You will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You'll learn how to generate design ideas, techniques for quickly prototyping them, and how to use prototypes to get feedback from other stakeholders like your teammates, clients, and users. You'll also learn principles of visual design, perception, and cognition that inform effective interaction design.
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Interaction Design Specialization
Learn how to design great user experiences. Design that delights users
Instructors: Scott Klemmer
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Specialization - 8 course series
Human-Centered Design: an Introduction
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Design Principles: an Introduction
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Social Computing
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Input and Interaction
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User Experience: Research & Prototyping
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Information Design
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Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments
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Interaction Design Capstone Project
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For the Input and Experiments courses, you’ll need to remember a few things from Algebra II, like how to use logarithms and what a mean and median are. No coding from scratch is required, but you will need to copy & paste analyses using the R language. You can use a computer to calculate, but you’ll need to know what to tell it.
Yes! In addition to the knowledge being valuable, students who enroll in the UCSD CSE Masters program can receive credit for up to two classes by completing this specialization and taking a portfolio review examination.