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.
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完成時間大約為16 小時
英語（English）
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Adobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Indesign
學生職業成果
32%
完成這些課程後已開始新的職業生涯
34%
通過此課程獲得實實在在的工作福利
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100% 在線
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第 1 門課程（共 4 門）
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初級
完成時間大約為16 小時
英語（English）
字幕：英語（English）
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加州艺术学院
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.
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完成時間為 29 分鐘
Course 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.
完成時間為 29 分鐘
2 個視頻 （總計 6 分鐘）, 7 個閱讀材料
7 個閱讀材料
About this course3分鐘
About the assignments3分鐘
Forum Guidelines5分鐘
Requesting Peer Reviews5分鐘
Academic Integrity2分鐘
Required Tools2分鐘
About CalArts and the Program in Graphic Design3分鐘
完成時間為 2 小時
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!
完成時間為 2 小時
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
完成時間為 4 小時
Formal 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.
完成時間為 4 小時
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
完成時間為 5 小時
Active 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.
完成時間為 5 小時
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
完成時間為 5 小時
Composing 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.
完成時間為 5 小時
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
審閱
4.8
來自VISUAL ELEMENTS OF USER INTERFACE DESIGN的熱門評論
由 BB 提供Mar 31, 2020
This course is very useful for a beginner who is looking for the basics of UI/UX course.\n\nThis course will give you the basic idea of interface design which very important for its advanced studies.
由 JN 提供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.
由 RK 提供Dec 26, 2018
I have been a logical person, since my life. Always loved engineering related things. This is the first time, I tried for design related stuff...! Thanks..! for letting me know, I can do it...
由 NL 提供Mar 27, 2020
I really enjoyed doing this course and learnt a lot. I had absolutely no knowledge about working on any of the adobe apps and designing, so this course is very good for beginners like me.
由 KH 提供Mar 24, 2020
It was my first UI/UX experience and it was amazing. I had so much fun and learnt so many things. I wish it could be longer. I'm kind of missing uni times :P Thank you so much for it!
由 OT 提供Oct 16, 2019
its so interesting and i am full of hope to become a better citizen of my country and world at large...i am so happy that at the end of this course i will become a ui and ux designer.
由 ZC 提供Mar 30, 2020
This course is really, I have learn good design thinking and approach to different design angle.\n\nI really recommend this course to whom who want to have a special inside about UI.
由 EM 提供Sep 22, 2019
The course is great at getting the user a good start in learning about interface design. The community seems a bit small with only a few people posting and engaging in the forums.
由 PS 提供Mar 14, 2019
Very useful course, Highly recommended for beginners who is going to kick start with UI/UX design. Very detailed content and explanation. Thanks for the such a wonderful course.
由 AB 提供Oct 2, 2019
I really enjoyed this course. I love the way Michael Worthington explains everything and I love the fact that we have more videos than reading, to me it's easier to understand.
由 SG 提供Jun 23, 2019
This course will take you through the details of building a user friendly interface. I loved completing the assignments each week that finished a big project at the end.
由 DD 提供Jun 9, 2019
This course was great to learn the basic aspects of design UI. Overall good course enjoyed it. I'd highly suggest for people who wanted to start on the field of UI/UX.
由 LB 提供Jul 7, 2019
Good basics on UI design. As I have previously studied design, it was rather simple, but for those not familiar with the concepts I imagine it would be quite helpful.
由 CY 提供Feb 25, 2020
Awesome course structure with the peer review system. We can learn from reviewing our peer's artwork and reflect on our own by absorbing suggestions from our peers.
由 EJ 提供Nov 9, 2018
It was very first online certification. It went awesome everything was very well organised and distribution of the whole content was very clear and well arranged.
由 AS 提供Mar 5, 2019
Simple, easy to follow and understand and something that can be very useful to even professionals. Revisitng the basics has helped me become better as a designer!
由 DA 提供Mar 15, 2020
Great course! It shares the basic concepts of interface design in a plain way but engaging, guiding you through the stages of designing the look of your own app.
由 AC 提供Jan 24, 2019
Love it. The instructor is wonderful and incredibly clear even for such complex topics as UI/UX and their relation. I can't wait to start the following course.
由 GG 提供Aug 18, 2019
Awesome course, very informative without overloading. It would be great if the reviews were slightly more actionable, but I realise that's harder to implement.
由 BB 提供Feb 26, 2019
Loved the content, Specially the readings that involved so much information and the step by step guidance to design an engaging and well structured interface.
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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