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About the Course

The focus of this course is to introduce the learner to User Experience (UX) Design User Experience design is design that is user centered. The goal is to design artifacts that allow the users to meet their needs in the most effective efficient and satisfying manner. The course introduces the novice to a cycle of discovery and evaluation and a set of techniques that meet the user's needs. This course is geared toward the novice. It is for learners that have heard about "user experience" or "user interface" design but don't really know much about these disciplines. The course mantra is that “Design is a systematic and data driven process.” Design is systematic because it is based on a set of techniques and also on a cycle of discovery. In this course the learner is introduced to the four step user interface design cycle. Along the way learners are exposed to a set of techniques to gather information about a) what the user needs b)how to design and model interfaces based on these and then how to evaluate the design to ascertain that the user's goals are met. These techniques are tools that are used in a standardized manner and give us the data we use in our design. This means that anyone (regardless of their current training) that is willing to learn these techniques and follow the proposed cycle can be a UX designer!...

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SW

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Excellent as an introductory course, with concepts explained clearly and succinctly. A few more case studies or practical examples may have been beneficial, but overall this course is excellent.

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As a novice I've found this course to be clear and concise. To put it in course terms, it's useful and usable. I would have liked it to go into a little bit more detail, hence the 4 stars and not 5.

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By K L

Aug 19, 2020

The content is shallow, the course will be better if it incorporates real case studies and the application of UX design tools. Anyways, this is generally nice for a free course.

By Theresa K

Dec 12, 2020

I am a total beginner. It was nice to receive an overview. The slides were not helpful and I had a hard time to follow - needed to focus very well (which is also good, ofc ;))

By Rateb A D

Mar 24, 2021

Concepts are very high-level and instructor seems to be reading from the slides.

If you like to read you won't miss anything if you just read the transcript at your own pace.

By Aditya S

Jul 9, 2020

1 - Needs More Animations and better visuals

2 - Some videos that are 8 or 9 mins long can be broken down into smaller videos of 4-5 mins

3 - Needs better real Life examples.

By Dana P

Aug 10, 2020

Very basic. Good if you just want to understand terms and how the process works at a high-level. Not good if you are interested in learning how to actually do any of this.

By Mark B

Jun 10, 2022

Some of the language was a bit over my head. And some industry related concepts discussed had little to no introduction, I had to look some tings up in another browser.

By Kiki C

Oct 17, 2020

Would like to engage with more hands-on applications of the ideas presented. Sometimes difficult to connect the academic, abstract taxonomy with real-world processes.

By Luka T

Mar 19, 2020

I expected a bit more from the introductory course. I gained a slight better understanding of what user experience is all about, but I hoped to gain a deeper insight.

By Nguyen N L H

Oct 15, 2021

very basic concepts and theories. good to have a quick into to the field but not enough to have some applicable knowledge. true to its name 'intro to UX design'

By Tanasup S

Sep 16, 2021

This course is great for who never learn about UX but it is too easy for person who learned some of this knowledge before. Some reading website is not active.

By Amy G

Feb 7, 2023

Good introductory course on basic UX concepts and design lifecycle, but perhaps a little outdated. That said, I good starting point for a short free course.

By Nikhil S

Oct 28, 2016

While the course is basic, the tests don't test user concepts (for example the order of the 4 step design process is asked 10+ times through the 5 modules)

By Fabiana R

Sep 24, 2022

i feel like it is a bit misleading that upon compleation you are awarded a certificate, when in reality they an you to drop an additional 50 bucks.

By Mercedes A

Oct 3, 2020

Good introduction, I felt that a lot of the material was mostly common sense, nothing really new. (For the average unexperienced in design person.

By Suraj T

Sep 18, 2020

Just the right amount of complexity for a beginner. However, the delivery was rather uninspiring. But that might come down to personal taste.

By ruby b

Sep 20, 2020

Its a good theory course but would be fun if more practical examples are given with some creative use of infographics or any other media.

By Roxie W

Mar 6, 2017

Lean too heavily towards theory instead of practice. I do think peer-graded assignments work better than quiz in term of UX lessons...

By Christina B

Jan 29, 2018

Useful to get a sense of what UXD is, but not much else. It is VERY basic and also very short - you can easily complete it in a day.

By Emilio G

Oct 9, 2016

The videos did not seem very interactive. The teacher just read the slides. Good as an introduction, but not very hand-on course.

By Азнабаева К А

Aug 2, 2022

Неудобно оформлены вопросы в середине лекций, на других курсах не было таких огромных проблеов между вопросом и каждым ответом.

By sharfi s

Jul 5, 2021

The content is informative but the presentation is boaring. I would suggest adding more visuals and examples for the videos.

By Roy L

Apr 8, 2020

The class is super thorough in terms of the basics, however, the interactions could be improved from Week 3 onwards. :)

By Deleted A

Dec 21, 2020

Overall, it was an informative course. However, I found it to be very theoretical and sometimes too detailed-oriented.

By Natália P

May 31, 2017

As a product designer the concepts were not very new. But it was interesting to see how they apply to digital designs.