Human-Centered Design - an Introduction

Overview

In this Human-Centered Design - an Introduction course offered by Coursera in partnership with UC San Diego, you will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You'll learn several techniques for rapidly prototyping (such as Wizard of Oz Prototyping) and evaluating multiple interface alternatives -- and why rapid prototyping and comparative evaluation are essential to excellent interaction design. 

You'll learn how to conduct fieldwork with people to help you get design ideas. How to make paper prototypes and low-fidelity mock-ups that are interactive -- and how to use these designs to get feedback from other stakeholders like your teammates, clients, and users. Armed with these design-thinking strategies, you’ll be able to do more creative human-centered design in any domain. 

Skills You Will Gain

• Rapid Prototyping

• Storyboarding

• Heuristic Evaluation

• Paper Prototyping