Ux100 Mc1: Design Thinking I: Foundations

3 days ago

Milton, Canada Wilfrid Laurier University Full time

**Date**:May 26, 2025

**Location**: Milton, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Liberal Arts

**Department**: User Experience Design

**Campus**: Milton

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:9610

**Position Title**: UX100 MC1: Design Thinking I: Foundations

**Term**: Fall 2025 (September 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025)

**Days/Times**: Tuesday and Thursday 1:00pm - 2:20pm

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3 per week/36 total

**Type of Course**: In-Class

**Anticipated Class Size**: 30

**Additional Course Requirements**: None

**Posted on**: Monday May 26, 2025

**Posting ends**: Monday July 9, 2025

**Position Summary**: This course is an introduction to the theories and methods that underpin design thinking and practice. UX100 introduces the design process, visual analysis, design theories, universal design, and the socio-cultural implications of design. Students investigate the interactions between humans and their natural, social, and designed environments where purposeful design helps determine the quality of those interactions. Students will learn how design outcomes, whether successes or failures, shape and are shaped by socio/cultural and historical factors. Students of design thinking will learn to critically assess the processes, outcomes and effects of design engagement. During the course, students will have opportunities to test and explore the concepts of design thinking through small-group, hands-on participation in design projects.

**Qualifications - Required Degree**: Master’s Degree

**Qualifications - Other**:

- PhD Preferred
- Experience teaching or providing training in any of the following: Design Thinking, Design Sprints, User-Centered Design
- Two or more years’ professional experience in a UX, Design Thinking or User-Centered Design
- Two or more years’ experience teaching at the college or university level

**Salary**: $9206.40(Stipend)

**Application Deadline**: Monday July 9, 2025

**Submit with Application**:
Required for All Applicants
- CV with current contact information (required)

Specifically for External Applicants
- Names and Contact Information for Referees
- Evidence of Good Teaching/Official Course Evaluations

Optional
- Cover Letter
- Teaching Dossier
- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

**Applications may be addressed to**:
Dr. Kathryn Carter

Chair, Part-time Appointment Committee

User Experience Design

Faculty of Liberal Arts

Wilfrid Laurier University

**To Apply**:
**Please Note**:
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