This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design and articulate meaning using color, type, and imagery is essential to making interfaces function clearly and seamlessly. Through a series of lectures and visual exercises, you will focus on the many individual elements and components that make up the skillset of an interface designer. By the end of this course, you will be able to describe the key formal elements of clear, consistent, and intuitive UI design, and apply your learned skills to the design of a static screen-based interface.
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User Interface Design (UI Design)User Experience (UX)Graphic Design
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CalArts has earned an international reputation as the leading college of the visual and performing arts in the United States. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater—CalArts has championed creative excellence, critical reflection, and the development of new forms and expressions.
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30 minutes pour terminer
Course and Specialization Overview
Welcome! In this first module I will summarize the assignments and expectations of this course, as well as the UI/UX Design Specialization.
30 minutes pour terminer
2 vidéos (Total 6 min), 8 lectures
8 lectures
About this course3 min
About the assignments3 min
Instructor Presence and Staff Support 1 min
Forum Guidelines5 min
Requesting Peer Reviews5 min
Academic Integrity2 min
Required Tools2 min
About CalArts and the Program in Graphic Design3 min
2 heures pour terminer
What IS a user interface anyway?
In this first week we will look at some basic broad concepts and contexts for user interfaces, looking at examples both on and off-screen. We will look at basic principles of interaction theory, discuss the relationship between UI and UX, and examine the relationship between coding and designing. We will discuss the roles of functionality and aesthetics in interface design and outline a "form-first" philosophy to user interface design. This week will focus on background information and terminology and will give you the context and vocabulary necessary before you start making great interfaces!
2 heures pour terminer
9 vidéos (Total 44 min), 2 lectures, 2 quiz
9 vidéos
What is a User Interface?3 min
The Relationship Between UI and UX5 min
Roles in UI/UX5 min
A Brief Historical Overview of Interface Design4 min
Interface Conventions: Theory6 min
Interface Conventions: Application7 min
Template vs Content7 min
Aesthetics & Functionality3 min
2 lectures
About UI vs UX graded quiz1 min
Interface Conventions: Review15 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
UI vs UX20 min
Interface Conventions20 min
4 heures pour terminer
Formal Elements of Interface Design
This week we are going to examine the various formal elements that make up an interface. We’ll start out with the larger questions of content, context and audience that frame any UI/UX project. In other words: What is it? Who is it for? And, where does it live? And we’ll look at the big picture of overall design direction, what is often referred to as “look and feel”. From there we’ll go into detail of how the basic components of how visual design works in the context of interface design: language, shape, color, imagery, typography, and icons. These areas will be the formal building blocks you will use to create the more complex visual structure of a screen-based user interface.
4 heures pour terminer
8 vidéos (Total 52 min), 1 lecture, 1 quiz
8 vidéos
Design Before Design4 min
Look and Feel8 min
Language as a design tool5 min
Color and Shape8 min
Imagery7 min
Typography8 min
Icons8 min
1 lecture
Project Brief3 min
5 heures pour terminer
Active Elements of Interface Design
This week we are going to take our static interface elements and begin to think about how a user interacts with them. In other words, how to bring these elements a stage closer to having a life on the screen. We’ll be looking at navigational conventions, such as menus, buttons, and icons in different states. Our focus will move from what the graphic interface looks like, to include how it works and how it responds to the user. By adding interactivity to our static designs, the idea is to think more deeply about the role the designer plays in shaping a user’s interactive experience.
5 heures pour terminer
8 vidéos (Total 53 min), 4 lectures, 1 quiz
8 vidéos
Static to Active1 min
Functionality8 min
Speed and Style7 min
Composition and Structure7 min
Buttons7 min
Not Buttons12 min
States and Changes7 min
4 lectures
Try it Yourself: Define the Interaction15 min
Pattern Libraries10 min
Designing Better Buttons10 min
Try it Yourself: Examine an interface10 min
5 heures pour terminer
Composing the Elements of Interface Design
This week we are going to take our individual interface components and see what happens when we try to put them together into a more complex structure. We’ll be looking at how to get our components to work harmoniously as a family, figuring out how hierarchy works in the interface, and discussing conventions and expectations of contemporary interface design. We’ll also be examining how to navigate to different screens and how to build visual relationships between different kinds of content within a single site. Finally, we’ll be discussing different platforms, how to create variable content for different screen sizes, and looking at how to organize complex bodies of content into user-friendly structures.
5 heures pour terminer
7 vidéos (Total 41 min), 2 lectures, 1 quiz
7 vidéos
Invisible Complexity: Making a Whole from Many Parts2 min
Hierarchy of Content7 min
Conventions and Expectations6 min
Structure and Grids10 min
Platforms and Screen Sizes4 min
Putting it All Together: Slice 'n' Dice7 min
2 lectures
Try it yourself: UI Inventory20 min
Next Steps2 min
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Meilleurs avis pour VISUAL ELEMENTS OF USER INTERFACE DESIGN
par JN20 nov. 2018
I never thought this is possible. I am very grateful to Coursera and Calarts. This is a starting milestone to changing my career life for better. I am ready to pursue more and more with your support.
par BB31 mars 2020
This course is very useful for a beginner who is looking for the basics of UI/UX course. This course will give you the basic idea of interface design which very important for its advanced studies.
par LT18 oct. 2018
This course is a good start for the beginner. I hope everyone in the class enjoyed it as I do. Thanks all of my classmates who have reviewed my peers. I look forward seeing you in the next course.
par RK31 août 2020
Very Nice course, this has helped me to grow and learn more about the world of User Interface Design. It has developed and increased my enthusiasm and interest moe and more in the field of UX/ Ui.
À propos du Spécialisation UI / UX Design
The UI/UX Design Specialization brings a design-centric approach to user interface and user experience design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective, rather than on one focused on marketing or programming alone. In this sequence of four courses, you will summarize and demonstrate all stages of the UI/UX development process, from user research to defining a project’s strategy, scope, and information architecture, to developing sitemaps and wireframes. You’ll learn current best practices and conventions in UX design and apply them to create effective and compelling screen-based experiences for websites or apps.
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