PROD151-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

The Digital Product Lifecycle

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course provides students with a holistic introduction to the core processes and principles of digital product design, from research and ideation, experiment-led prototyping, UX and UI design, through to testing, validation and customer feedback. Students will gain familiarity with the challenges faced by digital product teams in balancing user needs with technology and business constraints, and gain practical experience in solving product problems through design. Students will learn the basics of low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototyping using Figma and Web Platform technologies including CSS and JavaScript, in order to iteratively develop and test their designs for web, desktop, and mobile contexts.

Course Coordinator

Mark Rickerby

Course Administrator

Alison Lowery

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
User Experience 1 (Mental Models) 20% User Experience 1 (Mental Models)
User Experience 2 (Journey Mapping) 20% User Experience 2 (Journey Mapping)
Interaction Design 1 (Task Flows) 20% Interaction Design 1 (Task Flows)
Interaction Design 2 (Components) 20% Interaction Design 2 (Components)
Reflection notebook 10% Reflection notebook
Quizzes 10% Quizzes

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,122.00

International fee $6,238.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Product Design .

All PROD151 Occurrences

  • PROD151-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025