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
• 2 weeks from now (5th Sep)
• 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
• 3 days from now (22nd 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)

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
• 1 week from now (29th Aug)
• 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
• 19 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 1 week from now (29th 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
• 15th Aug, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design Principles: an Introduction

1297 ratings at Coursera

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
• 13 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 1 week from now (29th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX Design: From Concept to Prototype

241 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
• 3 days from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX Research at Scale: Surveys, Analytics, Online Testing

146 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
• 3 days from now (22nd Aug)
• 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
• 3 days from now (22nd Aug)
• 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
• 3 days from now (22nd 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
• 3 days from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Social Computing

810 ratings at Coursera

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
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 1 week from now (29th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Interaction Design Capstone Project

158 ratings at Coursera

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 Silico…

• Coursera
• 36 hours worth of material, 10 weeks long
• 1 week from now (29th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design Thinking and Predictive Analytics for Data Products

61 ratings at Coursera

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
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 3 days from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)