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About the Course

Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts is the fourth course in a certificate program that will equip you with the skills you need to apply to entry-level jobs in user experience (UX) design. In this course, you will learn how to plan and conduct a usability study to gather feedback about designs. Then, you will modify your low-fidelity designs based on insights from your research. Current UX designers and researchers at Google will serve as your instructors, and you will complete hands-on activities that simulate real-world UX design scenarios. Learners who complete the seven courses in this certificate program should be equipped to apply for entry-level jobs as UX designers. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Plan a UX research study, including the project background, research goals, research questions, Key Performance Indicators, methodology, participants, and script. - Explain the importance of respecting privacy and user data. - Conduct a moderated and unmoderated usability study. - Take notes during a usability study. - Create affinity diagrams to group and analyze data. - Synthesize observations from research and come up with insights. - Develop persuasive presentation skills to share research insights. - Modify low-fidelity designs based on research insights. - Continue to design a mobile app to include in your professional portfolio. To be successful in this course, you should complete the previous three courses in the certificate program. Or, you need to have an ability to conduct user research to inform the creation of empathy maps, personas, user stories, user journey maps, problem statements, and value propositions; as well as an ability to create wireframes and low-fidelity prototypes on paper and in Figma....

Top reviews

JH

Nov 2, 2022

One of the most useful courses for me. I have gathered soo much knowledge from this course. The work and assignments might seem a bit cumbersome, but trust me when you do those you will learn a lot.

MA

Jul 23, 2023

Amazing course!.... It has provided me the knowledge and skills I need to succeed in my chosen field. I'm confident that this course will help me reach my goals. Thanks for making this available!

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Dec 3, 2022

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Nov 15, 2022

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By Michael M

Dec 21, 2022

Overall this is a great course much like the others included in this specialization, but there were a few inconsistent and unclear instructions for assignments that needed to be submitted. I noticed a few that gave instructions to copy a share link from a Google Doc/Sheet, but then the submission page said to upload a PDF and only had an upload option with no place to paste a link. The last assignment also seemed to confuse a lot of people, as I think it was requesting an updated research presentation, but quite a few people seemed to submit the presentation that was put together earlier in Week 4 of the course. I was also confused about this at first, so it may be worth updating the description of the assignment to make it more clear. For example, the last assignment I think is the only one where there is not a specific template despite needing to add new/different material and no exemplar to help understand what the final product should look like. Otherwise the instruction and content is all great!

By Melanie F

May 11, 2023

The only thing that is difficult about online courses is the lack of true input about your work from a professional. The last project, revising your usability study, was hard for me in the fact I did not have a clear visual of how you wanted me to put the comments in and where to put them in. I probably did a little over thinking as I do but I am a visual person.

I can write anything, but I need a visual example of how that should be. This course is so good about giving written and picture visuals, but it dropped the ball on this one final presentation. Lucky for me I have a friend that is in the field. After I was done and I turned it in, I sent it to him for feed back. I haven't heard from him yet, he is a busy guy, but I know I will and that will help me. I would suggest in the future a visual of how you want the adjustments displayed would be a great additions!!

By nikita b

Feb 1, 2022

I didn't think research could be exciting at first, but it turned out to be. I enjoyed making modifications to the prototype based on the research findings. It was fascinating to learn that what we think will work may not always do so, as users have the final say, and how minor changes can have a significant impact on the app's functionality. The only issue I had was with the final research presentation project; I think the instructions might have been more straightforward and clear because I was confused at times, but overall it was a wonderful experience.

By Juan G

Nov 7, 2022

I love how much I learned and how much I have improved. It was not easy. I work a fulltime job. 10 hour shifts and on my free time I do some Coursera. The only difficulty is the projects. I have notice it can be difficult to understand what the assignment are asking. It takes me a few more minutes to understand. But when I review others assignments , I see they have missed some information and I inform them. Therefore, I think Google can do a little better an explanting these final weekly projects a little better. Thankyou so much team Google :)

By Cassian A

Nov 7, 2023

This was a great course overall. I'm knocking a star though as it feels like a real drop in excitement right after course 3 - as this course dives into UX research as opposed to practical designing, some of the instructions for assignments could be made clearer, and in general it felt a bit boring. The great part is that you get to proceed through a full research process (which is quite a trip), if you choose to put the effort in that is, and see how your design is interacted with and evolve as a result. Onward!

By Tara C

May 21, 2023

The course itself was pretty good. I really liked the instructors.

However, the final graded assignment was not well-designed. The instructions were difficult to follow and the rubric criteria felt arbitrary. Also, this last assignment was difficult to do if you were not completing the other courses in the series (e.g., I needed to update the design, despite not having created it). This course activity is definitely catering toward UXDs understanding research, rather than training UXRs.

By Matthew A

Sep 12, 2022

The final assignment is not super clear in its instruction. Every other assignment has provided users with a template which they could fill out, whereas the final assignment required people to manipulate an older template, that didn't quite reach the goals of the rubric. While I believe that people should be able to figure this out on their own, when it comes to peer-reviewed assignments I believe doing so leaves room for error or confusion on behalf of the grader.

By Wilfred K

Sep 9, 2023

It was a good course but the final deliverable for week 4 made no sense. During the week we were given an unmarked task to create a presentation then the marked task at the end of the week was to UPDATE the presentation and show that the presentation was updated.

This makes no sense. Surely it is better to just make the hand in a completely new presentation rather than create a presentation only to update and change it later on.

By Ermis T - K

Jan 25, 2024

I liked the layout of the info and the division of the research part, very thorough steps on how to conduct and plan a research study, how to synthesize results and how to present them. I am not sure if the presentation part needed to be so thorough, I am pretty sure I could find that info somewhere else. Also it would be great if there have been stronger connections with the research part of the previous courses.

By Y T

May 16, 2022

This course is a usability test based research class. So it covers methdolodies about how to plan, test and optimize your design(you shall already have some low fi UI) using success metrics. However, it does not include pre design research, such as how to understand your user group, what user journeys users currently take to complete the tasks and coresponding pain points in different stage of their process.

By Sudhir D J

Aug 23, 2022

The course was not easy to complete. It could have been made more simpler, with better animated videos. Instructors standing in front of camera and reading content makes it boring. For me personally, this was the most difficult course not because of the content but how it is created.

I would suggest to do a proper 'Usability Study' for this particular course, and make it more interesting.

By Eii D

Aug 10, 2023

the last assignment was somehow unclear. We didn’t know where to add the “new app design” on the template. Also the phone template was not see-through and we had to delete it and replace our own designs.

The course was really nice and informative but the final assignment’s template and instructions were not so clear (and it was really boring to read the whole page of instructions)