My course on human-computer interaction is available over on Udemy.
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.
Here is a long list of links to all the blogs I have written about HCI and which I have used in this course: 101 ways to think about human-computer interaction.
- Learn a practical UX skillset of laws and tools from Fitt’s Law to the Cultural Probe so that your design follows HCI guides and rules in the literature from Don Norman’s Seven Principles of User-Centred Design to Ben Schneiderman’s Eight Golden Rules of Interaction Design using terms such as ‘Affordances’ (does the design give me a clue as to how it works?), ‘Mimicry’ & ‘Transference’ (which do exactly what they say), ‘Internal Locus of Control’ (empowering your user) and ‘Recognition over Recall” (a concept made famous by the first graphical user interface at Xerox Parc).
- Understand the practice of design theory, which like Human Factors and Ergonomics began in Ancient Greece, by exploring familiar yet ancient concepts such as: ‘Form Follows Function’ and ‘No Function in Structure’ (think Pinterest) along with the more buzzy: ‘The Medium is the Message’.
- Learn about your user’s psychology in the field of Cognitive Science: Memory, Perception, Attention, Emotion and Situatedness so that you can design a better UX experience by communicating more effectively and managing their expectations.
- Following examples and exercises, create a design for a mobile app or website which satisfies your user and then think about ways to extend this using social media and big data.
- Learn that we are all social psychologists and designers because of the world we live in.
- Gain the knowledge you need to be able to design and 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:
And, here’s the link again to my course on human-computer interaction, available on Udemy, which was selected by Udemy to part of their Udemy business program.
Last Course Update 13/9/2024