Posted by [ Part 1: Rethinking my course on HCI ]
I designed the materials as a fusion between the academic lectures I’ve given and the practical design skills a UX consultant needs using everything I’ve ever blogged about on this website: 101 ways to think about human-computer interaction and I keep rethinking the course to create better ways of teaching.
In this course you will learn about:
* The Human: We look at the human through the lense of cognitive science: Perception, memory and psychology so we can manage and guide user expectations when looking at an interface. We then learn how capture information about our users through cultural probes, so that we create user personas, journeys and scenarios, so that we know all about users need and preferences from I/O to operating systems.
* The Computer: We consider different inputs and outputs from barcodes to touch screens with a focus on accuracy and learnability, so we can choose the right one, as we define what data we need, and what the system architecture should look like and how that reflects the mental processing of our user group.
* The Interaction: We learn all of the HCI guides and rules and UX laws and tools and apply them all to creating an effective visual design solution.
*The Evaluation: We explore different ways of measuring whether our design is a success.
By the end of the course, you will have all the skills you need to design a mobile app or website and to speak with confidence about the interaction between people and the increasingly complex computer systems our modern culture demands, thus becoming an agent for change, yourself.
Need to know what skills you already have which make you ready to take this course? Watch the video below:
Grab it over on Udemy: Ruth’s course on human-computer interaction.
