity. Weekly design challenges test your ability to apply those ideas to solve real problems. Students will learn how to present the client’s message or objective in a manner that resonates with the target audience and enhances overall interaction and usability. 

The emphasis of the course is the basic design process: define, explore, select, and refine. The Introduction of Design course focuses on the basic design process and provides a solid foundation for delivering interactive and engaging content for web and mobile applications. Students will have hands-on practice developing a series of conceptual projects that demonstrate their work towards creating a website in collaboration with other courses in this program.

This course includes an introduction of HTML, CSS, Sass, bootstrap and Git Hub, Web Site design using HTML, CSS, and Sass bootstrap and Mobile Site design using HTML, CSS, and Sass bootstrap. Students will learn the theory and practice of design and layout to visualize and develop problem-solving ideas and render effective content using the principles of design, typography, and color in layouts for print and web products. 

Paper based documentation, as well as very basic use of Illustrator or InDesign, will be utilized to complete projects from brainstorming to final presentations. Students will be assessed by a combination of quizzes, group and individual projects. Students will learn the concept of design systems and how they are used in designing computer applications for varying platforms. 

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Practicing the different design systems
• Creating responsive design across multiple platforms

Introduces the “identification of issuesFor those interested in human behavior and making a difference in the products and experiences of daily life, User Interface Design (UI) and User Experience (UX) is a strategic area of development.  This introductory course introduces  UI/UX Design Method, UI/UX Design for SEO, defining user experience metrics, improving the design based on data collected. By understanding the power and limitations of Interface Design and User Experience tools and how to work with them, students will evaluate prototyping systems that use effective design principles to receive user feedback. Students will be assessed by a combination of quizzes, group and individual projects.,” “flow using frameworks,” and “production tools” necessary to advance design improvement, and learn the process by which anyone can efficiently propose improvements.

At the end of class, the students will be knowledgeable about:

UI/UX design Method
UI/UX design for SEO
Defining user experience metrics
Improving the design based on data collected

This course focuses on building UI elements using various design applications. Students will be introduced to the guidelines for building UI elements, utilize their knowledge in several design applications to create UI components and finally export them in the proper formats. Students will be evaluated by a series of assignments and term projects.

​In this course, students will learn how to use motion to visually present an idea or explain complex information. They will utilize text layers, vector artwork, and raster images into their projects, animating them across time and 2D or 3D space. The importance of proper pacing will be emphasized. Variant techniques, such as masking, effects, and color correction will be introduced as methods to enhance the animation. Students will showcase their understanding of the course’s topics by completing individual assignments, as well as working in teams in a final project.

In this course students learn to use the fundamentals of the Wix Dashboard to promote the business and manage the website and also learn to use the WordPress dashboard to install and customize existing WordPress themes, add and activate plug-ins, and modify widgets to quickly and efficiently develop template driven websites. 

In this course, students will learn the ins and outs of the Wix Editor, build layouts and site structures, add elements and create galleries, interactions, animations and videos. Plus, students will also learn best practices for making your website mobile-friendly to reach a wider audience.

Students will convert HTML websites into WordPress templates and integrate WordPress with custom websites as a Content Management System. Students will install WordPress on a local host and migrate content between local and hosted servers; and look behind the scenes of a functioning website to examine concepts such as cPanel, database creation, and phpMyAdmin to set up and manage their own hosted WordPress website. The course will be delivered through a series of video notes.

This course includes an Introduction to Bubble and Web Development for Bubble. In this course, students will learn how to build apps without code. Bubble is a visual programming language, a no-code development platform and an application platform as a service. By learning this, students do not need to type code to build web applications including social media sites like Twitter, marketplaces like Airbnb and Uber, services like Instacart, and more through study.  Students can learn how to create websites and web applications with more advanced functionality.

In digital marketing, UI design helps build interactive, functional and visually attractive interfaces in different digital marketing channels, such as websites, apps in mobile devices, blog pages, and more. This module introduces core topics in digital marketing that could help UI/UX designers better design products. Also, the course covers some core topics in digital marketing such as SEO, content strategy, content creation and content distribution.

Students will work in the team towards a project to come up with a portfolio to use UI design to influence branding. Students will learn how to create a user-friendly experience for the end user. This means that the UI must be easy to understand and use and must be responsive to the user’s input to increase engagement and conversion rates.

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Running user experience studies on social media
• Collecting user’s feedback on UI/UX decisions

UI/UX designs are informed and impacted by the product decision made by the product manager. It is beneficial if the UI/UX designer can understand the reasoning behind such products decisions. This course is an introductory course to product management and responsibilities of product management and particularly the communication between the product manager and the UI/UX designers.

At the end of the course, the students will be knowledgeable about:

• Developing stages in product design
• Covering product evaluation and assessment