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.
User Experience Research and Design Specialization
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User Experience Research and Design Specialization
Begin your journey in UX Research and Design. Gain a solid foundation in UX Research and Design to create great products and advance your career.
Instructors: Lija Hogan
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.8
(1,967 reviews)
Beginner level
No prior experience required
2 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Understand the basics of UX design and UX research
Use appropriate UX research approaches to inform design decisions
Design a complete product, taking it from an initial concept to an interactive prototype
Overview
Skills you'll gain
- Qualitative Research
- Ideation
- User Experience Design
- Interaction Design
- Persona (User Experience)
- Wireframing
- User Story
- Web Analytics
- UI/UX Research
- User Research
- Survey Creation
- Prototyping
- Sampling (Statistics)
- Design Research
- Surveys
- User Experience
- User Centered Design
- Conceptual Design
- Usability Testing
- A/B Testing
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Taught in English
37 practice exercises
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Specialization - 6 course series
What you'll learn
Understand the fields of UX design and UX research.
Understand design principles and best practices and their basis in human capabilities and behavior
Incorporate a user-centered focus into the design process
Skills you'll gain
Category: User Experience
Category: Prototyping
Category: Human Computer Interaction
Category: User Interface (UI) Design
Category: User Centered Design
Category: Interaction Design
Category: Ideation
Category: Design Thinking
Category: UI/UX Research
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Human Factors
What you'll learn
Understand user needs assessments and qualitative research
Learn an end-to-end methodology for qualitative research
Explore good practices for conducting semi-structured interviews, in-situ observation, and affinity walls
Skills you'll gain
Category: Interviewing Skills
Category: Qualitative Research
Category: Data Collection
Category: Research Methodologies
Category: User Research
Category: Needs Assessment
Category: Human Computer Interaction
Category: Research
Category: User Centered Design
Category: Usability Testing
What you'll learn
Identify different approaches to user testing and their appropriate use
Design and run an user test effectively
Analyze and report on user testing
Skills you'll gain
Category: Usability Testing
Category: User Research
Category: Test Planning
Category: User Experience
Category: Interviewing Skills
Category: Human Computer Interaction
Category: UI/UX Research
Category: Test Case
Category: Usability
What you'll learn
Define and scope the design problem
Create user stories and storyboards to transform information about user needs into design concepts
Develop prototypes from elements of interactions and low-to-high fidelity mockups
Skills you'll gain
Category: Prototyping
Category: User Experience Design
Category: Wireframing
Category: Persona (User Experience)
Category: Interaction Design
Category: Storyboarding
Category: Ideation
Category: Scenario Testing
Category: Mockups
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Conceptual Design
Category: User Research
Category: User Story
Category: User Centered Design
What you'll learn
Understand survey methodology from the UX perspective
Learn techniques to gaining UX insights from large numbers of users, including web analytics, A/B testing, and remote unmoderated studies
Skills you'll gain
Category: Surveys
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Survey Creation
Category: Sampling (Statistics)
Category: A/B Testing
Category: Qualitative Research
Category: Research Methodologies
Category: Web Analytics
Category: Data Collection
Category: Analytics
Category: Data Analysis
Category: UI/UX Research
Category: Web Analytics and SEO
Category: User Research
Category: Sample Size Determination
Category: Research Design
What you'll learn
Gain experience conducting user experience research in a real-world setting
Design and carry out an integrated multi-phase user experience design project
Communicate design concepts and actionable research findings
Skills you'll gain
Category: User Experience Design
Category: Usability Testing
Category: User Research
Category: Design Research
Category: Persona Development
Category: Prototyping
Category: User Centered Design
Category: Wireframing
Category: Design
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Requirements Analysis
Category: Storyboarding
Category: Adobe Photoshop
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