Hello and welcome to CUIF-111: Content Design & Navigation!
- Times: Tuesdays 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
- Location: Room C4240 (4th Floor)
- Term start date: October 7, 2025
- Term end date: December 2, 2025
- No class November 11, 2025
What you will learn:
This course explores how content-first design and user needs shape effective navigation systems. You will examine how information architecture, content hierarchy, and user research inform semantic labeling and content prioritization. Through case studies and design exercises, you will investigate a range of navigation patterns and apply UI principles to create clear, accessible and responsive experiences. By the end of the course, you will design and document a complete navigation experience, including interface components, user flows, and specifications for implementation.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Apply key navigation principles, including hierarchy, pathways, flow, affordance, feedback, and consistency
- Analyze user needs and behaviours to inform content and navigation decisions
- Plan and structure effective information architecture
- Design a comprehensive navigation UI system that supports clarity and usability
- Apply accessibility and responsive design principles to improve navigation
- Evaluate and iterate on designs using user research and feedback
- Create documentation and deliverables such as content maps, wireframes and specifications to support design implementation
Before class starts, please create a figma.com account (sign-up for free with your ECUAD email: YourName@ecuad.ca)
Course image source: https://assets.justinmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/navigation-design-patterns.png
- Teacher: Marjolein Visser