Tsinghua University is offering a free online course on Human Factors and Culture in Design. This UX/UI course should help product developers, managers, and marketers, as well as designers, develop unique critical, analytical perspectives in user experience and user interface.
In this seven-week course, applicants will learn user experience and user interface design-key skills to succeed as a product manager, developer, and designer.
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( votes)Course At A Glance
Length: 7 weeks
Effort: 3 hours pw
Subject: Art & Culture
Institution: Tsinghua University and edx
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes, Add a Verified Certificate for $49
Session: Closed
Providers’ Details
Tsinghua University, founded in 1911, is one of the most prestigious universities in Asia. Tsinghua University consists of 19 schools and 55 departments with faculties in science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, architecture, management, law, medicine, arts and design.
About This Course
Understanding UX design, or how to design with the user in mind, is not only a requirement for designers, but also a skill product managers and developers should develop throughout their careers. This UX/UI course should help product developers, managers and marketers as well as designers develop unique critical, analytical perspectives in user experience and user interface.
Why Take This Course?
This course will focus around this theme, starting with specific design cases and gradually diving deeper into the newest research findings, taking learners from the simplest to the most complicated studies of user analysis, task analysis, user interface design, cross-cultural design, user experience design, robot and human interaction design, the newest health care and human factor research projects, and more.
Learning Outcomes
- Concepts of User-Centered Design from a cultural perspective
- Scientific methods behind design and evaluation of everyday design cases
- How to apply knowledge, culture and technology to shape the future of design
Instructors
Pei-Luen Patrick Rau
P.L. Patrick Rau is the Professor of Industrial Engineering Department at Tsinghua University in Beijing, PhD supervisor, and the Director of Human Factors and Ergonomics Institute.
Requirements
Engineering, design, information, communication related major can take this course.
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