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Begin your journey in UX Research and Design . Gain a solid foundation in UX Research and Design to create great products and advance your career.
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Understand the basics of UX design and UX research
Use appropriate UX research approaches to inform design decisions
Design a complete product, taking it from an initial concept to an interactive prototype
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Integrate UX Research and UX Design to create great products through understanding user needs, rapidly generating prototypes, and evaluating design concepts. Learners will gain hands-on experience with taking a product from initial concept, through user research, ideation and refinement, formal analysis, prototyping, and user testing, applying perspectives and methods to ensure a great user experience at every step.
Applied Learning Project
This Coursera specialization in UX Research and UX Design concludes with a capstone project, in which learners will incorporate UX Research and Design principles to design a complete product, taking it from an initial concept to an interactive prototype.
Understand the fields of UX design and UX research.
Understand design principles and best practices and their basis in human capabilities and behavior
Incorporate a user-centered focus into the design process
Understand user needs assessments and qualitative research
Learn an end-to-end methodology for qualitative research
Explore good practices for conducting semi-structured interviews, in-situ observation, and affinity walls
Identify different approaches to user testing and their appropriate use
Design and run an user test effectively
Analyze and report on user testing
Define and scope the design problem
Create user stories and storyboards to transform information about user needs into design concepts
Develop prototypes from elements of interactions and low-to-high fidelity mockups
Understand survey methodology from the UX perspective
Learn techniques to gaining UX insights from large numbers of users, including web analytics, A/B testing, and remote unmoderated studies
Gain experience conducting user experience research in a real-world setting
Design and carry out an integrated multi-phase user experience design project
Communicate design concepts and actionable research findings
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