App Design & Development
The Minor Program App Design & Development provides an introduction and practical experience in interaction design and front-end development of mobile applications. More and more industries require interdisciplinary know-how, that is knowledge that merges design and development skills, for example, to create new experiences such as mobile apps, games, virtual reality experiences or automotive apps. This Minor focuses on practice-oriented HCI, which is a Human Centred Iterative interaction design approach. Each semester there are a number of projects students will be able to subscribe to. Due to the close proximity to the automotive industry in Stuttgart, there will be at least one project working directly with an automotive partner.
Build Your App Portfolio
- Appreciate, understand and apply an iterative user centred design approach (prototyping, usability, testing & experience design evaluation using eye tracker software)
- Use innovation management, creativity tools and conceptual design approaches for the development & quick iterative testing of ideas (incl. competition and domain analysis)
- Prototype using state of the art instant prototyping solutions
- Design and develop front-end applications, especially mobile apps
- Work out examples that can be used for a personal portfolio. This will increase students’ chances to find employment within the creative software design development industries.
About programs
Exchange students are able to choose from a variety of English-taught Minor Programs. Each Minor is a one semester long set program. Most Minors run every semester, and normally consist of 30 ECTS credits. 1 ECTS credit normally equals approximately 30 hours of work. Please note that it is NOT possible to pick and mix courses from different Minors. In order to be admitted to one of our Minors, we expect students to have a language level of B2 or higher in English (non-native speakers need to include proof of language proficiency in their application documents).
* Please note: Besides the following general courses, you need to choose one of the three elective courses. We can not guarantee, that all courses are available for exchange students every semester.
General courses
| Module name | ECTS |
| Mobile Interaction Design | 5 |
| Usability Engineering | 5 |
| Innovation Management | 5 |
| lnterdisciplinary Project | 8 |
| German Language Course | 2 |
Elective courses (choose one)
| Module name | ECTS |
| Mobile Web Applications | 5 |
| Cloud-Services and Internet of Things | 6 |
| Game Design | 6 |
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