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Leon Hui

Continuing Studies Instructor

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Bio

Leon Hui is a Senior Service and User Experience Designer with over 15 years of experience in agency and in-house roles. He has led digital design initiatives at TransLink and other companies including Yahoo!, Yellow Pages, Indigo and Hudson’s Bay Company. He designs equitable, accessible services by aligning user needs with organizational objectives. Leon holds an Honours Bachelor of Design from York University and is a Certified SAFe 6 Agile Product Manager. Based in Vancouver, he enjoys the outdoors, tennis and volleyball, exploring painting and studying different languages.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
UX / UI Design CSUX 110 CS26/SU

Description

Digital tools are essential assets in today's career landscape across most industries. This course covers the fundamental tools and workflows used by UX/UI designers. Learn technical skills for designing interfaces and experiences for digital platforms, including mobile devices and other interactive systems. You will apply critical thinking to create prototypes and test ideas and concepts. The course also explores processes used in visual design for prototyping. Discover iterative design guided by user testing and securing buy-in from stakeholders, team members, and other decision makers.

Material List: Be prepared for your course. Download the material list to source and purchase your supplies before your first class.

Upon successfully completing this course, students will receive a digital skills badge through Accredible, a digital credentialing service. To learn more about Accredible or to opt-out of receiving a digital badge for CS courses, please complete this online form.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Design Core Skills CSDS 112 CS26/SU

Description

Human-centered design is an empathetic, human-focused approach to problem-solving. This course introduces common design concepts, how to identify human focused problems through diverse research, and problem solving strategies. Through research and practice-based approaches, you will learn to empathize with humans, to ensure solutions address key biases, and co-create solutions to fit their identified needs. Using human-centered strategies, this course will equip you with knowledge to co-create inclusive, innovative solutions that fit the humans' needs and contexts. Useful across organizations or projects in any domain, human-centered design thinking strategies can begin to frame human-centric, long-term solutions, no matter your area of practice or expertise.

Material List: Be prepared for your course. Download the material list to source and purchase your supplies before your first class.

Upon successfully completing this course, students will receive a digital skills badge through Accredible, a digital credentialing service. To learn more about Accredible or to opt-out of receiving a digital badge for CS courses, please complete this online form.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.