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Visual Elements of User Interface Design

UI / UX Design,

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. This is the first course in the UI/UX Design Specialization, which brings a design-centric approach to user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective, rather than on one focused on marketing or programming alone. These courses are ideal for anyone with some experience in graphic or visual design and who would like to build their skill set in UI or UX for app and web design. It would also be ideal for anyone with experience in front- or back-end web development or human-computer interaction and want to sharpen their visual design and analysis skills for UI or UX.

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Rating 4.7 based on 298 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 3-4 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From California Institute of the Arts via Coursera
Instructor Michael Worthington
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Humanities
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Arts And Humanities Music And Art

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easy to follow

Simple, easy to follow and understand and something that can be very useful to even professionals.

I have implemented some of the methodologies here, and it has really sped up my creative process Key UI design principles taught in plain English that was easy to follow as absorb.

I thought the information was delivered in an interesting and easy to follow manner.

great Very fun assignments and easy to follow!

Incredibly easy to follow and instructive course.

Easy to follow, and really encouraging.

Easy to follow!

Please fix this for next batch Easy to follow, great material explained, interactive doesn't make you feel overwhelmed.

I enjoyed this course because it was easy to follow and simple to understand Really hands-on and easy to follow.

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ui/ux design

awesome The only thing I wish this course had more of was the practical side of UI/UX design.

It is a good start in the UI/UX design.

A well done course, with material that will you leave the course with knowledge of UI/UX design, in an easy to understand fashion.

This course was a great overview for explaining what UI/UX design is.

I also appreciate that the instructor provided links to supplimental material to further our research and prepare for building a stronger skillset to be UI/UX designers.

This is the great course of UI/UX design.

It's a wonderful course to give a beginner the basic concepts of UI/UX design.

This course is really helpful for those who are just starting to learn about UI/UX design.

It contains basicsand fundamental UI/UX Design skills.

This is a solid choice for anyone with a Graphic Design background or degree looking to transition into UI/UX design.

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for beginners

Nice CourseBut it needs to some one who have a last experience of Visual design with Adobe software to get more grades in the exercisesGood content with good connect with the author Very Good step for any one to go ahead in UI/UX design It dives right in to the essentials of UI I liked the course a lot, its a lot about knowing things that makes a lot of sense and learning how to start a new project with a methodology, the only things that I didn't like is that the precedent that the course give you to do your own homeworks it too basic, this means that most of the homeworks you will have to rview are reaaaally basic, a little bit of more motivation would be nice, to see some cool projects Very useful course, Highly recommended for beginners who is going to kick start with UI/UX design.

Great choice for beginners and for those who wants to brush up their skills.

Gives a good insight into UI design for beginners.

A well-structured course for beginners.

It is an excellent course for beginners and for those who do not.

Great tool kit for beginners!

Really great course for beginners and those who want to refresh their knowledge about UI design.

Wonderful course for beginners of mobile app design.

Good for beginners If the teacher could comment on the submissions, it would be perfect.

Excellent for beginners who want to understand the different aspects of UI\UX design I enjoy the lectures.

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user interface

The course provided a great step-by-step introduction to User Interface Design.

It is a good course to learn basic knowledge of user interface design.

I really think you end up being capable of designing a User Interface where everything has a reason to be and look the way it is.

Visual elements of the user interface design course helped me to become more comfortable with the idea of doing Ui/Ux design.

The course I took "Visual Elements of User Interface Design", Was interesting.

A great course to get an overall overview of the specific elements you need for a user interface.

I learned how useful and practical User Interface has become.It has multiple application to almost any product I like the course explains essentials.

Michael Worthington taught me basic to advanced about visual elements of user interface design,Exellent teaching love it !

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interface design

For me, as an Industrial Designer with some experience in graphic and interface design, was kind of easy but useful to learn some technical vocabulary.

The course project is also a great way to get a feel of the interface design process.

At first, I just wanted to explore interface design.

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visual elements

Since from the very beginning of the course you are free to choose the application idea from one of the given options, but then in the end of each week your submitted assignment has to meet some particular strict requirements (such as some fixed amounts of visual elements, buttons, etc.

add more visual elements that do not make much sense, but in order just to meet the required criteria set in the assignments).All in all, thanks for a great course!

It has given me clear vision and information on each functionality of the visual elements of UI design.

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so much

I learned a lot, thank you so much!

I learned so much about UI and it really helped me understand this field.

Great course, learned so much in the last few weeks.

I was pleased with the course because it added so much to my day-to-day work.

Thank you so much!

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Careers

An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.

User Interface Developer 1 $65k

User Interface Design Analyst $81k

User Interface Coordinator $81k

Graphic/User Interface Designer $84k

User Interface Development / AT & T $88k

User Interface Developer 2 $109k

User Interface/Visual Designer $117k

Senior User Experience / User Interface Designer $135k

Advanced User Interface Engineer $144k

User Interface Engineer 1 $163k

Vehicle User Interface Designer $168k

User Interface Architect 2 $192k

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Rating 4.7 based on 298 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 3-4 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From California Institute of the Arts via Coursera
Instructor Michael Worthington
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Humanities
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Arts And Humanities Music And Art

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