Human-Computer Interaction (Udemy.com)
The design, evaluation, implementation and phenomena of interactive computing systems for human use.
Created by: Ruth Stalker-Firth
Last updated June 2025
What you will learn
- Gain an understanding of the field of HCI, its history, its theory and its applications.
- Understand the guides and rules of HCI, as well as the laws and tools of UX.
- Identify the cognitive science principles and design theory which underline good visual design.
- To talk with confidence about the field of human-computer interaction.
Course Description
In this course you will learn about:
* The Human: We look at the human through the lense of cognitive science: Perception, memory and psychology so we can manage and guide user expectations when looking at an interface. We then learn how capture information about our users thorugh cultural probes, so that we create user personas, journeys and scenarios, so that we know all about users need and preferences from I/O to operating systems.
* The Computer: We consider different inputs and outputs from barcodes to touch screens with a focus on accuracy and learnability, so we can choose the right one, as we define what data we need, and what the system architecture should look like and how that reflects the mental processing of our user group.
* The Interaction: We learn all of the HCI guides and rules and UX laws and tools and apply them all to creating an effective visual design solution.
*The Evaluation: We explore different ways of measuring whether our design is a success.
By the end of the course, you will have all the skills you need to design a mobile app or website and to speak with confidence about the interaction between people and the increasingly complex computer systems our modern culture demands, thus becoming an agent for change, yourself.
Last Course Update 18/6/2025
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
246 Reviews
Ruth Stalker-Firth
Dr Ruth Stalker-Firth has been lecturing and consulting in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and AI since 2001. A seasoned UX consultant and speaker, her blog attracts over 1.2 million hits a year. Ruth is dedicated to demystifying tech, believing that great design and clear communication are the keys to making us all happier with our computers.
Read her HCI blogs and join her live, non-technical AI cohorts, by visiting her official website via the link on this profile page.
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Reviews
By Alexandria Holloway on 2/23/2026
Great visuals and explanations on each section. Very easy for a beginner to follow along and understand. highly recommend this course for some history and in depth explanations.
By Maximiliano Quinones Santander on 10/6/2025
la voz esta muy mal grabada y es cansador estar intentando entender lo que la narradora dice.
By P Munch on 7/31/2025
I'm probably not the central target demographic for this course, but it still proved useful. I'm a computer technician with degrees in English and Graphic Arts, who has done a fair amount of training and documentation as secondary job functions.
By Achintya Sai Pokkuluri on 4/28/2025
I learnt a lot in this course. A lot of it was stuff I knew from my previous design classes, however I did not expect how that knowledge would be complemented in each of the sections. The Character drawings were cute as well.
By Dawid W. on 10/10/2024
I’m currently working through this course, and I really love it! This course is constantly updated, which is a big plus. The author keeps adding new sections with more theory and examples that fit nicely into the overall structure. She clearly shares all the new info in the course announcements and on YT, along with extra comments and context. You can really tell Ruth is passionate about the topic, and it’s great to see her active on the internet (blog, YT). It makes the course feel even more alive and keeps me engaged. The content is great – it’s well structured, giving me enough direction and allowing me to dig deeper on my own if I want to. So far, it’s been a fantastic experience, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to learn :)
By Johannes Schneider on 8/26/2024
generally it's ok and a good overview. For me there is too much time spend on historical background while most more concrete topics treated superficially.
By Crystal Dsouza on 6/28/2024
This course was much longer than I anticipated and for good reason. It started off with basics and showed a history of HCI that I have no prior information of. I really enjoyed the concise structure and various examples used to explain many psychological concepts which were new to me as I am a software developer. I highly recommend this course!
By Scarlett Chatto on 7/22/2021
Such a lot packed into the course. Left me with a lot to think about it and handy references. I have found some courses rather light on content. No such problems here. Very friendly instructor, fun examples and a lot of useful information.
By Arnav Garg on 9/1/2020
I didn't have much of an idea as to where all this might be useful to me, but after having gone through the course, i understand that for any purpose wherein you have to design sth to be used by other beings, or use technology to interact with machines/do your stuff, its really imp to know how to approach the problem, which was explained in the course. As a quant researcher at a bank, i need to think how traders might use modeling techniques to be able to forecast/predict numerous values, and this might help to narrow the process :)
By Andrea Kelly on 8/23/2020
I don't work in the field of IT, but found the course easy and fun to do, I learnt a lot about how our personal data is used online (scary stuff) and was inspired to use the skills over learned and design an app which people found useful. ...looking forward to to tarot app too. Thanks Dr Ruth for your support throughout nothing was to much bother .
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Overall Score : 88 / 100






