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The Design of Everyday Things
Udacity
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2013 · score 0.7
A Udacity course based on Don Norman's book The Design of Everyday Things, covering human-centered design principles such as affordances, feedback, and how everyday objects and interfaces succeed or fail users.
Commenters are drawn to it because of Udacity's course quality and Don Norman's direct involvement in the updated version.
Design & Creativebeginnerfreeinteractive MOOC#design#usability#human-centered design#don norman#interaction design
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The quality of Udacity courses combined with an updated "Design of Everyday Things" plus Don Norman's direct involvement makes this course sound very attractive. The Udacity "Introduction to Computer Science" course by David Evans, by the way, is excellent. It is the one that I chose for by sons to take online this summer. I liked the balance it provided between pragmatic programming (Python exercises completed and evaluated in-browser) and CS fundamentals (BNF introduced in first lesson, for example). This new design course may have to be next on their list.