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Learner Reviews & Feedback for User Experience: Research & Prototyping by University of California San Diego

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About the Course

What makes for a great user experience? How can you consistently design experiences that work well, are easy to use and people want to use? This course will teach you the core process of experience design and how to effectively evaluate your work with the people for whom you are designing. You'll learn fundamental methods of design research that will enable you to effectively understand people, the sequences of their actions, and the context in which they work. Through the assignments, you’ll learn practical techniques for making sense of what you see and transform your observations into meaningful actionable insights and unique opportunity areas for design. You’ll also explore how to generate ideas in response to the opportunities identified and learn methods for making your ideas tangible. By answering specific questions and refining your concepts, you’ll move closer to making your ideas real. We’ll use cases from a variety of industries including health, education, transportation, finance, and beyond to illustrate how these methods work across different domains. Good luck and we hope you enjoy the course!...

Top reviews

HH

Feb 26, 2016

Really good course.

Helped me understand the importance of interviews in making a product

Helped me come up with many ideas for a single problem

gave me a 260 degree view of user experience

SS

Jul 15, 2020

Great moments with the professor and really candid, inspiring coursework! I definitely learned what I needed on prototyping but there's extra breadcrumbs everywhere to go the extra mile.

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By stella f

May 31, 2020

Giving me insights of user researches and crazy way of generating ideas. Persona and journey maps are practical.

By Mikaela M

Mar 13, 2020

The best course from this specialization i’ve taken so far, actually teaches you useful techniques you can use

By ZHUO W

Aug 3, 2017

More assignment samples should be given...because it is really easy to sway from the right path for me ...

By Janna R

Jan 2, 2021

It tackled just the surface of research and prototyping, nonetheless, a good course to start

By Lauren N

Feb 6, 2016

There could have been more content and the course been more challenging, otherwise loved it!

By Morby L

Apr 22, 2018

Well paced and insightful, assignment instructions can be a little vague at times though.

By Evita D

Jan 4, 2018

Useful content and presentation, but I expected a bit more from prototyping.

By Rathnayaka M B A R

Dec 4, 2023

grate course , I got a good knowledge about research and prototyping.

By Manny O

Nov 29, 2016

The assignments for this course are more hands on than course 4

By Michael K (

Mar 18, 2017

very difficult! requires high levels of intrinsic motivation

By Santiago B

Feb 11, 2019

Helpful information, great examples and assignments.

By 鲜核桃

May 11, 2016

I really like this course assignments.

By Ruben E

Apr 30, 2017

Good course! Learned from others.

By Elaine T

Oct 3, 2018

A very nice introduction to UX

By LUCIA S B

Mar 7, 2016

The course is very good.

By priyatosh k

Jan 24, 2016

awesome tutorial

By Carlos A C R

Sep 5, 2021

Excelente Curso

By Vinod

Jun 29, 2017

good learning

By Silvio R

Nov 9, 2016

great course!

By Federico H

Oct 15, 2020

Good Course!

By Sanyuktha U

Jun 10, 2020

Great course

By Sam D

Feb 27, 2018

It was OK - like so many other courses in this specialisation it felt like a lot of common sense. I was able to complete the assignments with only minimal scans of the course material and pass all the quizzes without much of a challenge. I have worked in the industry for over a decade though... so may not be the typical student profile.

By Rebecca L

Mar 1, 2016

This was a kind of basic course without enough examples. That being said, the most interesting part of the course is prototyping section. I am looking forward to hearing more about that aspect of design.

By Valentina G

Mar 17, 2017

Great video, they should be longer and more detailed though.

Some of the information about these topics were treated in a more detailed and useful way in the introductory course

By Susanne G

Nov 17, 2016

In general it's really fun here but the assignments takes much more time than told and i wished

the focus would be more on layouting interfaces.