- UX theory with a focus on user experience
- UX tools and UX technology
- Perspectives and experiences from professional UX designers
- Methods for evaluating experience
- Critical perspectives on UX
DM2630 User Experience Design and Evaluation 9.0 credits
This course is developed as a advanced level topic in interaction design, and it builds upon techniques and topics covered in courses such as Interactive Media Technology, or Interaction Design Methods. It assumes knowledge and skills in user-centred design, the double diamond design process, and familiarity or willingness to learn how to use wireframing tools like Figma.
During this course we will cover industry-relevant topics in user experience including personalisation, motivation and uncertainty. You will develop an understanding of different perspective on 'experience', tools and processes for designing and evaluating experience, and insights into how industry currently approaches user experience. You will also read, discuss and synthesise critiques of user experience from the perspective of gender, race, accessibility and sustainability. We hope that by the end of this course you will have a good understanding of how user experience is practiced in industry, and can discuss these practices in relation to academic work on experience. We anticipate that you will be able to design, evaluate and critique experiences across a range of different contexts and technologies using tools and methods covered in this course. Finally, you will be able to provide well grounded and evidenced arguments against particular approach to design of experience based on the potential for injustice or negative disparities in experience for marginalized communities.
Information per course offering
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Information for Autumn 2025 uxdesign programme students
- Course location
KTH Campus
- Duration
- 25 Aug 2025 - 12 Jan 2026
- Periods
- P1 (4.5 hp), P2 (4.5 hp)
- Pace of study
33%
- Application code
51527
- Form of study
Normal Daytime
- Language of instruction
English
- Course memo
- Course memo is not published
- Number of places
Places are not limited
- Target group
Open for all programs from year 3, and for students admitted to a master's program, provided that the course can be included in the program.
- Planned modular schedule
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- Schedule
- Schedule is not published
Contact
Course syllabus as PDF
Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.
Course syllabus DM2630 (Autumn 2022–)Headings with content from the Course syllabus DM2630 (Autumn 2022–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- give an account of theory, methods and technology for user experience (UX)
- identify and describe challenges in UX associated with emerging technologies and social needs
- critically reflect on the impact of UX technologies on marginalized groups, especially groups defined by gender, race, and disability.
- analyse and compare interactive products with respect to experiential qualities
- apply UX theory, methods, technologies and practice in development of systems
- reflect on how design work is influenced by the aim/starting point
- argue for and criticize design choices in their own work and the work of others from a UX perspective
in order to:
- be able to evaluate and choose theories, concepts, technologies and methods in relation to a problem statement
- independently be able to develop systems with good/wanted experiential qualities
- be able to anticipate probable consequences of design decision for marginalized groups
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Knowledge in human computer interaction, 7.5 higher education credits, equivalent completed course DM2601/DH2628
Literature
You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
P, F
Examination
- INL1 - Assignment, reflection, 1.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- PRO1 - Project 1, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- PRO2 - Project 2, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- PRO3 - Project 3, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- PRO4 - Project 4, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course room in Canvas
Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.
Offered by
Main field of study
Computer Science and Engineering
Education cycle
Second cycle
Supplementary information
In this course, the EECS code of honor applies, see:
http://www.kth.se/en/eecs/utbildning/hederskodex