Design Principles: an Introduction

You will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You'll learn how to generate design ideas, techniques for quickly prototyping them, and how to use prototypes to get feedback from other stakeholders like your teammates, clients, and users. You'll also learn principles of visual design, perception, and cognition that inform effective interaction design.

Created by: Scott Klemmer

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Overall Score : 88 / 100

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Course Description

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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Instructor Details

Scott Klemmer

Scott is a Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego, where he is a co-founder and Associate Director of the Design Lab. Before joining UCSD, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he co-directed the Human-Computer Interaction Group and held the Bredt Faculty Scholar development chair. Organizations around the world use his lab's open-source design tools and curricula; several books and popular press articles have covered his research and teaching. He helped introduce peer assessment to open online education, and taught the first peer-assessed online course. He has been awarded the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, and Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles; eight were awarded best paper or honorable mention at the premier HCI conferences ( CHI/ UIST/ CSCW). His former graduate students are leading profe ssors, resear chers, fo un de rs, social entrepreneurs, and engineers. He has a dual BA in Art-Semiotics and Computer Science from Brown University, Graphic Design work at RISD, and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He serves on the editorial board of TOCHI and HCI, co-chaired the UIST-2011 program, co-chaired the CHI-2010 systems area, and has served on advisory boards for academic programs, research labs, and startups passionate about interaction design.

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By Isabel L on 3-Feb-19

I really enjoyed this course. It was good at introducing a lot of new ideas and basic principles.

By Jared G on 22-Jan-19

Really helpful information on user testing in here and what to avoid.

By Non A on 28-Feb-19

The instructor is very good and the materials are intuitively interesting.

By Ilya G on 4-Mar-19

I finally understood how to evaluate hypothesises. Great!

By Albina D on 10-Dec-18

GREAT

By Giny C on 31-Mar-19

This course is a bit challenging for students without mathematical backround. Yet, the lecturer illustrates the idea of mathematics part in a simple way so that art students can also understand the course material. I enjoy this course very much :)

By LIU S G on 29-Mar-19

great hands-on assignments help understanding the topic

By Santiago B on 14-Jan-19

Great information and exercises

By Alfredo H on 20-Jul-18

Great course. Good feed back from other class peer reviews.

By Hemant A on 24-Oct-15

Good One... there are few rough edges but a good start

By Mario O J R on 21-Jan-16

Such a great and intersting course!

By Peer D on 15-Aug-16

I love it , 5 Stars, but - 1) Please ad the functionality to zoom into posted pictures!2) Please more further reading material or videos linkedThanks!