About this course: In this course, you will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You'll learn several techniques for rapidly prototyping and evaluating multiple interface alternatives -- and why rapid prototyping and comparative evaluation are essential to excellent interaction design. You'll learn how to conduct fieldwork with people to help you get design ideas. How to make paper prototypes and low-fidelity mock-ups that are interactive -- and how to use these designs to get feedback from other stakeholders like your teammates, clients, and users. Armed with these design-thinking strategies, you’ll be able to do more creative human-centered design in any domain.
Created by: University of California, San Diego
Taught by: Scott Klemmer, Associate Professor
Cognitive Science & Computer Science
| Basic Info |
Course 1 of 8 in the
Interaction Design Specialization.
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| Commitment | 4 weeks, 3-4 hours/week |
| Language | English, Subtitles: Spanish |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Introduction
A brief introduction to the topics and goals of this Interaction Design Specialization
6 videos, 6 readings
WEEK 2
Needfinding
This module’s videos and assignment cover a really important topic: where can you get good design ideas from? Ideas that help you create meaningful designs that have a real impact on real people’s lives. Of course, good ideas come from lots of places. And wher...
4 videos, 1 reading, 1 practice quiz
Graded: Interviewing People to Find Latent Needs
WEEK 3
Rapid Prototyping
This module's lectures introduce storyboarding and several strategies and media for rapid prototyping, including paper, Wizard of Oz, and video. An important part of the creativity of a designer is to think about how you can rapidly prototype and get feedback...
4 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Storyboarding Design Ideas
WEEK 4
Heuristic Evaluation
With this module's videos, we turn our focus from brainstorming and prototyping to the concrete elements of interaction design. We introduce ten key principles of good design -- like the importance of feedback and helping people recover from errors. We call t...
5 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Heuristic Evaluation
Graded: Cumulative Quiz
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Ratings and Reviews
it was helpful to understand the real UX
This is the first online course I have ever taken, so I might be being too harsh relative to other courses out there. However I think this course would benefit from more homework. I think Scott explained many things that were not necessarily applied in the assignments, and I believe putting all he said in action would be the best way to learn it. So I think more homework would be good :)
Otherwhise very well explained, great videos!
Content is good but aesthetics could be worked upon.
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