Meeting & Agendas

Members present: Jenny Magic, Principal/VP Content Strategy, SiteGoals Amanda Moon, UI/UX Designer, SiteGoals Theresa Neil, UX Designer and author Michael Stewart, Senior UX Designer, IBM Stephanie Cain, UX & Visual Designer, Monkee-Boy Web Design, Inc. James Fleeting, Senior Web Builder, Monkey-Boy Web Design, Inc. Michelle Trudo, UX Designer, Projekt202 Members absent: Alec Oliver, Software Developer, Pearson Education Oscar Llarena, Experience Director/UX, T3 Faculty / Staff Present: Gail Bayeta, Department Chair David Correa, Web & Interactive Section Leader Marc Bonasso, Full-time Faculty Kris Lott, Adjunct Faculty Alida McCullough, Administrative Assistant Lorraine Lebeau-Carter, Administrative Assistant Faculty Absent: Linda Smarzik, Dean, Computer Science & Advanced Technology Introductions / Welcome: All committee members and faculty introduced themselves and were welcomed.

This topic will be part of the survey I will add the learning outcomes for the classes to the survey as well. Request feedback on classroom versus hybrid and online classes. Consensus is to decide what would work best on a class by class basis.

Vote to adjourn the meeting. ACTION: Michelle Trudo made a motion to adjourn the meeting Amanda Moon seconded the motion Meeting adjourned at 9:00pm

Both Jenny Magic and Michelle Trudo volunteered to be officers for 2014. Michelle Trudo: Vice-Chair Jenny Magic: Chair ACTION: Motion to approve officers was made by Stephanie Cain Motion seconded by James Fleeting, motion passed unanimously

Review minutes from meeting of July 15, 2009 ACTION: Motion was made to approve minutes by Stephanie Cain Motion approved by James Fleeting and passed unanimously

State Law SB 497: The law was passed last year mandating that all Associate Degrees in Texas have to be cut back to 60 credit hours, no more no less. Austin Competency Analysis Profile (ACAP): A focus group consisting of people employed in all areas of the web/interactive design industry with varying levels of experience. The group gave us input on learning competencies and objectives. ACTION: Our current degree plan is 70, so we must create a new degree plan cutting 10 credit hours based on SB 497 and the ACAP information.

IDUX 1271 Survey of Interactive Media: A two credit hour survey course to give students an introduction to the user experience design industry and what all that entails. Course will not require software experience. Notes: Committee suggested to call the class Survey of User Experience. IDUX 1471 Prototyping 1: A four credit hour course. The first course to teach software skills in programs such as Keynote, Balsamic, Axure, Omni Tools. This will be the introductory Prototyping class preparing students for Prototyping 2. Notes: Committee suggested limiting software use and focusing on the foundations of prototyping such as sketching, problem solving, journey mapping, tasks lists, and idea generation. IDUX 2474 Prototyping 2: A four credit hour course where the students will further develop the skills taught in Prototyping 1, developing and prototyping concepts and presenting those ideas in a professional way. This class will be offered in semester three. Notes: Committee suggests adding testing and validation. IDUX 1472 User Interface Design 1: A four credit hour course taking place of the previous Interface Design course, but will instead focus more heavily on UI patterns and will have a heavy mobile emphasis. Right now with 60 credit hour degree there is no room for IOS development and design. IDUX 2471 User Interface Design 2: A four credit hour course further developing the concepts introduced in Interface Design 1. Notes: Michelle Trudo suggested avoiding the Adobe Creative Suite and sticking to pen and paper or OmniGraffle. IDUX 1473 Responsive Design 1 & 2 Responsive Design 1 & 2 would replace Web Design 1 & 2. Students will learn essential HTML & CSS at the beginning and move into frameworking. The courses will also focus on developing for mobile, such as scaling and hiding content. IDUX 1371 Visual Design: A three credit hour course introducing students to visual design as it relates to interactive technology software. (May hold this class for another degree.) Notes: Committee discussed the possibility of integrating and shifting some of the focus to more of the parameters of production for mobile operating systems. David Correa pointed out that the class will focus on creating assets for a product and understanding the parameters for creating assets for different devices, not true interface design. Gail Bayeta suggested rethinking the content to style guides, platform research, mood boards, less conceptual and more practical. Theresa Neil suggested adding more validating and testing of prototypes. IDUX 2473 User Experience 1: UX 1 will be a prep class teaching skills necessary for the project class UX 2. IDUX 2473 User Experience 2: UX 2 will further develop the skills learned in UX 1 and will have more of an emphasis on collaboration and projects with outside companies. The students will meet and work through the process with real clients. In the future (Highland Mall), we hope to use the class as an incubator and that the industry will bring projects to students. Notes: Theresa Neil suggested there should be some team building in UX 1.

New degree: Discussion of establishing a new degree in Interaction Design and voted to establish each new course. ACTION: Michael Stewart motioned to rename degree to User Experience Design. Stephanie Cain seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. New courses: Committee needs to vote on the classes for the general framework Proposed classes IDUX will now be UXDD Survey of User Experience Prototyping 1 User Interface Design 1 Responsive Design1 Visual Design Prototyping 2 User Interface Design 2 Responsive Design 2 User Experience Design 1 User Experience Design2 Portfolio Design ACTION: Amanda Moon made a motion to establish the courses as the new curriculum James Fleeting seconded the motion Motion passed unanimously.

Committee needs to vote to close the old degree and adopt the new degree as well as to close the old certificate and adopt the new certificate. ACTION: Michael Stewart moved to close the old degree and adopt the new degree Amanda Moon seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

Results of a survey of what day to day tools are being used. Notes: Theresa Neil noted that there are were only six responses and suggested that the survey needs to be more broad. Michael Stewart offered to distribute this at the studio.

Questions for discussion: What degrees do people that are working in this skill typically hold? Are we aware of any colleges offering a similar degree Do any of the new courses require skills or education that are different from the other courses. Notes: Gail Bayeta noted that SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) only allows the hiring of instructors with degrees relevant to content that they are teaching. A survey of instructors is needed to determine if there are instructors available to teach the new prototyping courses, possibly in other departments, based on their qualifications. Jenny Magic suggested it may be easier to decide on instructors after a survey is taken.