This course focuses on the importance of design in creating quality products and delighting end users. You’ll learn the necessary skills and resources for designing and building quality products and how to integrate good design into your daily work.
Overview
Syllabus
- What is Design and Why Design Matters
- Introduction to Week 1
- Sam talks about why you need to understand design
- Andrea introduces the course and the teaching team
- Design at SAP
- Scott talks about good design and designing for people
- Goran illustrates why good design focuses on results not tools
- Andrea provides an introduction to the language of design
- Weekly Assignment
- Finish Line
- Downloads
- Design Process
- Introduction to Week 2
- Scott discusses key topics of good user design
- Goran explores how various roles contribute to user experience
- Andrea specifies the contributors involved in the design process
- Andrea illustrates the details of the design process
- Weekly Assignment
- Finish Line
- Downloads
- Needs Finding
- Introduction to Week 3
- Scott discusses the importance of observation
- Before designing: From user research to persona
- Understanding user needs - your turn!
- Bringing it all together: Persona
- Weekly Assignment
- Finish Line
- Downloads
- Conceptual Design
- Introduction to Week 4
- From storyboards to prototypes and mock-ups
- Scott discusses goals of prototyping
- Scott illustrates prototyping techniques
- Weekly Assignment
- Finish Line
- Downloads
- High Fidelity Design
- Introduction to Week 5
- Scott leads you on a journey through design heuristics - part 1
- Scott leads you on a journey through design heuristics - part 2
- Scott leads you on a journey through design heuristics - part 3
- Goran highlights basic design and layout elements
- Weekly Assignment
- Finish Line
- Downloads
- Design at Work
- Introduction to Week 6
- Introduction to Lydia's video
- Lydia shows how to design user experience in an agile world
- Design review of the Water usage monitoring application
- Weekly Assignment
- Final Thoughts
- Finish Line
- Downloads
Taught by
Andrea Anderson, Goran Peuc, Sam Yen and Scott Klemmer
