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User Experience Research and Design

What You'll Learn

  • Understand the basics of UX design and UX research
  • Design a complete product, taking it from an initial concept to an interactive prototype
  • Use appropriate UX research approaches to inform design decisions
6-Course Series
84 hours
14 hours per course (approx.)
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About User Experience Research and Design

Integrate UX Research and UX Design to create great products through understanding user needs, rapidly generating prototypes, and evaluating design concepts. Learners will gain hands-on experience with taking a product from initial concept, through user research, ideation and refinement, formal analysis, prototyping, and user testing, applying perspectives and methods to ensure a great user experience at every step.

Skills You'll Gain

  • User Analysis
  • Online Surveys (Evaluation Methods)
  • Human Interface Guidelines
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Data Analysis
  • User Experience (UX)
  • Design Strategies
  • User Testing
  • Human-Centered Design
  • Storyboarding
  • User Research
  • Wireframing
  • Product Design
  • UI/UX Research
  • User Interface Prototyping
  • Web Analytics
  • Usability

What You'll Earn

Certificate of Completion
Certificates of completion acknowledge knowledge acquired upon completion of a non-credit course or program.
Modality
100% Online
Format
Self-Paced
Subject
  • Technology
Platform
Coursera
Portrait of Kentaro Toyama
Kentaro Toyama

Associate Professor, School of Information

2 Learning Experiences

Portrait of Mark W. Newman
Mark W. Newman

Associate Professor, School of Information

12 Learning Experiences

Portrait of Clifford Lampe
Clifford Lampe

Associate Professor, School of Information

2 Learning Experiences

Portrait of Lija Hogan
Lija Hogan

Director of Enterprise Research Strategy, UserTesting

3 Learning Experiences

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Beginner Level

No prior experience required.

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6 Courses in this series

  1. Free U-M Access Course

    Introduction to User Experience Principles and Processes

    Learn to conduct UX research and design iterative, user-centered solutions using usability testing, prototyping, and behavioral design principles.

    based on 1285 ratings
  2. Free U-M Access Course

    Understanding User Needs

    Learn to conduct user research through interviews and observations to identify needs and inform UX design.

    based on 453 ratings
  3. Free U-M Access Course

    Evaluating Designs with Users

    Learn to design and run usability tests that measure effectiveness and satisfaction with digital products.

    based on 255 ratings
  4. Free U-M Access Course

    UX Design: From Concept to Prototype

    Transform user needs into design concepts with sketching, storyboarding, wireframing, and prototyping to build interactive user experiences.

    based on 254 ratings
  5. Free U-M Access Course

    UX Research at Scale: Surveys, Analytics, Online Testing

    Gain UX insights at scale using analytics, A/B testing, and remote studies to improve user-centered design decisions.

    based on 178 ratings
  6. Free U-M Access Course

    UX (User Experience) Capstone

    Complete a full UX project from research through prototyping to design and communicate actionable insights for a real-world product.

    based on 73 ratings

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