This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design and articulate meaning using color, type, and imagery is essential to making interfaces function clearly and seamlessly. Through a series of lectures and visual exercises, you will focus on the many individual elements and components that make up the skillset of an interface designer. By the end of this course, you will be able to describe the key formal elements of clear, consistent, and intuitive UI design, and apply your learned skills to the design of a static screen-based interface.
This course is part of the UI / UX Design Specialization
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- User Interface Design (UI Design)
- User Experience (UX)
- Graphic Design
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course and Specialization Overview
What IS a user interface anyway?
Formal Elements of Interface Design
Active Elements of Interface Design
Composing the Elements of Interface Design
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- 3 stars2.78%
- 2 stars0.62%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM VISUAL ELEMENTS OF USER INTERFACE DESIGN
It's an amazing course with all the fundamentals covered! i personally loved their peer grading system which lets us see works that our fellow peers do and also grade each other with reviews.
A truly comprehensive course that taught me a lot. This is going to be really handy for my future career.
Thank you for all the information and new materials that you have shared with us.
This course is very useful for a beginner who is looking for the basics of UI/UX course.
This course will give you the basic idea of interface design which very important for its advanced studies.
Great course, I have a degree in graphic design and have taken UX courses before. This was a good refresher on UI principles and I'm looking forward to the next course in this specialization.
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