User Research and Design
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User Research and Design
This course is part of User Interface Design Specialization
Instructors: Loren Terveen
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Skills you'll gain
- User Interface (UI) Design
- Ideation
- People Analytics
- User Experience
- UI/UX Research
- User Experience Design
- Qualitative Research
- User Centered Design
- User Story
- Data Analysis
- Persona Development
- User Research
- Surveys
- Persona (User Experience)
- UI/UX Strategy
- User Interface (UI)
- User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design
- Design Research
- Interviewing Skills
- Data Collection
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There are 5 modules in this course
In this course you will learn and practice techniques of user research and early UI design exploration. First, you will learn and practice several techniques for user research, including in-person research and survey and log-analysis techniques. Then, you will learn to analyze and deliver user research in forms that support UI design, including personas, use cases, tasks, and scenarios. Finally, you will learn and practice ideation techniques that start from user research and broadly generate potential design ideas.
Note that weeks 1 and 2 form a cohesive whole, with more lecture content in week 1, and more practice (assignment and quizzing) in week 2.
What's included
2 videos
2 videos•Total 14 minutes
- From User Research to Design•11 minutes
- An Introduction to the Course•3 minutes
What's included
6 videos
6 videos•Total 82 minutes
- Introduction to User Research•3 minutes
- Interview and Focus Groups•24 minutes
- Observations•15 minutes
- Contextual Inquiry•11 minutes
- Ethics and Consent•16 minutes
- Design a User Research Protocol•12 minutes
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments1 peer review
3 videos•Total 16 minutes
- Log Analysis•5 minutes
- Surveys and Questionnaires•5 minutes
- Assignment Video: Observing Users•7 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Observation Assigment Overview•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 50 minutes
- User Research Methods Quiz•20 minutes
- Observation Review Practice•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
- Formative Observations of 2 Users•120 minutes
The 3rd and 4th week of the course are intended to be a unit, with more lecture content in week 3, and more practice (assignment and quizzing) in week 4.
What's included
8 videos
8 videos•Total 105 minutes
- Introduction: Translating User Research to Support Design•4 minutes
- Qualitative Analysis•16 minutes
- Quantitative Analysis•8 minutes
- Personas I: What They Are; How They're Used•15 minutes
- Personas II: Walking Through Examples•26 minutes
- Use Cases•9 minutes
- Tasks and Walkthrough Scenarios•15 minutes
- Implications for Design•12 minutes
What's included
5 videos1 assignment1 peer review
5 videos•Total 38 minutes
- From Research to Ideas: Module Introduction•2 minutes
- Ideation•10 minutes
- Idea Selection•11 minutes
- Communicating Ideas to Stakeholders•7 minutes
- Assignment Video: Ideation and Selection•8 minutes
1 assignment•Total 24 minutes
- Delivering User Research, Ideation, and Idea Selection•24 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
- Idea Generation & Selection Peer Review•120 minutes
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Reviewed on Oct 8, 2018
Great course! Looking forward to more of this kind of courses online!
Reviewed on May 7, 2017
I like the assignments in this course, they were helpful in putting the concepts into context
Reviewed on Jul 22, 2017
I learnt a lot from this course especially from the 100 ideas exercise. Thanks you
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