About this course: Apply the skills you learned during the sequence of courses -- from needfinding to visual design -- as you redesign a new interface, service, or product for your Interaction Design Capstone Project. We’re working with some exciting design teams in Silicon Valley across multiple industries to develop real-world design challenges for this final project. Upon completion, you will have a polished capstone project you can share in your design portfolio to highlight your work and document your design process.
Created by: University of California, San Diego
Taught by: Scott Klemmer, Associate Professor
Cognitive Science & Computer Science
| Basic Info |
Course 8 of 8 in the
Interaction Design Specialization.
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| Commitment | 10 weeks of study, 4-5 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Design Thinking Capstone
Welcome to the Interaction Design Capstone Project!
3 videos, 1 reading
WEEK 2
Needfinding
As Yogi Berra said, you can observe a lot just by watching. Watching how people do things is a great way to learn their goals and values, and come up with design insight. We call this needfinding. This module trains your eyes and ears to come up with user need...
2 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Needfinding
WEEK 3
Ideation
To maximize your chances of having a great idea, it helps to generate a lot of ideas. Brainstorming is a strategy for rapidly generating lots of ideas. It was named by advertising executive Alex Osborn in his 1953 book, Applied Imagination. When brainstorming,...
1 video
Graded: Ideation
WEEK 4
Prototype
Prototyping is the pivotal activity that structures innovation, collaboration, and creativity in design. Prototyping gets ideas out of your head and into the world. Like a conversation, your ideas will evolve as you articulate them and make them concrete. Prot...
1 video, 1 reading
Graded: Prototype
WEEK 5
Design Heuristics
Design can succeed (or fail) in many ways. That said, there are common heuristics that will get you on the right path. In this module, you will conduct heuristic evaluations (HEs) of another learner's paper prototype. The heuristic evaluations will be a way to...
3 videos
Graded: Heuristic Evaluation
WEEK 6
A Plan & a Skeleton
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Figuring out what that first step is--and then what the one after that is--can be especially daunting with creative projects. Making forward progress is a lot easier if you write down concrete, actionabl...
2 items
Graded: A plan & a skeleton
WEEK 7
Ready for Testing
Crunch time! Your interactive prototypes have to be ready for user testing by the end of this assignment.
2 items
Graded: Ready for Testing
WEEK 8
Test your prototype
In this assignment, you will test your prototype in person with two people to find usability bugs & potential improvements.
1 video
Graded: Test Your Prototype
WEEK 9
Results!
You've got data from online users that compares two alternatives. How can you tell whether there is a real difference? Statistical tests, like the CHI-squared test, tell you whether the behavior you observed was likely to have occurred by chance, or whether th...
2 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Results!
WEEK 10
Show & Tell
You've done all this great work, and your hard effort has paid off. You've brainstormed, prototyped, designed, iterated, refined, and evaluated. Now's your chance to share your work with the world. This is a great opportunity to tell your design story, and use...
2 items
Graded: Show & Tell
FAQs
How It Works
Coursework
Each course is like an interactive textbook, featuring pre-recorded videos, quizzes and projects.
Help from Your Peers
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Certificates
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Pricing
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Ratings and Reviews
Amazing course, it push you to go through the right design process making it fun and useful
Amazing journey in interaction design.
Find your self discovering ideas for doing things that you did not expect.
Start small, grow, and get amazed where your ideas can lead you to.
Very good course!
I feel like 8 weeks was too short and the project was too rushed. But overall of good value.
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This course is a must for all who want to be designers. It takes you through all the design process. Although the course work recommends keeping aside 4 hours per week, I would suggest keeping 20 hours/ week. It can get strenuous, but it is totally worth it.