In this course, you will gain an understanding of the critical importance of user interface design. You will also learn industry-standard methods for how to approach the design of a user interface and key theories and frameworks that underlie the design of most interfaces you use today.
Through a series of case studies on commercial systems - many of which you likely use on a regular basis - we will illustrate the benefits of good design. We will also demonstrate how the costs of bad design can often be severe (in user experience, money, and even human lives). You will then gain a high-level understanding of the user-interface design process. You will be introduced to common design scenarios - e.g. improving on existing designs and starting a new design from scratch - and the general design processes that tend to be used for each scenario. Finally, we will begin introducing the large body of existing knowledge on design by providing overviews of core user interface design theories and concepts. This key foundational information will help you avoid “reinventing the wheel” when you are designing your interfaces in this specialization.
SR
really helpful course for anyone planning to pursue or is already pursuing User Interface design, or just any sort of development in general (web/app/software/etc)
NA
This was a challenging course! I learned so much about User Interface Design. The instructors are all very knowledgeable and present the information well.
DK
I am so glad to learn from the professors of University of Minnesota. Amazing learning experience. I wish I will continue the whole specialization. Thanks Coursera.
AG
I liked a lot this course, very complete an usefull. A lot of new things come to me after this and is a very huge first step to drown on this field.Great course!
GG
Very good and instructive course. They approach many important concepts for Design and also provide many examples which helped understanding the concepts in practical situations.
AL
It's amazing opportunity to learn something new and get motivated to start your career in this field, 100% will continue to complete all of 5 courses of UI design.
PP
Mostly theoretical and feels a bit old. Having said that, a great place to get you started thinking about importance of UI/UX and motivate to build better systems.
NT
Very helpful for beginners to understand good design vs. bad design. Also helpful for gaining basic knowledge on how to think about design implementation.
SS
The Tutors were really explanatory in their lectures, and the in-between questions during lectures keeps the mind on point. Thanks, Coursera, and thanks University of Minnesota.
HA
Content is really good and I learned concepts really well because its well structure. Videos can become better. I recommend this course to every UI enthusiast.
PC
This is a very good course and I have learnt a lot on user interface design and with more learning I believe I will develop more skills and experience in design. Thank you.
SK
Very helpful for me as an novice in this fields.It help me to get clear basic knowledge about what is need and what is not in designing a user-interface.
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This course is great, but the specialization is not. When you get to the last course, the Capstone, it is designed in a way that you can not complete it. You have to use another website and you can't work without fellow students, but the students do not show up. Worse yet, the teacher assistants do not answer any of the requests for help.
This specialization is designed so that students can not finish.
The course needs more energy, the videos are basically text with a person talking very plain. Some instructors go directly deep into the concepts instead of first defining what a each concept.
English is not my first language but I have already taken other courses at Coursera, which I found very good, and that I was able to follow using the English subtitles.
In this course, there is a teacher who speaks very fast and it is difficult to follow their lessons.
In addition, some peer-graded assignement videos are without English subtitles.
this course is just not about the theory it actually helps you to understand things on practical basis.The test and assignments helps you to apply the disciplines and makes you basic clear.
The course content is adequate enough to justify the course title.
The best part is the assignments and the peer reviews. Reviewing the peers' work is gave me more insights into the subject. And getting reviewed by peers made me correct my self.
Bad parts: Few of the videos are presented in a manner that the presenter was reading notes by looking at a screen and without any expressions. This was defeating the purpose of video tutorial. The basic expectation of a video tutorial over a text reading is that the presenter could put some expression and interactivity.
This course teach me to design not only web user interface but also any interfaces of everyday things. It help me how to address user's problem and how to approach it.
It's very theoretical and has lack of practical (applicable) information. Some lecturers have a huge language problem so it's sometimes hard to watch lectures
Very good and instructive course. They approach many important concepts for Design and also provide many examples which helped understanding the concepts in practical situations.
I don' know that the Chinese Professor really prepared her lectures.. She just read things exactly on the videos. And Let Lana drink some water,please...
Some teachers didn't really interact with the viewer. So some of the lectures felt boring. All in all top notch course.
The course is good, but theories and concepts prevails over practicals and implications
Too much lecturing! The course teaches us about UI design, but It was poorly designed.
I will definitely delete this course if possible!
Has given valuable insights and new points of view. It extended my horizon, even though I am new on the field and have designed several user interfaces not according to the course principles so far.
This is a very valuable course for learning UI/UX design. I just love this course. The professors are very knowledgeable. This is the best course that I've ever taken. Thank You Coursera.
Very well organised course structure, video's ,accessibility, great user experience, well organised evaluation process, very unique course.
Most of the presenters in this course made good use of examples and metaphors to clear up some of the more complex concepts and models. One of the presenters would benefit from this approach, as she typically merely read the items listed on her slides without expanding further. All in all, quite happy with this course.
I really enjoyed this course and learned a lot despite already working as a designer before starting the course. Everything is presented in a well-organized, easy to understand way. The peer-review assignments are also well-designed and help develop the students' analytical skills and improve their feedback-giving abilities. I particularly liked the interview with Don Norman at the end of the course. Even though it was recorded 4 years ago, it's still very relevant and informative today.
The content of this Intro class is excellent. I do think the assignments could afford to be a little more challenging and I do wish that a TA could review the assignments submitted. Other than that, the instructors are very knowledgeable and passionate about the material and make learning about it fun and interesting. I look forward to the other classes in this specialization.
This course was kind of nice introduction to UI Design and thinking about what might be important for the users whilst using the product. Not only theoretical background was made, the course was pretty well structured and well completed with examples of known services (such as Netflix etc.), on which we could describe what is good and what might be better and why.
It was a wonderful and important course in my career, as it was the beginning of access to user interface design, valuable lessons from qualified teachers, the only thing missing is presentations and written summaries in order to access external links and for ease of understanding for translation users. In general, thank you very much