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.
本課程是 UI / UX Design 專項課程 專項課程的一部分
Visual Elements of User Interface Design
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1Course and Specialization Overview
Welcome! In this first module I will summarize the assignments and expectations of this course, as well as the UI/UX Design Specialization.
2 個視頻 （總計 6 分鐘）, 4 個閱讀材料
4 個閱讀材料
About this course3分鐘
About the assignments3分鐘
Required Tools2分鐘
About CalArts and the Program in Graphic Design3分鐘
What IS a user interface anyway?
In this first week we will look at some basic broad concepts and contexts for user interfaces, looking at examples both on and off-screen. We will look at basic principles of interaction theory, discuss the relationship between UI and UX, and examine the relationship between coding and designing. We will discuss the roles of functionality and aesthetics in interface design and outline a "form-first" philosophy to user interface design. This week will focus on background information and terminology and will give you the context and vocabulary necessary before you start making great interfaces!
9 個視頻 （總計 44 分鐘）, 2 個閱讀材料, 2 個測驗
9 個視頻
What is a User Interface?3分鐘
The Relationship Between UI and UX5分鐘
Roles in UI/UX5分鐘
A Brief Historical Overview of Interface Design4分鐘
Interface Conventions: Theory6分鐘
Interface Conventions: Application7分鐘
Template vs Content7分鐘
Aesthetics & Functionality3分鐘
2 個閱讀材料
About UI vs UX graded quiz1分鐘
Interface Conventions: Review15分鐘
2 個練習
UI vs UX20分鐘
Interface Conventions20分鐘
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2Formal Elements of Interface Design
This week we are going to examine the various formal elements that make up an interface. We’ll start out with the larger questions of content, context and audience that frame any UI/UX project. In other words: What is it? Who is it for? And, where does it live? And we’ll look at the big picture of overall design direction, what is often referred to as “look and feel”. From there we’ll go into detail of how the basic components of how visual design works in the context of interface design: language, shape, color, imagery, typography, and icons. These areas will be the formal building blocks you will use to create the more complex visual structure of a screen-based user interface.
8 個視頻 （總計 52 分鐘）, 1 個閱讀材料, 1 個測驗
8 個視頻
Design Before Design4分鐘
Look and Feel8分鐘
Language as a design tool5分鐘
Color and Shape8分鐘
Imagery7分鐘
Typography8分鐘
Icons8分鐘
1 個閱讀材料
Project Brief3分鐘
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3Active Elements of Interface Design
This week we are going to take our static interface elements and begin to think about how a user interacts with them. In other words, how to bring these elements a stage closer to having a life on the screen. We’ll be looking at navigational conventions, such as menus, buttons, and icons in different states. Our focus will move from what the graphic interface looks like, to include how it works and how it responds to the user. By adding interactivity to our static designs, the idea is to think more deeply about the role the designer plays in shaping a user’s interactive experience.
8 個視頻 （總計 53 分鐘）, 4 個閱讀材料, 1 個測驗
8 個視頻
Static to Active1分鐘
Functionality8分鐘
Speed and Style7分鐘
Composition and Structure7分鐘
Buttons7分鐘
Not Buttons12分鐘
States and Changes7分鐘
4 個閱讀材料
Try it Yourself: Define the Interaction15分鐘
Pattern Libraries10分鐘
Designing Better Buttons10分鐘
Try it Yourself: Examine an interface10分鐘
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4Composing the Elements of Interface Design
This week we are going to take our individual interface components and see what happens when we try to put them together into a more complex structure. We’ll be looking at how to get our components to work harmoniously as a family, figuring out how hierarchy works in the interface, and discussing conventions and expectations of contemporary interface design. We’ll also be examining how to navigate to different screens and how to build visual relationships between different kinds of content within a single site. Finally, we’ll be discussing different platforms, how to create variable content for different screen sizes, and looking at how to organize complex bodies of content into user-friendly structures.
7 個視頻 （總計 41 分鐘）, 2 個閱讀材料, 1 個測驗
7 個視頻
Invisible Complexity: Making a Whole from Many Parts2分鐘
Hierarchy of Content7分鐘
Conventions and Expectations6分鐘
Structure and Grids10分鐘
Platforms and Screen Sizes4分鐘
Putting it All Together: Slice 'n' Dice7分鐘
2 個閱讀材料
Try it yourself: UI Inventory20分鐘
Next Steps2分鐘
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創建者 JN•Nov 21st 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.
創建者 LC•Oct 19th 2018
This course is a good start for the beginner. I hope everyone in the class enjoyed it as I do. Thanks all of my classmates who have reviewed my peers. I look forward seeing you in the next course.
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Michael Worthington
Faculty, Program in Graphic DesignSchool of Art
關於 California Institute of the Arts
CalArts has earned an international reputation as the leading college of the visual and performing arts in the United States. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater—CalArts has championed creative excellence, critical reflection, and the development of new forms and expressions.
關於 UI / UX Design 專項課程
The UI/UX Design Specialization brings a design-centric approach to user interface and user experience design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective, rather than on one focused on marketing or programming alone. In this sequence of four courses, you will summarize and demonstrate all stages of the UI/UX development process, from user research to defining a project’s strategy, scope, and information architecture, to developing sitemaps and wireframes. You’ll learn current best practices and conventions in UX design and apply them to create effective and compelling screen-based experiences for websites or apps.
User interface and user experience design is a high-demand field, but the skills and knowledge you will learn in this Specialization are applicable to a wide variety of careers, from marketing to web design to human-computer interaction.
Learners enrolled in the UI/UX Design Specialization are eligible for an extended free trial (1 month) of a full product suite of UX tools from Optimal Workshop. Details are available in Course 3 of the Specialization, Web Design: Strategy and Information Architecture.
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What tools or software will I need to complete this course?
Since this is a graphic design course, to complete the assignments you will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with the appropriate software installed. You can't really do graphic design work properly on a smartphone or tablet. Adobe CC software is recommended for these courses, but alternatives are available. Software will be reviewed in greater detail in the first week of the course.
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