What makes an interface intuitive? How can I tell whether one design works better than another? This course will teach you fundamental principles of design and how to effectively evaluate your work with users. You'll learn fundamental principles of visual design so that you can effectively organize and present information with your interfaces. You'll learn principles of perception and cognition that inform effective interaction design. And you'll learn how to perform and analyze controlled experiments online. In many cases, we'll use Web design as the anchoring domain. A lot of the examples will come from the Web, and we'll talk just a bit about Web technologies in particular. When we do so, it will be to support the main goal of this course, which is helping you build human-centered design skills, so that you have the principles and methods to create excellent interfaces with any technology.
This course is part of the Interaction Design Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome and Course Overview
Direct Manipulation and Representations
Visual Design and Information Design
Designing Experiments
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TOP REVIEWS FROM DESIGN PRINCIPLES: AN INTRODUCTION
Good course. The leactures could be better structured, but with some complementary reading and insistence, you bust right through.
Very informative and fun. Good mix of practical examples and theory, made me wish every university course I've taken was like this
The course was simple and crisp yet covered it all - interaction, visual and usability. Liked the duration of the videos followed by reading material that covered the highlights of the topic.
The course was quite useful. Brief introduction to the basic understanding of fundamental principles of understanding what user wants and how to collect an honest feedback from him/her.
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