University of California San Diego
Design Principles: an Introduction
What makes an interface intuitive? How can one can tell whether one design works better than another?| Length | 3 to 4 weeks |
| Effort | 3- 4 hours per week |
| Price | Free |
| Subject | Design |
| Level | Beginner |
| Languages | English |
| Video Transcripts | Chinese, Russian, Turkish, English, Spanish, Japanese |
About this Course
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 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.
What you'll learn
What to learn:
A/B Testing
User Experience (UX)
User Experience Design (UXD)
User Interface
Course syllabus
Week 1: Welcome and Course Overview
Direct Manipulation and Representations
Week 2: Visual Design and Information Design
Week 3: Designing Experiments
Meet the instructors
Scott Klemmer
Professor
Cognitive Science & Computer Science