I actually really loved this course and had a lot of fun learning how to use Figma to make wireframes and prototypes. I'm giving this course a lower rating because I think the peer-review system is very flawed. I think peer reviews should be anonymous or at the very least it should be mandatory for people to explain why they are giving a low score if they give one. I think this will help reduce the amount of retaliation low scoring. I marked someone down because they didn't meet the criteria in the prototype assignment and shortly after, I receivd a 1.5/3 with no reason why. I don't mind being scored low, but if there is no feedback, how am I supposed to know what I did wrong and how to fix it? How can I be sure the reviewer wasn't just being mean? Due to the timing and the lack of feedback, I'm fairly certain that people were just retaliating against me. I spent days working on my prototype so it was very discouraging to get marked down for no apparent reason. I resubmitted it without changing anything and received full marks, which makes me further inclined to believe that the original peer reviewer was just being spiteful.

OK! Now we are getting somewhere. Over-all I found this chunk of the course to be a lot of fun. In this section you finally get to flex those creative brain muscles. You will be creating some very basic drawings of the app and how it will function. You are pushed to consider things that you normally wouldn't think about when it comes to creating an app. I have nothing bad to say about this section of the course, but only gave it 4/5 stars because there are moments that feel like a big waste of time. Karen, the instructor, actually goes through showing you (the student) how to draw cirlces, squares, and lines. Yikes! I am taking a design course, I should already have an understanding of how to draw basic shapes. But to Karen's credit, she speaks clearly and always explains everything very well. So what if you have to sit through some basic shape stuff, just find the playback speed option and set it to double. Now you're on your way.

This course ws our first attempt in actually designing, creating paper wireframes to paper prototypes then upgrading to digital wireframe and digital prototypes. The course material was very informative and practical. The issue I faced was in case of such technical assignments sometimes peer reviews may not be very informative or helpful. It would be nice to have it reviewed by someone who has some prior knowledge in designing. The most frustrating part on my part was that I have been waiting for my last assignment to be yet peer reviewed. It had been posted 10 days ago and is still pending peer reviews. Today I am getting the message that you have missed major deadlines in this module. Some major changes need to be done as part of the reviewing and assessment part

Time required is a factor of 10 or 20 more than what is stated, especially for the projects. It's disappointing to do so much work and have a peer dismissively grade it without actually reviewing the project or without understanding the grading criteria. I do appreciate the resubmissions. I enjoyed learning about the ethical principles relating to design, and it was gratifying to finally see the results of the design process materializing in wireframes and prototypes in Figma. But don't count on their time estimates of course completion, especially if you are trying to fit this into a work and home life, or you will be struggling to keep up and to generate a project that actually works well in the time allotted.

Good introduction to paper to digital wireframes, then tutorial in using Figma for low-fidelity prototypes. However, the course could be clearer in explaining the assignments. I was unaware that during the paper wireframes, it was expected to create several screens of a certain user flow of an user completing a task. As I did not create this, I had to redo the paper wireframe, so that I could translate the paper copy into a digital wireframe in figma. I suppose some module seen out of place in this course (e.g. inclusive design), but maybe this course could be their first one for some students (so they needed to provide some modules to cater for these individuals).

I got frustrated trying to create links from one screen to the next. I was unable to get help from anyone in the class or responses for help. I was told to read articles. I spent about 5 hours trying to figure it out. Someone from a Facebook page ended up showing me how to fix it in 30 seconds with just 2 clicks. I wish we had mentors for things like this. That was 100% wasted time and I was so stressed out by it.

While helpful there were compleatly unnecessary nasty crits. Like I used Figma for the first time ever, prototyping. When i have only ever desinged still wireframs with adobe. I got beheaded for forgeting to link up the back buttons. A good crit is constructive, should give instructions on how to use software. Not taring down and i think there should be a function to report nasty crits.

Peer reviewed projects are annoying. When grading people don't use PDF format which is weird that they are allowed to submit other types. Idk what I'm downloading when it's not a PDF

Also had someone who failed my project that followed the guidelines exactly. 3/3 people gave it full points. The one random person deducted points for something that wasn't even on the rubric.

I would like some more time to experiment in FIgma and direction on components and how to make sure elements are essentially autoapplied to all pages and update as you update them. I know Figma is supposed to do that, But i had a hard time organizing my designs to ensure that I didn't have weird duplicates and the right one to open.

The content was farly OK, but the fact that the one from the entire last week is nothing about wireframing nor prototyping makes me think that they were simply like "how can me make this one larger? Oh, I have an idea...".

I enjoyed learning about Figma and howto use it with UX design. However several things seemed out of order or just plain busy work. I would prefer to work on my own portfolio assignment rather than the Coffeehouse project.

When creating wireframes on Figma, it says to use FF0000 which is a red color, yet all of the examples are grey, black, white. Left me confused for the first assignment. Other than that, okay course 3.

Boring a little bit i find all the the courses in this certificate hard to finish, also there is a lot of readings, i would love to see less readings and more videos and quizzes.

Figma hasnt been taught in a way good for beginners. I had to take a different course for it to be able to create a proper functioning prototype.

the voice volume was really low, I cant hear well the voices, even when I had my computer with all the volume.

Course is really good. But Peer review for assignment is not quite useful. Nobody gives proper feedback.

The peer review process needs to be improved. It ruined the whole experience of this course.

The preserntor was cool! The course was a bit boring. But informative nonetheless.

I would have liked feedback on my material, I have to seek feedback from outside.

Do not prefer doing the portfolio projects. Would prefer exams.

I want to see other people's comments and reviews about my test

why i cant submit my quiz ? i have a problem

dry lecture, very useful digital work...

Figma is annoying

Figma is a terrible program. I am a graphic designer that uses a lot of the adobe applications, and for me, Figma was not user friendly. It took me a very long time to complete simple wireframes for the prototype. I don't understand why Figma has multiple unecessary steps for something that should be one step. For example: When you click on the make a square button, you would think after creating a square it would stay on that button, well no it doesn't. It went back to the cursor. I was clicking so many times through out making my project, it was mind numbing. Please use a different program, anything else.