This course was really good! It provided a solid foundation for the beginning of the Design Thinking Framework. The instructor and guest speakers were all personable and knowledgable. My only request is that there would be additional coverage on how to form a problem statement and more detail regarding the "Define" stage. Overall, definitely worth taking to understand the framework.

Slightly overlong feeling/tedious, though I came to believe it was on purpose. This section did require more in-depth exploration, and I enjoyed the assignments. I give 4 stars due to "Psychology" being an "optional" section, when I feel that in order to properly empathize equitably with users, UX Designers should have a more thorough understanding of the foundations of psychology.

Great course! Valuable information and practice in regards to Competitive Audit, but definitely takes more time than alotted and might be best suited for team work or broken down into smaller parts. Having to search for relevant websites also took some time. And honestly not sure how to answer some questions like, how do the competitors rate themselves (very subjective).

Course 2

This course was helpful. It does become a bit convoluted with the varying practice exercises instead of focusing in on our main project. Peer reviews to determine our grades are somewhat frustrating as we are all learning together and grades are given without feedback, which makes improving or changing our product difficult by having to guess what was wrong.

This course contained very important information, especially in week 3 and week 4 where we were learning about defining user problems and conducting competitive audits. Also, it isn't possible to change the theme you choose for your portfolio, and for me, it's a big problem. Because the competitors for the mobile app for the online menu are truly outstanding.

Very well laid out, especially if you are a beginner. The additional resources assist if you having trouble figuring out what the assignments require of you. Great facilitator and reference material. Prepare for the volume of content - while uncomplicated, you need a level of concentration to get through all of it. With that said, this is a research module.

The end of some sections usually don't lead to what was promised in the last few seconds of the video. For example, "and that is the end of empathy mapping. Next, we will see how you can use these maps to create personas." The next video or section doesn't even lead to personas. It isn't annoying at first, but it happening frequently is the problem.

This course is little challenging for beginner/ introvert like myself. Conducting interviews, creating persona, writing user story, creating problem statement all these were new to me. But once I've finished this course, a feeling of accomplishment was felt. Great learning curve personally! Thank you Google for creating this course.

The course content was fantastic. It's really thorough and I really learn a lot. But I had trouble when the course was updated when I had just completed my last assignment. I had to resubmit all my assignments and re-do a test and wait 10 days for a peer review, during this time my financial aid expired, causing more difficulty.

There were a lot of concepts covered in this course and it would have been good to break them down into more weeks. I found myself getting fatigued by the long list of things to cover each week. I'd also like to see the subject's "prompt" option being more used, rather than just using the example provided for some of the tasks.

I learned a lot of things from this course and veing able to carry out all that was asked for makes me feel proud. just one little thing, if i could download the reading materials that are not web articles that would have helped a great deal because i enjoy reviewing from time to time and making sure i remember the essentials.

This course has great information and you can definitely learn so much. The reason why I couldn't give 5 stars is because it allows for people to halfway do their work and get the full credit for many assignments. Seeing some of the peers work that did that was frustrating because of the amount of work I put into my own.

Course 2 was a long course. The final project became a little confusing and I felt tied to the assigned project, but I did my best. Later I realized I used a presentation template instead of a report template and did way more work than I had to do. But so far so good. This is great information, presented in small chunks.

Great continuation to the course, some of the topics can be hard at first but as soon as you get used to it with practice, it gets easier. The only problem was that a lot of the materials were reading, so it was a lot of articles linked which was fine but would have loved more videos or longer video lengths.

Good for starters! I recommend reading all of the optional material; there's a lot to be learned from other resources, while taking these courses. I didn't benefit much from the Coffee House portion of this course; I focused mostly on my own project. Didn't seem necessary to split my focus between the two.

The course is very well designed ,lot of things to learn from creating user personas to creating competitive Audit reports . There are videos ,readings & assignments ,at apoint why so much repetitivesness but at the end its very helpful to understand & keep things in mind, how things work in real life.

Engaging content and useful, practical, hands-on assignments. One suggestion I have is to require all students to include their design prompt for each peer review assignment. It can be difficult to grade another's work if you're not sure what kind of app they are building for their portfolio project.

I found this second one to be harder. I enjoyed this one more though because of the hands on projects. I think the peer review is a great things but I think some people may not be honest with their peer reviewing and are just being lazy which can effect your grade. Happy for resubmissions though.

This second course helped me understand design ideation, learning how to conduct competitive audits, brainstorming approaches (like How Might We and Crazy Eights), and determining if additional research is needed. It has been great, but maybe the part of 'sketching' wasn't really necessary.

This course was legitimately tough! The assignments required real research, ideation, and critical thinking. Through this course I began developing an idea for an app and am getting really excited about some of the ideas for features that I came up with throughout the process.

The lectures were very intensive. It was worthwhile, but with the daunting number of steps, I don't know when I'll finish and I'm worried I'll fall behind. There are five more courses left, but I am not confident that I will be able to complete them if they are so voluminous.

I feel that i got overwhelmed with information. luckily i was able to pull 100% of the course again... tried 5 times the quiz to achieve this. hopefully i will keep this grades up. im enjoying the course so far, a lot. im very discipline with my things. thanks for everything

This course was good but I struggled with the competitive audit portion. The spreadsheet was hard to manipulate (example: adding images with/or additional lines of text). Maybe link to a mini-tutorial in that section to help users unfamiliar with spreadsheets.

I liked the course and it was pretty heavy material, but the peer reviews for the most projects are lacking. No one seems to really be grading it at all, especially the last project since it was so heavy. It's disappointing that these aren't reviewed better.

I would have given this five stars because it was very informative, but a couple of times the assignments were out of order compared to the presenter's explicit instruction, and a couple of times, I wasn't able to save notes during a video.

Thank you so much!