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University of California San Diego

Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments

You may never be sure whether you have an effective user experience until you have tested it with users. In this course, you’ll learn how to design user-centered experiments, how to run such experiments, and how to analyze data from these experiments in order to evaluate and validate user experiences. You will work through real-world examples of experiments from the fields of UX, IxD, and HCI, understanding issues in experiment design and analysis. You will analyze multiple data sets using recipes given to you in the R statistical programming language -- no prior programming experience is assumed or required, but you will be required to read, understand, and modify code snippets provided to you. By the end of the course, you will be able to knowledgeably design, run, and analyze your own experiments that give statistical weight to your designs.

Status: Experimentation
Status: Statistical Analysis
IntermediateCourse15 hours

Featured reviews

AH

4.0Reviewed Jan 11, 2019

This had been the hardest class ever. I don't even know how I passed but also I don't see how I can remember to use Rcode for future work within HCI

RI

4.0Reviewed Mar 13, 2016

Thank you for designing a course that demonstrates that UX is not just painting!

RR

4.0Reviewed Feb 26, 2019

Without any background in R programming and experiment design, I am able to learn a lot of useful stuff in this course. I wish the last three lessons and quizzes are a little more beginner friendly.

DS

5.0Reviewed Jun 3, 2017

This was really useful. The course was well structured and provided excellent real-life examples that are easily transferrable to other scenarios. Keep it up!

AL

4.0Reviewed Jun 16, 2016

The instructor for this course was great. He was very responsive to students' questions concerns.

KO

4.0Reviewed Oct 16, 2016

Designing experiments wasn't what I thought, and had a very steep learning curve.

PK

5.0Reviewed Nov 17, 2020

One of the best courses I have taken in relation to UX. Very good design, engaging lectures and examples, and well designed exams. I learned alot and enjoyed listening to Dr. Webbrock. Kudos to him.

NR

5.0Reviewed Jul 31, 2018

Should cover how to select sample for experiments and perform experimental design test

WA

5.0Reviewed Mar 13, 2021

Very good course! A comprehensive overview on how to conduct experiments and various analyses. Very helpful for my PhD research!

TG

5.0Reviewed Apr 8, 2020

THE best course in the interaction design specialization. Not even kidding. Try for yourself.

BS

5.0Reviewed Jun 21, 2020

The only course worth doing in this course series. Very clear to the point and helps to learn a bit of statistics that you can use.

ZW

5.0Reviewed Jul 25, 2017

Have to watch three times to keep up because it is really hard for people without former experiences... Anyway it is worth it