University of California San Diego

Interaction Design Specialization

Learn how to design great user experiences. Design that delights users.
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Length Over 6 months
Effort 4 hours per week
Price Free
Subject Design
Level Intermediate
Languages English
Video Transcripts English, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, Portuguese
About this Specialization
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.

What you'll learn

What to learn:

  • Storyboarding

  • Heuristic Evaluation

  • R Programming

  • A/B Testing

Course syllabus

There are 8 Courses in this Specialization

COURSE 1: Human-Centered Design: an Introduction

COURSE 2: Design Principles: an Introduction

COURSE 3: Social Computing

COURSE 4: Input and Interaction

COURSE 5: User Experience: Research & Prototyping

COURSE 6: Information Design

COURSE 7: Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments

COURSE 8: Interaction Design Capstone Project

Meet the instructors

Scott Klemmer

Professor

Cognitive Science & Computer Science

Elizabeth Gerber

Associate Professor, Co-director of the Research Cluster at the Segal Design Institute

McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science (Segal Design Institute), School of Communication, Kellogg School of Management (by courtesy), School of Education and Social Policy (by courtesy)

Jacob O. Wobbrock

Professor

The Information School