Contents

Name of Skill Classification of Skill Prerequisites for Skill Related Software Engineering Areas(s) Rationale for Skill Roles for Skill Work Related To Skill Real World Example Role of Academia/Industry Tools supporting the skill Skill Self Assessment References



Role of Academia or Industry in Cultivating the Skill

  • The book - Beyond Human Computer Interaction teaches in depth about the engineering involved along with the skill of designing interfaces, academia talks about how usuability principles and design principles shape and define certain thumb rules to make a system interfaces interactive. Academia is also a place where users from various fields amalgamate together. For example, User interface design is heavily dependant on the emotional, psychological and cognitive aspects. Sometimes, interfaces are inspired by the demography as well. Academia brings people from all trade to come together, exchhange ideas and come up with great ideas.
  • Related work in the industry gives us the scope to experiment things out, get reviews from peers and other stakholders and re-evaluate. This feedback cycle actually sharpens the skill within us.

Tools Supporting the Skill

Although loosely coupled, interface has been placed into many catagories, some of the tools used for interface designing are :

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe XD
  • Sketch
  • InVision Studio
  • Framer X
  • Unity
  • CRYENGINE

Skill Self-Assessment (My Skill Score (1 – 10) and Reasons for Self-Assigned Score)

7

Reason:

I have had academic as well as working experience in designing user interfaces for web and mobile phone applications collaborating with various clients - gathering requirements, analyzing them and develop solutions accordingly. I belive in having a good aesthtic sense and a thirst to enhance interaction within interfaces and human centric users. Although I have not yet received an oppurtunity to work on VR , AR models , game interfaces. I hope to able to learn more deeply in this ever evolving field.


References

  • SWEBOK3
  • SWECOM
  • csform.com - 9 best ui design tools for 2019/
  • https://www.hyperlinkinfosystem.com/blog/top-10-essential-skills-every-uiux-designer-should-have
  • https://www.devteam.space/blog/10-great-tools-for-vr-development/
  • https://designmodo.com/interaction-design/
  • https://www.cleverism.com/job-profiles/interaction-designer/#:~:text=The%20role%20of%20the%20Interaction,the%20user%20interacts%20with%20perfectly.&text=The%20Interaction%20Designer%20works%20closely,users%20of%20the%20business's%20product.
  • Beyond Human Computer Interaction, 5th Edition