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Design Principles

Interaction Design,

What makes an interface intuitive? How can I tell whether one design works better than another? This course will teach you fundamental principles of design and how to effectively evaluate your work with users. You'll learn fundamental principles of visual design so that you can effectively organize and present information with your interfaces. You'll learn principles of perception and cognition that inform effective interaction design. And you'll learn how to perform and analyze controlled experiments online. In many cases, we'll use Web design as the anchoring domain. A lot of the examples will come from the Web, and we'll talk just a bit about Web technologies in particular. When we do so, it will be to support the main goal of this course, which is helping you build human-centered design skills, so that you have the principles and methods to create excellent interfaces with any technology.

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Rating 4.4 based on 153 ratings
Length 4 weeks
Effort 4 weeks, 3-4 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $39
From University of California San Diego via Coursera
Instructor Scott Klemmer
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Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design
Tags Computer Science Design And Product

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learn a lot

This is a well-designed course with assignments from which one can learn a lot.

The peer-review projects are very hands-on, and you learn a lot by doing that.

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enjoyed this course

I enjoyed this course as the exercises allowed me to put into practice what I've learned.

I enjoyed this course a lot.

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throughout the course

The assignments take a decent amount of time and I'd recommend taking notes throughout the course in order to efficiently complete the last assignment (Q&A) and final quiz.

Awesome learning throughout the course.

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very interesting

Very interesting, but I found it a little bit confusing.

This class was insanely insightful, and I found many of the topics covered very interesting and fascinating — towards the end of the course, specifically around designing experiments, I found that whole terrain to be pretty difficult to comprehend.

Very interesting.

A mix of graphic design and probabilities, this is very interesting and useful!

It started off very interesting.

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a/b testing

I liked particularly the course about running web experiments with A/B testing and learning a lot about comparing data with chi-square testing.

The introduction to A/B testing was great and provides a good base layer of knowledge for the experimenting and analysis section of the IxD program.

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about typography

The visual design teachings could have a few more exercises that teach color choice and more details about typography styles.

In particular I enjoyed week 2 where topics about typography, spacing, layout of contents etc., were addressed.

basic principles

The basic principles of design and their philosophies were covered well in this course, and it was taught in a quick, efficient manner.

It's great to help you get insights about basic principles of design.

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not clear

The course overall was good but the assignment instructions were not clear enough don't feel like I'm learning from the videos.

However, there was an example that was not clear on week 3 – Comparing rates.

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very helpful

Also, for Assignment 3, it would have been very helpful to have the answer key, since there is some confusion around some of the answers.

This is very helpful.

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Rating 4.4 based on 153 ratings
Length 4 weeks
Effort 4 weeks, 3-4 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $39
From University of California San Diego via Coursera
Instructor Scott Klemmer
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design
Tags Computer Science Design And Product

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