Overall this is a great course much like the others included in this specialization, but there were a few inconsistent and unclear instructions for assignments that needed to be submitted. I noticed a few that gave instructions to copy a share link from a Google Doc/Sheet, but then the submission page said to upload a PDF and only had an upload option with no place to paste a link. The last assignment also seemed to confuse a lot of people, as I think it was requesting an updated research presentation, but quite a few people seemed to submit the presentation that was put together earlier in Week 4 of the course. I was also confused about this at first, so it may be worth updating the description of the assignment to make it more clear. For example, the last assignment I think is the only one where there is not a specific template despite needing to add new/different material and no exemplar to help understand what the final product should look like. Otherwise the instruction and content is all great!

The only thing that is difficult about online courses is the lack of true input about your work from a professional. The last project, revising your usability study, was hard for me in the fact I did not have a clear visual of how you wanted me to put the comments in and where to put them in. I probably did a little over thinking as I do but I am a visual person.

I can write anything, but I need a visual example of how that should be. This course is so good about giving written and picture visuals, but it dropped the ball on this one final presentation. Lucky for me I have a friend that is in the field. After I was done and I turned it in, I sent it to him for feed back. I haven't heard from him yet, he is a busy guy, but I know I will and that will help me. I would suggest in the future a visual of how you want the adjustments displayed would be a great additions!!

I didn't think research could be exciting at first, but it turned out to be. I enjoyed making modifications to the prototype based on the research findings. It was fascinating to learn that what we think will work may not always do so, as users have the final say, and how minor changes can have a significant impact on the app's functionality. The only issue I had was with the final research presentation project; I think the instructions might have been more straightforward and clear because I was confused at times, but overall it was a wonderful experience.

I love how much I learned and how much I have improved. It was not easy. I work a fulltime job. 10 hour shifts and on my free time I do some Coursera. The only difficulty is the projects. I have notice it can be difficult to understand what the assignment are asking. It takes me a few more minutes to understand. But when I review others assignments , I see they have missed some information and I inform them. Therefore, I think Google can do a little better an explanting these final weekly projects a little better. Thankyou so much team Google :)

This was a great course overall. I'm knocking a star though as it feels like a real drop in excitement right after course 3 - as this course dives into UX research as opposed to practical designing, some of the instructions for assignments could be made clearer, and in general it felt a bit boring. The great part is that you get to proceed through a full research process (which is quite a trip), if you choose to put the effort in that is, and see how your design is interacted with and evolve as a result. Onward!

The course itself was pretty good. I really liked the instructors.

However, the final graded assignment was not well-designed. The instructions were difficult to follow and the rubric criteria felt arbitrary. Also, this last assignment was difficult to do if you were not completing the other courses in the series (e.g., I needed to update the design, despite not having created it). This course activity is definitely catering toward UXDs understanding research, rather than training UXRs.

The final assignment is not super clear in its instruction. Every other assignment has provided users with a template which they could fill out, whereas the final assignment required people to manipulate an older template, that didn't quite reach the goals of the rubric. While I believe that people should be able to figure this out on their own, when it comes to peer-reviewed assignments I believe doing so leaves room for error or confusion on behalf of the grader.

It was a good course but the final deliverable for week 4 made no sense. During the week we were given an unmarked task to create a presentation then the marked task at the end of the week was to UPDATE the presentation and show that the presentation was updated.

This makes no sense. Surely it is better to just make the hand in a completely new presentation rather than create a presentation only to update and change it later on.

I liked the layout of the info and the division of the research part, very thorough steps on how to conduct and plan a research study, how to synthesize results and how to present them. I am not sure if the presentation part needed to be so thorough, I am pretty sure I could find that info somewhere else. Also it would be great if there have been stronger connections with the research part of the previous courses.

This course is a usability test based research class. So it covers methdolodies about how to plan, test and optimize your design(you shall already have some low fi UI) using success metrics. However, it does not include pre design research, such as how to understand your user group, what user journeys users currently take to complete the tasks and coresponding pain points in different stage of their process.

The course is going good. Although I have 1 request to be made. Please have a booklet with all the written material and the reading pages of this course as it helps us with back reference and retention and one doesn't have to go searching throughout the entire course. Furthermore, you have some really good templates, if you could make a library of those templates for the entire course, it would be great.

The course was not easy to complete. It could have been made more simpler, with better animated videos. Instructors standing in front of camera and reading content makes it boring. For me personally, this was the most difficult course not because of the content but how it is created.

I would suggest to do a proper 'Usability Study' for this particular course, and make it more interesting.

the last assignment was somehow unclear. We didn’t know where to add the “new app design” on the template. Also the phone template was not see-through and we had to delete it and replace our own designs.

The course was really nice and informative but the final assignment’s template and instructions were not so clear (and it was really boring to read the whole page of instructions)

I gratitude to our instructor's & coursera platform to providing a knowledge from industrial standards perspectives to make a perfect UX driven designer and very thankful for helping to learn & conduct ux research study in easy way. However for this course i have a suggestion from my perspective , need to update content as per latest trends to stay updated.

Overall this course was good. Conducting your own UX research is a great skill set to learn. There are some sequencing problems toward the end of the course and a few models that are not consistent with the patterns established throughout the previous courses. This course could really use a re-work from Google to get it better organized.

The course is incredibly useful. The lecturer teaches the material very well. But the template of the last presentation lacks an important part, before and after the changes, which confuses the students and they fail to perform as well as possible in the last exercise, which is evaluated by peers. I hope you fix this.

I really enjoyed this course and this one help me to improve my product such a nice course but I have faced some problem in peer graded assignment submission. When i submitted my work some people didn't give the whole marks beacuse something left out but i want feedback in comments that should be necesary not optional

I think this course covered what it needed to, and did a good job in the types of assignments we needed to complete. I liked that the point was made that probably as a UX researcher we would be working with a team, that made me feel a little less anxious about how much work goes into research and testing.

The only reason I'm not giving it a full five stars is simply because I realized that a UX Researcher is not what I want to be. I am definitely more about the creating process. So having research and more research being most of this chapter, it wasn't my favorite. I can't wait for Part Five.

This was the quickest course in the program. I enjoyed it.

Some of the examples left a lot to infer towards the end of the course. the examples could have been more complete.

One of the downloads was in the wrong place on an Activity, this led to confusion with grading.

An immersive simulation that will bring students into the real world of using UX design will offer more dept in educating newcomers like me. Of course it will be ideal to have a one-on-one instructor to guide you, but I recognise that's a stretch.

awesome course learned so much , specially if u want to work for an organization then this course is really good. The only drawback in the entire google ux course is that it is not reviewed by professionals or teachers but by your peers.

Research isn't my strong suit. It was a bit challenging especially when arranging remote UX testing. But you'll learn a lot. A suggestion on free to use UX testing tools would be most helpful as well and most you seem to have to pay for.

great course, only giving it 4stars because I struggled to get through some assignments because I did not have prior courses knowledge, so it was hard to get some assignments completed. None the less it was very fruitful. I enjoy It.

Interesting to understand others' perspectives of the design and how much insights usability interviews could bring in. Since this course doesn't have much direct support, sometimes its difficult to see if we are going in right track.