The User-Centred Design (UCD) Process

The User-Centred Design (UCD) Process, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.3, with 36 lectures, based on 31 reviews, and has 7238 subscribers.

You will learn about What is User-Centred Design? Why is User-Centred Design important or beneficial for your project? How to apply User-Centred Design within your development process? How to cope with the challenge of integrating UCD into agile development processes? Which methods do exist to perform User-Centred Design? Which methods are an absolute must to know? How to implement User-Centred Design right away? What is the Hierarchical Task Analysis? How to create Design Personas? How to apply Card Sorting, Paper Mockups and Hi-Fi Prototypes in the design phase? How do standard questionnaires work: NASA Task Load Index and System Usability Scale? This course is ideal for individuals who are Computer Science students or Media Computer Science students or UX and UI Designers or People who are interested in involving users and their needs into engineering processes or Developers who need to create a UI that sells It is particularly useful for Computer Science students or Media Computer Science students or UX and UI Designers or People who are interested in involving users and their needs into engineering processes or Developers who need to create a UI that sells.

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Summary

Title: The User-Centred Design (UCD) Process

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.3

Number of Lectures: 36

Number of Published Lectures: 36

Number of Curriculum Items: 36

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 36

Original Price: $129.99

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What You Will Learn

What is User-Centred Design?

Why is User-Centred Design important or beneficial for your project?

How to apply User-Centred Design within your development process?

How to cope with the challenge of integrating UCD into agile development processes?

Which methods do exist to perform User-Centred Design?

Which methods are an absolute must to know?

How to implement User-Centred Design right away?

What is the Hierarchical Task Analysis?

How to create Design Personas?

How to apply Card Sorting, Paper Mockups and Hi-Fi Prototypes in the design phase?

How do standard questionnaires work: NASA Task Load Index and System Usability Scale?

Who Should Attend

Computer Science students

Media Computer Science students

UX and UI Designers

People who are interested in involving users and their needs into engineering processes

Developers who need to create a UI that sells

Target Audiences

Computer Science students

Media Computer Science students

UX and UI Designers

People who are interested in involving users and their needs into engineering processes

Developers who need to create a UI that sells

Did you know that about 50 % of your development time and cost of a software project are dedicated to user interface engineering? Depending on what kind of project you are working on, in absolute numbers, that might be a lot! Fact No. 2: Providing a good user interface is the top-most important acceptance criterion that makes interested people become customers. Still not sure? Fact No. 3: Creating a good user interface does not only mean to implement a UI that works and is fast. It also has to provide a satisfying user experience – which, to be honest, highly depends on the individual user than on your programming skills.

You see: Engineering a great user interface is nothing that can be done purely within your team and by your programmers. You inevitably have to involve real potential users in one way or another. And that is the crucial part: How can you do that? You do not want to disturb your programmers during their work. You do not want to let development cost and time effort explode.

But: You want to involve users into your UI design process as efficiently and effective as possible!

This course will show you how! This course introduces you to the concept of User-Centred Design (UCD). Maybe you already know what Cooperative, Participatory or Contextual Design is. If so: UCD takes inspiration on these principles and combines the approaches to one efficient and improved process.

You will learn how the UCD is structured, how the phases of UCD are performed and what specific methods are available to make your software project user-centred. Furthermore, you will learn how to integrate the UCD process into existing software development processes, such as the widely used agile development strategies as well as into classic spiral-model-based or v-model-based development.

Finally, we will take a closer look into techniques that you should know to implement UCD right away. We will take a look at: Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA), Personas, Open and Closed Card Sorting, Paper Mockups, Hi-Fi Prototypes, NASA Task Load Index (TLX), System Usability Scale (SUS) and Cognitive Walkthrough (CWT).

After finishing this course, you know everything that is necessary to start designing user interfaces the user-centred way!

I would love to see you in that course and I am always listening to feedback to update the course according to your wishes. So feel free to enrol, take a look and send me a message if there is something you need more details information about.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Start

Lecture 2: Bio

Chapter 2: What is User-Centred Design (UCD)?

Lecture 1: Intro – What is UCD?

Lecture 2: Principles of UCD

Lecture 3: Problems Addressed by UCD

Lecture 4: When to Use UCD

Lecture 5: Definition

Lecture 6: UCD vs. Participatory Design

Chapter 3: What is UCD? – The 4 Phases

Lecture 1: Phases of UCD

Lecture 2: Phase 1: Context Analysis

Lecture 3: Phase 2: User Analysis

Lecture 4: Phase 3: Design

Lecture 5: Phase 4: Evaluation

Lecture 6: Iteration of UCD

Chapter 4: Help to improve this course

Lecture 1: Feedback Request – May I ask you a question?

Chapter 5: How to Incorporate UCD into Common Development Strategies?

Lecture 1: Intro – How to Incorporate UCD in Development?

Lecture 2: Standard Software Development Processes

Lecture 3: Process 1+2: Waterfall Model and Spiral Model

Lecture 4: Process 3: V Model

Lecture 5: Agile Software Development Processes

Lecture 6: Process 4.1: Agile Iteration

Lecture 7: Process 4.2: Agile Lifecycle

Chapter 6: Toolbox of Methods – Which Methods are Available?

Lecture 1: Intro – Toolbox of Methods

Lecture 2: Toolbox for Context Analysis

Lecture 3: Toolbox for User Analysis

Lecture 4: Toolbox for Design Phase

Lecture 5: Toolbox for Evaluation Phase

Chapter 7: Quick Start Toolbox – Step-by-Step Guides

Lecture 1: Intro – Quick Start Toolbox

Lecture 2: Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA), Context Analysis

Lecture 3: Personas, User Analysis

Lecture 4: Card Sorting, Design

Lecture 5: Paper Mockups, Design

Lecture 6: Hi-Fi Prototyping, Design

Lecture 7: NASA Task Load Index (TLX), Evaluation

Lecture 8: System Usability Scale (SUS), Evaluation

Lecture 9: Cognitive Walkthrough (CWT), Evaluation

Instructors

David Gollasch
Computer Scientist and HCI Research Associate

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