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User Experience Research and Design SpecializationUniversity of Michigan

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Great design doesn’t come out of nowhere; it is born, nurtured, and grown--all through a systematic, learnable process. In this UX course, you will explore the process of taking a basic concept, grounded in user needs, and developing it into a design that will address those needs. In the course, you will gain hands-on experience with techniques such as sketching, scenario development, storyboarding, and wireframing that will help you transform your understanding of what your users need into a compelling user experience. You will then learn how to turn wireframes and interaction architecture into interactive prototypes that can be tested with prospective users and iteratively refined into a high quality design that that is ready for a hand-off to the development team for implementation.
What You’ll Learn:
    Define and scope the design problem you will try to address
    Create user stories and storyboards to transform information about user needs into design concepts
    Produce sketches and conduct brainstorming sessions to generate many design ideas from which you can construct a high-quality design solution
    Develop interface wireframes to concretize the design and enable early user testing
    Conduct user tests with paper prototypes to get preliminary user feedback on the design concept and interactions
    Develop high-fidelity mockups that specify visual design elements
    Create Wizard of Oz prototypes to efficiently test complex interactions and interactive systems that are not screen-based (e.g., smart assistants)

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Approx. 15 hours to complete

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Introduction to the Design Process

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 30 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Ideation

This module will cover one of the practical topics in this course --- ideation. You will brainstorm and sketch possible solutions to your design problem in this module’s assignment. You will also share your sketches with your fellow learners, hear their thoughts about your designs, and provide feedback on their work. By the end of this module, you will gain an understanding of various methods of ideation, as well as the structure developed by Haakon Faste and Eric Paulos for brainstorming.

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 23 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Design Constraints and Making Choices

This module will introduce the other practical topics --- creation of early design representations like scenarios, personas, and storyboards that illuminate findings about user needs discovered through your formative research. By the end of this module, you will learn how designers move from formative research to a design solution, how the “Questions, Options, Criteria” framework can help us make design decisions, and gain hands-on experience in creating personas, scenarios, and storyboards.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 49 min), 1 reading, 3 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Building Blocks of User Interaction

In this module, we will start with understanding the conceptual underpinnings of user interactions by introducing the basic building blocks of user interaction. In addition to lectures, quizzes and discussions, this module involves actual design work: planning out the kinds of information the system you are designing will need to take in, and the kinds of feedback it will need to provide to users. By the end of this module, you will be able to define the elements of user interaction and types of data input. You will also be able to design effective inputs and outputs to enable users to complete tasks successfully as well as conceptualize design problems by using the building blocks of user interaction.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 42 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM UX DESIGN: FROM CONCEPT TO PROTOTYPE

by MPAug 9, 2020

Good introduction to prototyping. I recommend changing the paper prototype to a software-based version.

by ASFeb 26, 2019

It's a lot of work, but gives you guides on hw to proceed through the design process.

by SISep 23, 2020

It is very useful course for User Experience. I gathered knowledge about design process, low fidelity, high fidelity, persona, scenario, storyboard and so on.

by SADec 17, 2019

The course is great, thank you! Perfect amount of both theory and practice, it was really interesting and challenging, the best course for new people in UX design.

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About the User Experience Research and Design Specialization

Integrate UX Research and UX Design to create great products through understanding user needs, rapidly generating prototypes, and evaluating design concepts. Learners will gain hands-on experience with taking a product from initial concept, through user research, ideation and refinement, formal analysis, prototyping, and user testing, applying perspectives and methods to ensure a great user experience at every step.

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