About this course: Apply the skills you learned during the sequence of courses -- from needfinding to visual design -- as you redesign a new interface, service, or product for your Interaction Design Capstone Project. We’re working with some exciting design teams in Silicon Valley across multiple industries to develop real-world design challenges for this final project. Upon completion, you will have a polished capstone project you can share in your design portfolio to highlight your work and document your design process.
Created by: University of California, San Diego
Taught by: Scott Klemmer, Professor
Cognitive Science & Computer Science
| Basic Info | Course 8 of 8 in the Interaction Design Specialization |
| Commitment | 10 weeks of study, 4-5 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Design Thinking Capstone
Welcome to the Interaction Design Capstone Project!
3 videos, 1 reading
- Video: Welcome by Scott & Mike, from Instagram HQ
- Video: Scott Klemmer & Mike Krieger in conversation at Instagram HQ
- Video: Your Mission
- Lecture: Design Briefs
WEEK 2
Needfinding
As Yogi Berra said, you can observe a lot just by watching. Watching how people do things is a great way to learn their goals and values, and come up with design insight. We call this needfinding. This module trains your eyes and ears to come up with user needs, breakdowns, clever hacks, and opportunities for improvement.
2 videos, 1 reading
- Video: Participant Observation
- Lecture: Why Instagram Worked
- Video: IDEO Shopping Cart Redesign
- Demande de discussion: Where did you observe?
Graded: Needfinding
WEEK 3
Ideation
To maximize your chances of having a great idea, it helps to generate a lot of ideas. Brainstorming is a strategy for rapidly generating lots of ideas. It was named by advertising executive Alex Osborn in his 1953 book, Applied Imagination. When brainstorming, go for volume and defer judgment. Often, something that seems like a crazy idea can lead to something that’s a really good idea. Immerse yourself: it can help to use a whiteboard, butcher paper, or stick post-its on a wall. These ideas will become the 'soil' for growing your designs.
1 video
- Video: Storyboards, Paper Prototypes, and Mockups
- Demande de discussion: Where did you look for inspiration?
Graded: Ideation
WEEK 4
Prototype
Prototyping is the pivotal activity that structures innovation, collaboration, and creativity in design. Prototyping gets ideas out of your head and into the world. Like a conversation, your ideas will evolve as you articulate them and make them concrete. Prototypes are quick and dirty, not careful museum pieces. The key to prototyping is to jump right in. It’s a tool to see what’s working, what challenges emerge, and to share your ideas with others. Review the user needs you brainstormed. In this assignment, you will flesh out your design ideas by storyboarding and making paper prototypes.
1 video, 1 reading
- Video: Interview with IDEO's Nastasha Tan
- Lecture: Prototypes & Storyboards Examples
- Demande de discussion: Favorite prototyping trick?
Graded: Prototype
WEEK 5
Design Heuristics
Design can succeed (or fail) in many ways. That said, there are common heuristics that will get you on the right path. In this module, you will conduct heuristic evaluations (HEs) of another learner's paper prototype. The heuristic evaluations will be a way to highlight usability issues, and think about how to improve them.
3 videos
- Video: When, Why & How to Evaluate Designs with Heuristics
- Video: Example: Recording an Evaluation Session for Later Review
- Video: Watch Two Students Do Heuristic Evaluation
- Demande de discussion: Nominate a heuristic
Graded: Heuristic Evaluation
WEEK 6
A Plan & a Skeleton
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Figuring out what that first step is--and then what the one after that is--can be especially daunting with creative projects. Making forward progress is a lot easier if you write down concrete, actionable goals. This is the main benefit of a development plan. A development plan also helps you track momentum. Are things progressing at the pace you expected? Faster? Slower? Writing a time estimate into your plan and tracking how long it actually took helps you gauge your pace. The first steps of your plan should be the skeleton that forms the core screens of your design.
2 items
- Demande de discussion: How well can you estimate?
Graded: A plan & a skeleton
WEEK 7
Ready for Testing
Crunch time! Your interactive prototypes have to be ready for user testing by the end of this assignment.
2 items
- Demande de discussion: What do you want to know?
Graded: Ready for Testing
WEEK 8
Test your prototype
In this assignment, you will test your prototype in person with two people to find usability bugs & potential improvements.
WEEK 9
Results!
You've got data from online users that compares two alternatives. How can you tell whether there is a real difference? Statistical tests, like the CHI-squared test, tell you whether the behavior you observed was likely to have occurred by chance, or whether there's likely to be a real difference between the designs. A/B experiments like these are becoming increasingly popular in industry because experiments help you test your assumptions.
2 videos, 1 reading
- Video: Designing Studies You Can Learn From
- Lecture: Results Assignment Details
- Demande de discussion: What surprised you?
- Video: Applying Chi-squared to A/B Tests
- Examen par les pairs: A/B Testing with Google Analytics
Graded: Results!
WEEK 10
Show & Tell
You've done all this great work, and your hard effort has paid off. You've brainstormed, prototyped, designed, iterated, refined, and evaluated. Now's your chance to share your work with the world. This is a great opportunity to tell your design story, and use it as a portfolio to impress your friends, family, and potential employers.
2 items
- Demande de discussion: Showcase your work!
Graded: Show & Tell
FAQs
How It Works
Travail en cours
Chaque cours fonctionne comme un manuel interactif en proposant des vidéos préenregistrées, des quiz et des projets.
Aide de la part de vos pairs
Connectez-vous à des milliers d'autres étudiants et débattez sur des idées, discutez le contenu du cours et obtenez de l'aide pour en maîtriser les concepts.
Certificats
Obtenez une reconnaissance officielle pour votre travail et partagez votre réussite avec vos amis, vos collègues et vos employeurs.
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Ratings and Reviews
Great way to put all that is learned into practice and to learn from all the great work that peers create!
Lots of hardwork required but very enjoyable and worth it. Some assignment instructions may need to be revisited though as they could get confusing (e.g. saying to put deliverables in different pdf but the actual submission page only accepts one).
A great course to be able to step through a real life project in a safe environment with lots of feedback.
The fact that you end up with a full process, prototype and write up of the project means you have to put very little extra effort to build up your portfolio.
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Awesome experience. What I loved the most was getting classmates from all around the world and getting enriched with their wide insights and points of view.