Design & Creativity Courses

Gamification

58 reviews

Gamification is the application of game elements and digital game design techniques to non-game problems, such as business and social impact challenges. This course will teach you the mechanisms of gamification, why it has such tremendous potential, and…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 4th Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society

18 reviews

This is a course aimed at making you a better designer. The course marries theory and practice, as both are valuable in improving design performance. Lectures and readings will lay out the fundamental concepts that underpin design as a human activity. We…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Human-Centered Design: an Introduction

6 reviews

In this course, you will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You'll learn several techniques for rapidly prototyping and evaluating multiple interface alternatives -- and why rapid prototyping and comparative…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University System of Maryland;  University of Maryland, College Park

Product Design, Prototyping, and Testing

25 reviews

Translate product ideas into tangible assets by creating wireframes, 3D renderings, prototypes, and minimum viable products (MVPs) to test assumptions and validate customer interests

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Ignite Your Everyday Creativity

6 reviews

Creativity is an essential skill for the 21st Century that is innate in all people and can be nurtured. We constantly need new and better ideas for almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives. The goal of this course is to help you recogni…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design Principles: an Introduction

3 reviews

What makes an interface intuitive? How can I tell whether one design works better than another? This course will teach you fundamental principles of design and how to effectively evaluate your work with users. You'll learn fundamental principles of visua…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX Design: From Concept to Prototype

Great design doesn’t come out of nowhere; it is born, nurtured, and grown--all through a systematic, learnable process. In this UX course, you will explore the process of taking a basic concept, grounded in user needs, and developing it into a design tha…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX Research at Scale: Surveys, Analytics, Online Testing

This UX course will provide an overview of survey methodology from the perspective of UX research. UX surveys typically focus on uncovering user needs, connecting needs to user characteristics, and gaining insight into user attitudes towards systems they…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX (User Experience) Capstone

In this UX capstone course, you’ll conduct a multi-stage user experience project to design a product from scratch. You will employ interviews, inspection methods, and user testing, along with ideation, design, and prototyping methods to gain and communic…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

User Experience & Interaction Design for AR/VR/MR/XR

This second course in the XR for Everybody specialization looks at how to design new user experiences for XR technologies. The course provides learners with a design thinking mindset and equips them with a fundamental toolbox for creating XR applications…

• Coursera
• 27 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

California Institute of the Arts

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

20 reviews

Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures—the building blocks of graphic design—are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 13th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Information Design

1 review

A blank canvas is full of possibility. If you have an idea for a user experience, how do you turn it into a beautiful and effective user interface? This covers covers principles of visual design so that you can effectively organize and present informati…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 26th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Social Computing

People are social creatures and the modern Internet reflects that. Technology has made collaboration at a distance possible in new ways that present their own set of challenges. This course will introduce you to the major challenges and opportunities for…

• Coursera
• 9 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Input and Interaction

In this course, you will learn relevant fundamentals of human motor performance, perception, and cognition that inform effective interaction design. You will use these models of how people work to design more effective input and interaction techniques. Y…

• Coursera
• 9 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design Thinking and Predictive Analytics for Data Products

This is the second course in the four-course specialization Python Data Products for Predictive Analytics, building on the data processing covered in Course 1 and introducing the basics of designing predictive models in Python. In this course, you will u…

• Coursera
• 8 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)