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Interaction Design

via Designlab

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Overview

What you'll learn

You’ll build a strong foundation in interface and interaction design, and develop a portfolio of work that demonstrates your understanding of core principles — like information architecture, interaction states, system feedback, consistency, and more.

  • 6 Projects
  • Unlimited Feedback
  • 4 Skype Sessions

In this 4-week online course you’ll:

  • Develop an eye for seeing, and a language for talking about, interaction design
  • Become familiar with human interface guidelines, principles of usability and fundamental interaction design details
  • Practice evaluating if and how interactions can be improved
  • Develop a portfolio to demonstrate your interaction design prowess
  • Work with your own expert mentor, with feedback on all your work and weekly Skype sessions

By the end, you’ll have an interaction design toolkit for evaluating and improving the usability of your products. You’ll have examples of your process and work that you can speak to and draw on in related projects. This course is especially useful to anyone looking to develop better communication of and confidence in their interaction design work, and for folks looking to develop their ability to understand and work with product designers.

Interaction Design is made for you

Tailor-made for people who want to understand the design of effective human computer interaction, this course takes 10 hours/week between online lectures, projects & mentor work.

 

  • Aspiring UX designers

    Learn the core techniques of interaction design, and understand the process of building digital products based on the research and insight you've already gained.

  • Product managers & entrepreneurs

    Concepts like usability, user flows, information architecture, and wireframing are key to your job as product manager. Learn how to do it well.

  • Print/graphic designers

    Learn how to translate your print & graphic design expertise into the digital realm, building amazing interactive experiences.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Intro to Interaction Design

You interact with design in almost every waking moment - almost everything that we interact with has been designed. Let’s have a look at those interactions, and the principles that make them effective.

Usability and Heuristics

Become familiar with the evaluative guidelines for effective interaction design.

WEEK 2

Design patterns

Let’s look at the patterns and conventions that are consistently used.

  • Intro to design patterns
  • Forms
  • Search
  • Checkout flow

WEEK 3

Content Strategy

Let’s think about how user goals affect layout.

Information Architecture

How can we help our users accomplish their goals? Learn the fundamentals of IA.

WEEK 4

User Flows

User flow is the path you construct for users to convert. Learn how to design each step of your flow with intention.

Sketching and Wireframes

Let’s look at best practices for communicating the structure and elements of user interfaces.

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