Evaluating User Interfaces

Evaluating User Interfaces

This course is part of User Interface Design Specialization

Instructors: Loren Terveen

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7 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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7 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

2 weeks to complete

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Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

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There are 7 modules in this course

In this course you will learn and practice several techniques for user interface evaluation. First we start with techniques that can be applied alone or in a design team, including action analysis, walkthroughs, and heuristic evaluation. Then we move on to user testing, including learning from a series of usability tests carried out in a real usability lab, and techniques to carry out your own tests even without a lab. Finally, we wrap up the discussion of evaluation--and of UI Design in the specialization as a whole--by looking at the question of how to set and measure usability goals, and in turn, when a design is usable enough to release it.

We situate evaluation in the larger UI design process and provide an introduction to the course's content.

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2 videos

We cover industry-standard techniques for evaluating interfaces without users, a lower-cost approach that precedes higher-cost "with user" strategies (Part 1 of 2).

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5 videos1 reading1 peer review

5 videosTotal 81 minutes

Evaluation without Users: Introduction12 minutes
Action Analysis: GOMS and Informal Action Analysis25 minutes
Case Example: Action Analysis14 minutes
Assignment Video: Action Analysis Assignment16 minutes
Cognitive Walkthroughs14 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Informal Action Analysis Assignment10 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 120 minutes

Informal Action Analysis120 minutes

We continue our overview of evaluation techniques that do not involve users (Part 2 of 2).

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7 videos1 assignment2 peer reviews

7 videosTotal 104 minutes

Assignment Video: Cognitive Walkthrough Assignment9 minutes
Introduction to Heuristic Evaluation18 minutes
Nielsen's Heuristics (Part 1)27 minutes
Nielsen's Heuristics (Part 2)20 minutes
Nielsen's Heuristics (Part 3)15 minutes
Assignment Video: Heuristic Evaluation7 minutes
Wrap-up Lecture: Evaluation without Users7 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 28 minutes

Evaluation without Users Quiz28 minutes

2 peer reviewsTotal 180 minutes

Cognitive Walkthrough60 minutes
Heuristic Evaluation Assignment120 minutes

We dive into the most important - and most costly - family of evaluation techniques: those that involve testing your user interface with real users (Part 1 of 3)

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7 videos

We continue our discussion of with-user evaluation techniques (Part 2 of 3)

What's included

4 videos1 peer review

We continue our discussion of with-user evaluation techniques (Part 2 of 3)

What's included

8 videos

8 videosTotal 71 minutes

Eye-Tracking: Introduction and First Demonstration9 minutes
Eye-Tracking: Second Demonstration3 minutes
Eye-Tracking: Review11 minutes
Eye-Tracking: Discussion and Conclusion9 minutes
Field Studies, Alpha Releases, and A/B Tests4 minutes
Controlled Field Experiments8 minutes
Industry Practice: Massive A/B Testing (Interview with Ronny Kohavi)23 minutes
Log Analysis in Evaluation4 minutes

We revisit our overview of UI evaluation.

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2 videos1 assignment

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Instructors

Loren Terveen

University of Minnesota

5 Courses112,423 learners

Haiyi Zhu

University of Minnesota

5 Courses112,423 learners

Lana Yarosh

University of Minnesota

5 Courses112,423 learners

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