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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

PV

Nov 21, 2019

The course was simple and crisp yet covered it all - interaction, visual and usability. Liked the duration of the videos followed by reading material that covered the highlights of the topic.

NS

Mar 16, 2016

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

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By Francisca M

Mar 27, 2024

Sería bueno tener un profesor que revise tareas

By Dave G

Jan 26, 2016

Another very good class in this specialization.

By Cibele B d C

Sep 10, 2015

Really good introduction to interactive design

By Viebone

Apr 26, 2016

good tips for testing experiments

By Irfan R N

Aug 23, 2023

outstanding steps for beginners

By Shriman G

Jul 30, 2020

Very interesting course

By Emily s

Jul 31, 2016

Interesting materials.

By Miguel C

Aug 19, 2015

I like it!

By Gioconda B

Oct 16, 2017

I like the content of the course. I feel I have learned a lot, especially working with the Chi Squared test. However, there was an example that was not clear on week 3 – Comparing rates. The example refers to comparing two buttons in a home page in order to improve traffic. The data provided was confusing because the Instructor refers that 118 people sign up the “learn more” button over a week. He calculates the chi squared value with 118 sign-ups for the “learn more” button. Then he said that 119 people sign up over a week for the same button, and he calculates the chi square value with this data. My suggestion is to review that video. Thank you.

By Panagiotis P

Feb 15, 2016

Definitely improved from the first course of this specification. Better feedback on errors regarding quizzes' questions and still really interesting assignments for peer review that help you to learn. Still missing a document or a file with all the notes that one can take away and use as a reference guide, hence only 3/5.

By Ronald F

May 11, 2020

Important information presented in this course. My only feedback is that a little more background or a bit more explanation on the concepts of chi square, p-value and meaning of these should have been presented. These subjects felt rushed and not well presented.

By Jon M

Aug 11, 2017

The visual design teachings could have a few more exercises that teach color choice and more details about typography styles. For example, emotions can be communicated with colors ...

By Jennifer B

Jun 19, 2018

It started off very interesting. Then it kind of fell apart during the chi-sqaure part. Some of the examples feel a bit dated and could use a bit more modern design.

By Adriana C

Feb 29, 2016

I didn't like the way contents were organized. It was too much information in a very short time.

By Adam C

Nov 1, 2021

Took way too long to move forward because I had to wait for weeks to score other's tests.

By Jerod G

Jul 22, 2016

Several errors in lecture and lack-luster assignments decreased my perception of value.

By Juliana M M S

Mar 4, 2016

If you don't pay the fee to get the certification, you can't do the assignments :(

By Joseph P

Dec 10, 2016

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

By Tyler C

Jan 7, 2018

don't feel like I'm learning from the videos.

By Jeppe C

Apr 10, 2016

Slow review process (can be).

By Dzigner T

Mar 27, 2018

OK

By Gaurav M

Dec 6, 2015

Should go into more depth - esp with Visual Design.

By Melinda M

Oct 23, 2015

This course wasn't good. Many of the assignment instructions and questions were poorly written, and students clearly had trouble understanding what was asked of them. The assignments also weren't very deep or imaginative, and some of them requested very specific answers relying in keywords from the lectures rather than ensuring that the students had really understood the concepts. The design principles were introduced at such a surface level as to be just silly rather than useful. This was kind of a waste of my time.

By Braxtopia P

Jul 28, 2022

I found the coursework to be a little bland in comparison to the other courses on the site. More lectures than actual hands on coursework, which is a deal breaker for me, I think the class is outdated and the links and groups suggested to you whenyou join the class arent even active anymore which can make things challenging if you ever need to reach out for help or to get an assignment graded

By Deleted A

Jul 10, 2019

Don't be a fool and expend any money in this courses. If you are lucky, someone will review your assignments, but chances are you are not going to receive enough reviews to pass the course, just like me. I have payed for two months subscription and have received nothing at all, as my course is not complete, although I have submitted all of my assignments.