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About the Course

This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design and articulate meaning using color, type, and imagery is essential to making interfaces function clearly and seamlessly. Through a series of lectures and visual exercises, you will focus on the many individual elements and components that make up the skillset of an interface designer. By the end of this course, you will be able to describe the key formal elements of clear, consistent, and intuitive UI design, and apply your learned skills to the design of a static screen-based interface. This is the first course in the UI/UX Design Specialization, which brings a design-centric approach to user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective, rather than on one focused on marketing or programming alone. These courses are ideal for anyone with some experience in graphic or visual design and who would like to build their skill set in UI or UX for app and web design. It would also be ideal for anyone with experience in front- or back-end web development or human-computer interaction and want to sharpen their visual design and analysis skills for UI or UX....

Top reviews

TM

May 23, 2021

This course is very useful for a beginner who is looking for the basics of UI/UX course.

This course will give you the basic idea of interface design which very important for its advanced studies.

RS

Nov 20, 2018

I never thought this is possible. I am very grateful to Coursera and Calarts. This is a starting milestone to changing my career life for better. I am ready to pursue more and more with your support.

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By Yash R S

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May 29, 2021

good

By Rika T

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Apr 30, 2022

The videos and reading material were helpful. I also enjoyed working on the weekly projects. However, I did not like the peer review process. I understand that is the most efficient method to review and grade all of the students' projects. However, it is not a fair process and does not allow for learning and growth. On Week 4, both of my peer reviewers deducted points but failed to write the required complete sentence. Instead, they wrote a single word "Good" after deducting points from my project. How can I learn and improve from such lazy and unfair peer reviews? The peer review process needs to be reevaluated and changed so it is a positive experience for all students.

By Saeideh G

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Jul 20, 2023

This course is great. but not outstanding. The course materials are sufficient. but the assignment structure is terrible. So much writing while submitting your assignment, and so many sections that ask for your feedback on your peers' assignments. People, which means peers who are supposed to give you feedback on your work, did not care. They will award you a 1 or even a 0, maybe an exceptional or a 3. However, they will not tell you why?! they just give you a 9 over all and you won't find out why is that?!

That is very awful. The submission and assignment procedure was so inconvenient that I dropped the remaining three courses in this certificated program.

By Kaniesha W

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Jan 21, 2021

I honestly didn't enjoy this course at all. I found the videos to not be organized well; they were repetitive and speculative. One video trying to teach you one thing could be 10 minutes long just because of the slow, agonizing pace and unnecessary and often unrelated examples. I also believe the peer review system is flawed and not very helpful, especially for a course-long project. If we're all trying to learn something, why are we grading someone else's work? It doesn't make sense. As much as I want to continue with web design, I won't be doing it with this specialization.

By Jacques L C

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Apr 22, 2020

Not impressed with course content after reading books like "Don't make me think!" by Steve Krug. I think it misses the point of design patterns implemented in UI libraries like Bootstrap or Material. Peer reviews do not work well on these projects. There is apparently a high degree a subjectivity that influences notation. As other courses on Coursera, I suggest you require 5 reviews and discard the lowest and highest.

By cullyn

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Jul 13, 2020

Pretty bad, almost dated. Some general information relevant but I've seen much better youtube videos.

Awful and pointless assignments really made this course not enjoyable. I'm not interested in learning applications in order to complete it. I was just after the learning concepts in order to apply them to build sites with frameworks like angular.

By Jessica C

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Sep 20, 2021

This course started out good by when I had to redo and assignment for a class I failed it still has not been graded and I asked serveral times over the last two weeks. I feel like I am being ignored so that I will pay for another subscription. If this continued I will not continue with any further certifications.

By Kamil K

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Nov 3, 2023

The information presented is basic and fundamental, which makes sense for the general public, however the presentation and the visual material provided are extremely outdated and provide poor example for the beginner taking on this course.

By Adit G

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Jun 7, 2020

Do not buy this course/ specialization. The only person grading your work is some random peer who most likely doesn't care about your assignment and will give you zero for everything. Read the 3 star reviews before you buy.

By Vinit P

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May 23, 2020

the course is well structured but no matter, if you submit before deadline lack of reviews, might slow down your progress

By Vlada

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Oct 1, 2023

I well love more picture for all the explanations because a little bit confusing but the rest wise nice . Thanks

By Anna S

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Dec 1, 2022

Course without details about grids, designs etc. Only about teoric side

By Yasmin S

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Jun 27, 2023

The course content is good but the peer-reviewing system doesn't work.

By Bastien J

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Nov 29, 2023

Interesting but already outdated and lacks modernity

By Prince C A

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May 23, 2023

NNot too much detailed explanation on how to design

By Arjun R

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Apr 13, 2020

Peer grading is inconsistent and time consuming.

By Mouhamd a

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Oct 11, 2020

Very easy course

By Warren M

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Dec 2, 2024

Out dated

By stephon w

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Aug 7, 2020

This course needs a lot of work. It's a good run down of UI/UX but it needs more parameters letting everyone work on various different platforms is dumb. You'll have people completing work on Figma and some in illustrator at various skill levels making peer reviewing pointless. There should be requirement that you have to use illustrator and photoshop no exepction and give a discount code to people without it. There should be a level of standard to get this certification that doesn't seem so .. easy. I think creating a barrier of entry of completing other certificates of design could change the distance learning landscape forever but also allow people to really develop. Also the curriculum is also terribly lazy. Just my opinion though.

By Melissa Q

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Jun 20, 2020

This course's lessons emphasize very abstract notions, without much specific guidance. I grew tired of hearing the instructor's videos rambling on and on without much substance. Instead, you get a lot of vague, entry-level ponderings, phrases such as "what you've got to think about is..." or "you have to make decisions about..." As much as this course likes to bill itself as "hands on" or project-based learning, you aren't going to get there through the instructional content.

By Pagkaliwagan, D D

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Sep 19, 2022

at the end of my work the last project mark as overidden and i dont why it happens i tried putting all together my work and ist always fail me even if the reviews are good and randomize.

By Gonzalo S F C

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May 3, 2021

The course is great, but the students do not follow the criteria in order to put you a grade in your task. This was not only my problem but others too.

By NARESH G

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Mar 28, 2022

I am not satisfied with the course and i want to un enroll the course because i am not able to understand the things they a bit complex to undestand.

By Aya A

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Jan 31, 2022

there is no technical program we learn on it >>we need to get some skills

By Deleted A

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Sep 21, 2020

this was one of the worst and the most inefficient courses I have taken.