Standford HCI este un curs pe care l-as recomanda din toata inima tuturor designerilor din absolut orice domeniu. Este cel mai bun curs de human centered design pe care l-am putut gasi pe piata, poate fi urmarit online si mai ales este gratuit! (multumiri celor de la Coursera)
Human-Computer Interaction – Scott Klemmer
In this course, you will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You’ll learn several techniques for rapidly prototyping and evaluating multiple interface alternatives — and why rapid prototyping and comparative evaluation are essential to excellent interaction design. You’ll learn how to conduct fieldwork with people to help you get design ideas. How to make paper prototypes and low-fidelity mock-ups that are interactive — and how to use these designs to get feedback from other stakeholders like your teammates, clients, and users. You’ll learn principles of visual design so that you can effectively organize and present information with your interfaces. You’ll learn principles of perception and cognition that inform effective interaction design. And you’ll learn how to perform and analyze controlled experiments online.
In many cases, we’ll use Web design as the anchoring domain. A lot of the examples will come from the Web, and we’ll talk just a bit about Web technologies in particular. When we do so, it will be to support the main goal of this course, which is helping you build human-centered design skills, so that you have the principles and methods to create excellent interfaces with any technology.
O scurta prezentare video a cursului cu Scott Klemmer
Cursul a avut loc in Martie 2013 si probabil va fi reprogramat intr-o noua editie anul viitor (astept cu nerabdare si entuziasm acel moment). Acest lucru inseamna ca nu vei primi o diploma pentru absolvirea cursului si nici urale sau strangeri de mana, in schimb poti urmari in continuare toate materialele cursului si inregistrarile video.
Pana la urma te intereseaza sa inveti lucruri la care in mod normal nu ai avea acees sau sa primesti o hartie digitala care sa ateste acest lucru? Daca le vrei pe ambele, va trebui sa astepti urmatorul curs (te poti abona pentru asta).
Mai multe detalii pe Coursera.org (Iti poti face cont gratuit)