Design for Humanity: A New Perspective on User Experience (Udemy.com)

Design for inclusiveness by learning to challenge your vision, testing through stress cases, and analyzing real design

( 56 Reviews )

Created by: Eric A. Meyer

Produced in 2017

What you will learn

Understand the basic principles of user experience design
Challenge your own vision using new methodologies
Improve your ability to interview users
Stress test your work for potential flaws early

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Overall Score : 82 / 100

Course Description

Designing for humans is tough. We design for millions, but every interaction between our work and a user is personal, and we aren't taught to take care with those interactions. I created this course because I want everything we design to meet the real needs and wants of real people.
This course draws from my recent book with Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Design for Real Life and is best for learners who are new to design or looking to strengthen their emerging user experience design skillset. And since design is everywhere, a wide range of professionals will benefit from this course.
If you want a set of tools for stress-testing your work to make sure it's as human-centered, compassionate, and inclusive as possible, this is the course for you.

By the end of the course, you will have gone through practical exercises around how to challenge your vision and design a compassionate user research process; seen how to improve interviews and talk to real people about their user experiences with your product; explored new ways to think outside as well as inside the box; and practiced ways to avoid the tunnel vision we all too often develop about our own work.

Who this course is for:

This course is not only for designers; it is targeted at a wide range of professionals.
This course is designed for individuals who are new to design or looking to strengthen an emerging skillset.

Time: 4h

Instructor Details

Eric A. Meyer

4.1 Rating
56 Reviews

Eric A. Meyer is an internationally-recognized author, speaker, blogger, and sometime teacher and consultant. He is currently technical lead at Rebecca's Gift (rebeccasgift.org) and co-founder of An Event Apart (aneventapart.com) with Jeffrey Zeldman. In the course of his lengthy career, Eric has written numerous books and articles about CSS, HTML, and web standards. In his most recent book, Design for Real Life, Eric and his co-author Sara Wachter-Boettcher (sarawb.com) teach how to design with not just empathy, but compassion. He's been working on the Web since 1993 and still finds it deeply compelling.

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By Anniken Hogstad

I've read the book, so so far it's mainly repeating.

By Lorene Chauvel

no he aprendido nada valioso todavía

By Kirsten Hawkins

Only just started the course, so not sure how useful it is yet, but am enjoying it so far.

By Kishore As

Great

By Linsey Danielson

He illuminated his points by providing personal stories about his daughter. I appreciated that. It's a bit early in the class to ask this question as most of the content has been about setting context. Having a background in this area, this content is already familiar to me. Looking forward to learning.

By Dawid Zastrożny

Honest, straightforward and to the point. I truly can't wait to hear the rest of the course. So far so good :)

By Linda Lund

Great reminders of often overlooked user interface experiences.

By Smart Designer

Why did I leave this rating? Because I was interrupted during the session to make a review—based on what I had seen so far. Lucky for all, that I sincerely find the content to be good.

By Jason Ogle

As we continue to nose-dive into a world run by and through machines, there’s never been a more important time to keep humans in mind when designing digital products and experiences.

In this course, the instructor (Eric Meyer) addresses largely unfamiliar, yet all-important design topics such as edge cases, designated dissenters, premortems, stress-testing and much more.

After taking this course, you as a designer will be inspired to be as preemptive as possible in preventing the possible worst-case scenario impacts your designs can have on the humans using them. The lessons are succinctly and eloquently delivered with real-world exercises at the end of each.

Throughout this course, Eric shows us how to be better, more compassionate designers. He gives us an inside look into learning from experiences he himself has gone through–including how bad design decisions and assumptions put salt on the wound of the incredibly painful experience of losing a child.

If ever designers needed to be licensed to design, this course could very well be the county clerk.

I highly recommend this course for any human in the design field desiring to get better at their craft, grow their empathy, protect their business...and truly fight for their users!

By Maricel Veronica Moraga Zobarzo

Muy buen curso, entrega muchos tips para empatizar con el cliente, diseñar y testear las soluciones que personalmente no había visto en otros lados. La parte final de cómo hacer el caso de negocios es un adicional muy valioso.

Quizá podría ajustar el nombre para reflejar más correctamente de qué se trata el curso.

Like the course, very usefull tips to use during client´s insight, design and testing solutions. Also advice to build the business case and sell the idea to stakeholders

By Malick Njie

Hands down! This course opens up your mind and see a new perspective about ux Design. I can’t complain everything is well said and explained thoroughly. This is my 2nd watching it and it keeps letting me see and visualize new ideas and concepts!

I would like to see more courses from you on ux Design. Best teacher!

By Ed Staub

Has lots of guidance on ensuring that UX research and analysis is wide enough, along with many more tips about ensuring that product and process serves customers and stakeholders well.