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
• Today
• 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
• 15 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

21 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
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Product Design, Prototyping, and Testing

33 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)

Introduction to Typography

11 reviews

Typography is the art of manipulating the visual form of language to enrich and control its meaning. It’s an essential area of skill and knowledge for graphic designers. Typography predates modern graphic design by around 500 years; it is rich in rules,…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to User Experience Principles and Processes

1263 ratings at Coursera

This UX course provides an introduction to the fields of UX research and design. Learners will gain an understanding of what is involved in UX research, including conducting interviews, evaluating systems, and analyzing systems using principles of good d…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Understanding User Needs

426 ratings at Coursera

Designing effective interactive systems requires understanding the needs and capabilities of the people who will be using them. In this UX course we will focus on how to interact with users (or potential users) to understand what they need, what they cur…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Evaluating Designs with Users

241 ratings at Coursera

When designing systems that work for users, there is no substitute for watching them try to use the system to see what works and what doesn’t. In this UX course, you will learn how to design and conduct tests with users that will tell you how effective…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX Design: From Concept to Prototype

240 ratings at Coursera

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
• 15 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX Research at Scale: Surveys, Analytics, Online Testing

145 ratings at Coursera

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
• 19 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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

75 ratings at Coursera

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
• 28 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX (User Experience) Capstone

47 ratings at Coursera

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
• 19 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to User Experience Design

6536 ratings at Coursera

The focus of this course is to introduce the learner to User Experience (UX) Design User Experience design is design that is user centered. The goal is to design artifacts that allow the users to meet their needs in the most effective efficient and sati…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to UI Design

5 reviews

In this course, you will gain an understanding of the critical importance of user interface design. You will also learn industry-standard methods for how to approach the design of a user interface and key theories and frameworks that underlie the design…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Information Design

566 ratings at Coursera

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
• 14 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 5 days from now (14th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)