Online Course – University of Michigan Certified Professional Internship in User Experience Research and Design

Start 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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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת במחקר ועיצוב חוויית משתמש של אוניברסיטת מישיגן

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Usability tests
  • User Experience (UX)
  • Prototype characterization
  • UX research
  • User Experience (UX)

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • UX Researcher
  • UX Designer
  • Product Designer
  • User Experience Analyst
  • Interaction Designer
  • Usability Tester
  • Prototyping Specialist
  • User Experience Strategist

Internship – 6-part course series

  • Combining UX research and UX design to create great products by understanding user needs.
  • Rapid prototyping and evaluation of design ideas.
  • Learners will gain practical experience in accompanying a product from the initial idea:
    • User research
    • Idea formation and judgment
    • Formal analysis
    • Prototype creation
    • User testing
  • Applying perspectives and methods to ensure an excellent user experience at every stage.

Hands-on Learning Project

This Coursera specialization in UX Research and UX Design culminates in a final project, where learners will combine principles of UX research and design to design an entire product, from initial idea to interactive prototype.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Introduction to user experience principles and processes

  • Course 1 • 11 hours • 4.8 (1,529 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Understand the fields of user experience design (UX) and user experience research.
  • Understand design principles and best practices and their basis in human capabilities and behavior.
  • Incorporate user focus into the design process.
Skills you will gain
  • Category: User Research
  • Category: Human-Computer Interaction
  • Category: User Experience (UX)
  • Category: User Experience Design (UXD)

Understanding user needs

  • Course 2 • 10 hours • 4.7 (505 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Understand user needs assessments and qualitative research.
  • Learn end-to-end methodology for qualitative research.
  • Explore good practices for semi-structured interviews, field observations, and affinity maps.
Skills you will gain
  • Category: User Research
  • Category: Relationship diagram
  • Category: Human-Computer Interaction
  • Category: User Experience (UX)

Evaluating designs with users

  • Course 3 • 8 hours • 4.8 (286 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Identify different approaches to user testing and their appropriate use.
  • Design and run user tests effectively.
  • Analyze and report on user testing.
Skills you will gain
  • Category: User Experience (UX)
  • Category: Website Analytics
  • Category: UX Research at Scale
  • Category: Remote User Testing
  • Category: Survey Methodology

UX Design: From Idea to Prototype

  • Course 4 • 15 hours • 4.8 (281 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Define and constrain the design problem.
  • Create user stories and storyboards to transform user needs information into design ideas.
  • Develop prototypes based on low- to high-level interaction elements and models.
Skills you will gain
  • Category: User Research
  • Category: Adobe Photoshop
  • Category: User Experience (UX)
  • Category: User Experience Design (UXD)

UX research at scale: surveys, analytics, online testing

  • Course 5 • 18 hours • 4.3 (195 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Understand survey methodology from a UX perspective.
  • Learn techniques for extracting UX insights from large numbers of users, including website analytics, A/B testing, and unsupervised field studies.
Skills you will gain
  • Category: User Experience (UX)
  • Category: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Category: UX Research
  • Category: Design Heuristics

UX (User Experience) Final Project

  • Course 6 • 18 hours • 4.7 (59 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Gain experience in conducting user experience research in a real-world environment.
  • Design and execute an integrated and multi-phase user experience design project.
  • Communicate design ideas and research findings that can be implemented.
Skills you will gain
  • Category: Storyboards
  • Category: User Experience (UX)
  • Category: Website layout
  • Category: Prototyping
  • Category: User Experience (UX)

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