University of California, San Diego
At the University of California San Diego, we prefer the path less traveled. And it has led us to remarkable new ways of seeing and making a difference in the world.
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User Experience: Research & Prototyping
About this Course What makes for a great user experience? How can you consistently design experiences that work well, are easy to use and people want to use? This course will teach you the core process of experience design and how to effectively eva...
Bioinformatics Specialization
COURSE 1 Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I) Coming soon Commitment 4-10 hours/week About the Course A genome may look like an incomprehensible string of the letters A, C, G, and T. Yet hidden in the three billion nucleotides of y...
Hadoop Platform and Application Framework
This course is for novice programmers or business people who'd like to understand the core tools used to wrangle and analyze big data. With no prior experience, you'll have the opportunity to walk through hands-on examples with Hadoop and...
Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners
Are you interested in learning how to program (in Python) within a scientific setting? This course will cover algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you implement these algorithms in...
Social Computing
People are social creatures and the modern Internet reflects that. Technology has made collaboration at a distance possible in new ways that present their own set of challenges. This course will introduce you to the major challenges and opportunities...
Graph Analytics for Big Data
Want to understand your data network structure and how it changes under different conditions? Curious to know how to identify closely interacting clusters within a graph? Have you heard of the fast-growing area of graph analytics and want to learn mo...
Our Energy Future
This course is designed to introduce students to the issues of energy in the 21st century – including food and fuels – which are inseparably linked – and will discuss energy production and utilization from the biology, engineering, economics, climate...
Learn how to design great user experiences
You will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You'll learn how to generate design ideas, techniques for quickly prototyping them, and how to use prototypes to get feedback from other stakeholders like...
Internet of Things: Sensing and Actuation From Devices
Have you wondered how information from physical devices in the real world gets communicated to Smartphone processors? Do you want to make informed design decisions about sampling frequencies and bit-width requirements for various kinds of sensors? Do...
Input and Interaction
Input and Interaction is course 4 of 8 in the Interaction Design Specialization. You will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You'll learn how to generate design ideas, techniques for quickly protot...
Interaction Design Capstone Project
Apply the skills you learned during the sequence of courses — from needfinding to visual design — as you redesign a new interface, service, or product for your Interaction Design Capstone Project. We're working with some exciting de...
Information Design
A blank canvas is full of possibility. If you have an idea for a user experience, how do you turn it into a beautiful and effective user interface? This covers covers principles of visual design so that you can effectively organize and present inform...