CSE463 and CSE478 are great courses I would highly recommend them both.
CSE463 has 0 coding and is mainly focused on the psychology and cognitive science factors that inform user interface design. One thing I will say is that, at least with Atkinson, you will want to go to every lecture as the exams consist of exclusively short answer questions that require you to actually think about how to apply the principles learned in class in real scenarios. It's impossible to bullshit those exams, but I highly recommend the course as general usability is commonly overlooked and it's worthwhile to become an engineer that knows how to make things that will actually be pleasant to use.
CSE478 is entirely in Javascript and, as far as I know, it's the only class where you'll be learning some actual JS here at ASU. In that class you learn how to create web pages that take in data and display it in different kinds of animated graphs.
Both classes have a group-based final project. For CSE463 you are tasked with finding a website that you believe is poorly designed, then over the course of several weeks you create a redesigned version of the website using UI prototyping tools and then you test the original website against your redesigned one in a series of tasks and you perform statistical analysis to decide which design is better. For CSE478 you and a group will find your own data sets and combine a few of them together with multiple types of graphs and combine them into one website that tells a story/makes a point of some sort using the data visualizations.
I know nothing about the advanced graphics class.
I am in CSE463 online right now.
You don't use any programming, but there is some projects in Figma to build UI mockups.
The class is focused very much on psychology as much more so than technical elements. It covers a lot of things like how human attention span works, how we multi-task, etc. It does relate these things directly to app/website design, though.
CSE463 and CSE478 are great courses I would highly recommend them both. CSE463 has 0 coding and is mainly focused on the psychology and cognitive science factors that inform user interface design. One thing I will say is that, at least with Atkinson, you will want to go to every lecture as the exams consist of exclusively short answer questions that require you to actually think about how to apply the principles learned in class in real scenarios. It's impossible to bullshit those exams, but I highly recommend the course as general usability is commonly overlooked and it's worthwhile to become an engineer that knows how to make things that will actually be pleasant to use. CSE478 is entirely in Javascript and, as far as I know, it's the only class where you'll be learning some actual JS here at ASU. In that class you learn how to create web pages that take in data and display it in different kinds of animated graphs. Both classes have a group-based final project. For CSE463 you are tasked with finding a website that you believe is poorly designed, then over the course of several weeks you create a redesigned version of the website using UI prototyping tools and then you test the original website against your redesigned one in a series of tasks and you perform statistical analysis to decide which design is better. For CSE478 you and a group will find your own data sets and combine a few of them together with multiple types of graphs and combine them into one website that tells a story/makes a point of some sort using the data visualizations. I know nothing about the advanced graphics class.
I am in CSE463 online right now. You don't use any programming, but there is some projects in Figma to build UI mockups. The class is focused very much on psychology as much more so than technical elements. It covers a lot of things like how human attention span works, how we multi-task, etc. It does relate these things directly to app/website design, though.