Intro to the Design of Everyday Things

Intro to the Design of Everyday Things

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12 h
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  • Self-paced
  • Free Access
  • Fee-based Certificate
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  • 2 Sequences
  • Introductive Level

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Syllabus

LESSON 1

  • Affordances and Signifiers
  • Discover the various affordance you must account for when designing.
  • Learn about signifiers and how to improve the utility of your designs.

LESSON 2

  • Conceptual Models and the System Image
  • Use conceptual models to improve your designs.
  • Learn how to design something so your users can develop their own conceptual model.

LESSON 3

  • Gulfs of Evaluation and Execution
  • Discover what you are allowed to do, using the Gulf of Evaluation.
  • Get feedback on your designs with the Gulf of Execution.

LESSON 4

  • Design the User Interface for a Timebank
  • Combine everything you have learned in this course to design the user interface for a Timebank.
  • Sketch a concept of your design.
  • Conduct user testing to improve upon your design.

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

  • Don Norman - Don is the author of . He is both a businessperson (he has worked as a VP at Apple, an Executive at HP and UNext) and an academic who has been a faculty member at Harvard, UC San Diego, Northwestern, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IDEO fellow, and a trustee of IIT’s Institute of Design. He can be found at www.jnd.org.
  • Kristian Simsarian - Kristian Simsarian is a design leader, educator and consultant. He is currently the founder and chair of the undergraduate Interaction Design program at California College of the Arts (CCA). Kristian co-founded the Software Experiences practice at IDEO as an Associate Partner, and led design innovation initiatives for many of the world’s most impactful organizations, including: Microsoft, Nokia, Lily, Pfizer, Samsung, Yahoo!, XBOX, SAP, AT&T, Procter & Gamble, the FBI and the National Institutes of Health. After a decade at IDEO he shifted his focus to education while continuing as an IDEO Fellow and independent consultant. As co-teacher of this course, he brings the first steps of actually taking action and becoming a designer yourself.

Platform

Udacity is a for-profit educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). According to Thrun, the origin of the name Udacity comes from the company's desire to be "audacious for you, the student". While it originally focused on offering university-style courses, it now focuses more on vocational courses for professionals.

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