Designing the User Experience
University System of Maryland and University of Maryland, College Park via edX
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- Cost Free Online Course (Audit)
- Session Self Paced
- Language English
- Certificate $199 Certificate Available
- Effort 2-3 hours a week
- Duration 4 weeks long
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Overview
Designing the customer and user experience is essential to creating great products today. Gone is the old paradigm of “form follows function” model of design. The process must be iterative and follow the best product design and development processes. While designing a great user experience can be a lengthy and expensive process, there are approaches to doing it faster and smarter, without compromising results.
This essential product management course explains key design thinking principles around personas, story mapping, and prototyping. Product managers need to know and appreciate product designer tools and processes. By combining these principles with good scrum processes, you’ll learn to create great products that don’t sacrifice design for functionality or feasibility.
This course enables students to transition from ideas to prototyping and concept testing of their products and services. Students learn how best to effectively translate ideas into marketable offerings so that the best product and service ideas are harnessed and create real value for customers and the organization. Emphasis is placed on an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to engineering design, concurrent engineering, design for manufacturing, industrial design, and the business of new product development. Topics include design methods, modeling and simulation, material and manufacturing process selection, platform and modular design, mass customization, planning and scheduling.
Syllabus
Module 1: Development Processes and Organizations
Module 2: Concept Generation and Selection
Module 3: Product Design and Architecture
Module 4: Principles of Prototyping and User Experience
Module 5: Wireframing and Prototyping Models
Module 6: Robust Design Considerations
Module 7: Testing and Troubleshooting
Module 8: Project Management
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The presenter seems uncomfortable, and makes lots of mistakes that are not edited out, making the videos difficult to watch. In many videos, she reads the slides and adds nothing to them or just says "the book tells you what you need to know"... then why am I watching the video?
Some of the quiz questions are not even complete sentences and others ask questions about topics you haven't covered yet.
Good content for high level but the quality of the video doesn't look very professional. Also the instructor looks very experienced but not very professional sometimes.
While the course is very rich and insightful, it could have been better if the presenter is a bit more assertive and sure footed.
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