Instructor Information
| Name | : | Terry Sergeant | Office Hours | ||
| : | tsergeant@hsutx.edu | MW | 8:30–10:00; 2:30–3:30 | ||
| Office | : | AH 104 | TTh | 8:30–9:30; 2:40–3:40 | |
| Phone | : | 325-660-7802 | Fri | 8:30–10:00 | |
| Web Site | : | https://josephus.sergeantservices.com | |||
NOTE: Office hours and office location are valid for weeks the instructor is on campus and the course has a face-to-face format. For the other weeks office hours will be held online by appointment.
Summary
| Description | : | A study of the design and implementation of the user-interface/user-experience. The course will present fundamentals of usability and human factors in application design. Students will use this knowledge to build applications to understand the user-interface and entire user-experience. |
| Prerequisites | : | CSCI 2320 and Sophomore standing |
| Textbook | : | None required. |
Course Objectives
Students who satisfactorily complete this course will (hopefully) be able to:- list common steps and patterns in the process of designing a user experience
- demonstrate fluency in the terms and concepts widely used in the discipline
- use contemporary software to produce design artifacts
- utilize a design system in an application
- build applications to conform to a provided design
Grading
Your grade in the course will be earned / calculated as follows:| checkins | 5% | |
| lab days | 10% | |
| homework | 35% | |
| midterm exam | 25% | |
| final exam | 25% |
| A |  |
90 | – | 100 |
| B | |
80 | – | 89 |
| C | |
70 | – | 79 |
| D | |
60 | – | 69 |
| F | |
0 | – | 59 |
Overall Course Structure and Online Checkins
A typical week in this course will work as follows:- Monday 11:59pm homework is due.
- Tuesday 10:30-11:45 is a lecture period.
- Thursday 10:30-11:45 is a lab day period.
During the first three weeks of the semester and the two weeks following Spring break, the instructor will be on-campus and the lectures and lab days will be in-person in the classroom with the instructor present.
During weeks for which the instructor is not on campus, lectures will continue to be provided via a Team's meeting link. The lab days, however, will continue to take place in-person in the classroom, but will include a live video session using the classroom camera so students will have access to the instructor throughout.
Link for online lectures and labdays: https://josephus.sergeantservices.com/meeting_room/ui
Attending online lectures is mandatory with 5 points attached to each meeting time. To receive all 5 points at an online meeting you must do all of the following:
- Connect to the UI/UX Teams Meeting Room link given above before the
start of the session.
- Participate appropriately in the session with your camera on and
remaining engaged until the session is dismissed by the instructor.
- Participating appropriately means you will be in the same place the
entire time and you will be in a non-distracting environment in which
you are able to take notes and participate without having to
periodically turn off your camera and attend to other things. If you
you are unable to comply with this at home then you will need to physically
come to the classroom where we meet face-to-face for the online checkins.
- The point of these guidelines is to foster an environment conducive to learning. If you think of some tweak that will add distraction for you or others then you should not do that.
You will lose a point for each minute you are not present (not to exceed 5 deductions in a checkin session). You will also lose points if you are not in a distraction-free environment or if the instructor has to ask you to turn on your camera.
Lab Days
Most Thursdays will be designated as a “lab day” in which we will spend some time working on assignments and group work during the class period. Your grade is based on attendance and participation. As with the instructions pertaining to online checkins, you can earn up to 5 points per lab day period with the grade representing a combination of being present the entire time and participating appropriately.If you know in advance you will have to be absent on a lab day you can receive credit by doing the following:
- By midnight on Wednesday:
- Attach a message to the lab day assignment in Canvas letting me know you will be absent.
- Spend an hour and a half on homework and commit that work to your repository. Make sure your repo has been pushed to the cloud for evaluation.
- Communicate your status with your team members.
Homework Assignments
A homework assignment is considered late if it is not submitted at or before the . Late homework assignments will receive a 20% point penalty and must be completed within a week or the original due date. Assignments that miss the one week deadline will receive a grade of 0 (unless there are extenuating circumstances).In order to do well on the exams it will be necessary for each student to work homework assignments independently. On each assignment a list of allowed resources is provided. You may only use resources specifically named on that list. Failure to abide by this requirement is considered a violation of the academic integrity policy of the university and will be handled in accordance with university guidelines.
Exams
Exams are comprehensive. The final exam will take place at the scheduled time during finals week. Exams will never be collaborative in nature so receiving any form of assistance from anyone other than the instructor is a violation of the academic integrity policy. You may only use study aids during the exam if they are expressly allowed by the instructor for that particular exam.
Students with Disabilities
An individual with a disability is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a “person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.” Any student with a documented disability may choose to seek accommodations. Eligible students seeking accommodation should contact the Director of Undergraduate Advising and Disabilities as soon as possible in the academic term (preferably during the first two weeks of a long semester) for which they are seeking accommodations. The director will prepare letters to appropriate faculty members concerning specific, reasonable academic adjustments for the student. The student is responsible for delivering accommodation letters and conferring with faculty members. Please refer to the most recent version of the Undergraduate Catalog for the complete policy. (Carol Krueger, Director of Undergraduate Advising and Disabilities, Office: Sandefer Memorial, 1st floor Academic Advising Center, Phone: 325-670-5867, Email: disabilityservices@hsutx.edu)
Student Support
Peer-to-peer academic support (tutoring) is available for all undergraduate HSU students. The Academic Center for Enrichment (ACE) is open for virtual tutoring sessions via Zoom. To access instructions or make an appointment, open the ACE course on your Canvas dashboard. For additional information regarding academic support, contact the Advising Center at 325-670-1480 or tutoring@hsutx.edu.In addition, all full or part-time students are eligible to receive free, confidential, and voluntary counseling services at HSU. Services include consultation, evaluation, counseling, and crisis support services for students facing issues impacting their overall well-being. To obtain any of these services, students may call The Office of Counseling Services at (325) 671-2272, email counseling@hsutx.edu, or begin the intake process by completing our online forms at:https://www.hsutx.edu/intake.
Computer Account Use
The instructor may occasionally use email to communicate with the class as a whole or with individuals. When contacting you for this course the instructor will use your HSU email account. You are expected to check your HSU email account at least once per day and you will be held responsible for any content distributed in this way.
Attendance
Regarding class attendance, the Undergraduate Catalog states:Accordingly, absence from more than 25 percent of class meetings and/or laboratory sessions scheduled for a course (including absences because of athletic participation) is regarded as excessive, and a grade of F may be assigned as deemed appropriate by the professor.
Course Calendar and Class Structure
We will utilize Canvas to provide outline for the course. Do take notice of these planned exam dates:
| Date | Event | |
| Tue 17 Mar | Midterm Exam | |
| Tue 05 May | Final Exam (at 10:30am) |