UX Design - From Concept to Prototype

Overview

Great design doesn’t come out of nowhere; it is born, nurtured, and grown--all through a systematic, learnable process. In this UX course, you will explore the process of taking a basic concept, grounded in user needs, and developing it into a design that will address those needs. 

In the UX Design - From Concept to Prototype offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Michigan, you will gain hands-on experience with techniques such as sketching, scenario development, storyboarding, and wireframing that will help you transform your understanding of what your users need into a compelling user experience. 

You will then learn how to turn wireframes and interaction architecture into interactive prototypes that can be tested with prospective users and iteratively refined into a high quality design that that is ready for a hand-off to the development team for implementation.

What You’ll Learn:

• Define and scope the design problem you will try to address

• Create user stories and storyboards to transform information about user needs into design concepts

• Produce sketches and conduct brainstorming sessions to generate many design ideas from which you can construct a high-quality design solution

• Develop interface wireframes to concretize the design and enable early user testing

• Conduct user tests with paper prototypes to get preliminary user feedback on the design concept and interactions

• Develop high-fidelity mockups that specify visual design elements

• Create Wizard of Oz prototypes to efficiently test complex interactions and interactive systems that are not screen-based (e.g., smart assistants)