GAME 410 Interactive System Design

4 credits

This course explores the fundamental principles of interactive design; visual communication and the psychological principles related to design; human perception, memory, and cognitive flow; and conceptual approaches to visual systems. Students will develop the conceptual, analog, and digital skills and tools needed to design, build, and evaluate games and interactive experience systems. Labs will include flowcharting information architecture, storyboarding intuitive user interface and user experience, and rapid interface prototyping techniques.

Prerequisites: GAME 330, GAME 332, and GAME 335

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Analyze and evaluate interactive experiences
Design compelling interactive experiences
Create game designs employing psychological principles
Design interaction experiences using visual communication principles
Integrate psychological principles into game design
Conceptualize and display visual systems
Flowchart information architecture
Storyboard intuitive user interface
Rapidly prototype interface designs
Master analog and digital design tools

Total Hours: 60 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 20 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 40