Designing effective interactive systems requires understanding the needs and capabilities of the people who will be using them. In this UX course we will focus on how to interact with users (or potential users) to understand what they need, what they currently do, what they love and hate, and examine human capabilities and behavior as they relate to UX design.



Understanding User Needs
This course is part of User Experience Research and Design Specialization

Instructor: Kentaro Toyama
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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
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There are 5 modules in this course
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3 videos5 readings3 assignments1 peer review2 discussion prompts
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Reviewed on Aug 14, 2020
Found this course very interesting and gained valuable skills which can be applied to multiple subjects of inquiry.
Reviewed on Jul 16, 2019
I really like this lecturer, he gives lots of good examples and analogies for the principles taught in this course. Well done.
Reviewed on May 2, 2021
Really it is a great course from a practical and technical side, It needs a lot of work to complete but it 100% worth it.You will get a very good skill, practicing user research.
Recommended if you're interested in Computer Science
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